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  • Written by Carlisle
  • Edited by EKashi

This document is a draft and currently a work in progress. Heading begining with a '*' have not been updated to reflect Fedora Core 6 Yet.

--Carlisle 08:19, 18 Jan 2007 (PST)

Disclaimer

Please don't try any of these suggestions on important systems without researching and understanding what they do first.

History

started on 24 Oct 2006

Reporting errors

Fedora Core 6 has been released

[ codename: Zod All kneel! :) ]

The official announcement: http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1719

The official download site: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

The official torrent site: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Release summary: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary

Statistics of use: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

Downloads

Always double check your downloads against the official checksums to ensure the images do not have errors either due to transfer problems, or hacked mirror sites. Use command: sha1sum --check <file> where file in these cases in SHA1SUM

Live CDs

The official Fedora Core 6 Live CD is found here: ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/live

Live Spins

http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/fedora-core-6-zod-live-spins-released

Livna

many useful application which are not open source are found in the livna repository: http://rpm.livna.org/

Instructions to install livna are found here: 

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna

Enabling Livna at install time

http://fedorasolved.org/installation-solutions/livna-setup-install/

Solving Known Bugs

Java

Note: Sun has announced that they will be releasing Java under GPL which may mean that linux distributions like Fedora will include Sun Java within their normal packages. This has not occured at the time this article was written so the instuctions explain how to install from the non-GPL Java releases.

Problems have been report when installing the sun java rpm package on Fedora Core 4 and above. The release notes for Fedora Core 4 recommend either installing the sun java binary or creating a sun java rpm using the jpackage repository.

Installing java binary

The "quick and dirty" approach installs the java jre binary into either /opt or /usr/local and does not try to integrate java into the rpm database. This is the fastest method to get java installed on a single computer.

Creating java rpm

The "jpackage" approach uses rpm wrappers provided by the jpackage project. It is up to the user to combine the java binary with the rpm wrapper to create a jpackage compatible rpm package. This method is required if one is going to use other package provided by jpackage. It also can be faster than the binary install if one has multiple computer to install java onto. A Java rpm can be created one and installed many times.

  • install rpmdevtools if needed. Note: this depends on gcc and related development tools - If you do not wish for development tools to be installed, please use an alternative system to create the rpm packages.
  • once rpmdevtools are installed, run the command rpmdev-setuptree to create the build tree.

The instructions provided in the above link are for Java 1.5.0.09, which has now been reported to have a serious security issue. As of the writing of this article, the most recent version of Java is 1.6.0 and the most recent version of Java5 is 1.5.0.10

The following instructions apply to Java 1.5.0.10

Other Java References

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Java.html http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ

Multimedia

Flash

Flash Player 9 for linux was released on 16 Jan 2007.

Yum repository info is here: http://macromedia.mplug.org/rep_uh.html

Once the repository is enabled, install flash with the command: 

yum install flash-plugin

http://macromedia.mplug.org/site_uh.html

Download Plugin or Standalone Player: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

Install notes: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

Release notes: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/

Display current version of flash: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/19/012230

Also, even if you aren't running linux, you should be running the latest version of flash due to a nasty security bug found a while ago.

Also for people who want to block flash while using firefox, you can install the the Flashblock extension: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ or the Noscript extension: http://www.noscript.net, which also blocks Javascript and Java applets.

Mplayer

mplayer

mplayer codecs
http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutions/win32-codecs/

Reference: http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutions/win32-codecs/

VLC

Playing DVDs

Other FC6 References

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