Fedora Core 2 Tips and Tricks
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Pat Williams19-May-2008 23:01
cool site.
Richard07-Mar-2007 11:13
Thanx, this page is great, i am going to bite the bullet and remove windows from my IBM t20 laptop and put FC2 on there, its a crappy lappy i dont think it will support FC5 or FC6 so Im dropping to an older version.
Will be using this page quite a lot to get back up and running, anyone got any good resources for setting up wireless lan with a belkin PCMCIA wireless card (possibly with NDISWRAPPER)??
I remember i set up a FC4 box once and ended up giving it up as a bad job it was working great, had apache webserver on it and was on wireless lan (Belkin PCI wireless adapter) then one day it kept droppingof fthe network for no reason, I am sure something happend in the nightly YUM updates that screwed over my NDISWRAPPER installation, anyway i never did get it working again and endind up stripping it out for parts.
I am dying to get back into linux again and if anyone knows about that problem and had it before i;d be grateful for some feedback.
Richard
A windows junkie that wants to kick the licenced software habit and go Opensource.
PS already uninstalled MS office from my wintel pc and using Openoffice for Win32. Great little program, and free!!!
Brittany29-Jun-2006 11:04
Your page was really helpful, it the first that I have been to where everything is so simple I haven't had any problems with it. It worked just the way I wanted it to. Thanks!!
Rob30-Dec-2004 08:16
Many thanks to Les also - a great howto. I too was getting so pis*** off with up2date. I followed your instructions and it all went like a dream, Im getting more confident with linux by the day esp with such good and clear help.
I want to get enlightenment going too (thats what led me to this thread). Fluxbox went in sweet, so Im keen to look at other GUIs now..
Linux - its all about choice (oh and no monopolies of course). =:-)
alan bruce24-Oct-2004 05:27
Excellent howto. I had no end of problems with up2date, mainly reams of python errors :-\
Followed your directions and yum sprang into action !
Open-Office is a pain at over 100MB but at least its getting done !
linuxles08-Oct-2004 06:13
You really shouldn't be using up2date to keep your FC2 installations up to date. YUM has been a part of Fedora since Core1, and works so much better. There is only one caveat, it is painfully slow when connecting to Redhat's site. So the first thing to do is to make a backup of the /etc/yum.conf file; "cp -p /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.orig", then go to the freshrpms website and download and install the YUM rpm.
For FC2 it is located at: http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/ scroll to the bottom of the page, and select YUM. This will take you to the YUM rpm download page. Select the small floppy icon image to download the rpm. Then open a shell, switch to root, and cd into the download directory and install the rpm with "rpm -Uvvh yum-(latest_version_number).rpm". This will update your default YUM to point to the YUM repository on FreshRPMS. Then to keep your system up to date, it's just a matter of typing "yum update" (as root). This will update all of your installed packages to the latest including security & bug fixes.
If you want to install "mplayer" it's as simple as typing "yum install mplayer". YUM handles all dependencies. If you need "xmms-mp3" (which is not installed by default) just type "yum install xmms-mp3". To get a list of available packages "yum list | more", this will return a list of all installed and available packages. If you only want a list of the available updates, type "yum list updates". You can also do things like "yum list perl*".
BTW, the first time you run YUM, it will take a while, cause it will have to download all of the latest headers. Also there is a GPG key available here: http://freshrpms.net/packages/builds/index.html?build=yum you'll probably want to install it too. There are more options, type "man yum".
HTH,
/Les
Kiwi-Hawk27-Sep-2004 03:45
Hi again
Is anybody running Enlightenment under Fedora 2 at all.
I have it installed but the Gnome desktop keeps getting in the way and the whole thing become a mess the other thing I notice is my USB device's load but if I unplug them and plug them back in they setup on a new dev/sd and don't always seem to load right from the second time on
Cheers
Pete
Pete21-Sep-2004 01:53
I have to say I'm impressed to find all this help on comming back to installing Fedora.
My thought was as I have some NTFS partitions ( and I have done the NTFS thing before) that are dynamic drives will they be seen I know part; magic and all those wizzy tolls can't seal to dynamic drives if the NTFS fix above can't then I need to rebuild all my drives first. don't get me wrong I'm hoping for the day when I DON'T need windoz but at this point I still need it for my R 'n' R (Morrowwind) and a couple of things
Cheers
Kiwi-Hawk
Retro14-Sep-2004 23:09
This site helped me switching over from windows. thanks a ton. only thing i could add would be to get gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio so you can encode mp3s as well as decode them.
foobar09-Sep-2004 15:28
Hey, why is gtk2 from all these repositories so OLD.
can someone add a ximian repository?
Fedora_Man05-Sep-2004 20:00
Hey guys if you want Realplayer for Linux, Just go to the Real.com Site. I went there, and it gives you the file to download, and the instalaiton instructions. Very Easy! Took me 10 mins!
Alec Habig03-Sep-2004 11:54
Well worth checking back occasionally (the highlighting is a nice touch, thanks!).
Tried the new RealPlayer 10, not only does it work, but one can now get rid of the openmotif21 libraries too, as this version is gtk based.
I\'m Wearing a Red Hat28-Aug-2004 19:16
Thank you so much, Greg, for keeping this page updated. It truly is a nice thing to do a Google search for "Fedora Core 2 Tips & Tricks" and get this page at the top of the list! Your noble efforts are greatly appreciated. ;-)
ErRoNeUs24-Aug-2004 15:59
http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mplayer/
This is a nice site to get the latest FC2 RPMs for mplayer. Just downloaded them and "rpm -Uvh *" and it worked nicely. Dunno what it would take to persuade them to make it available to up2date...
Darko24-Aug-2004 03:40
Thanks,
mingotta17-Aug-2004 16:18
Thanks, this page made me save a lot of precious time!
It's great because you keep it updated!!
GazziNet12-Aug-2004 13:25
Thanks..., your note is fantastic.
Now mp3 is ok , and dvd ok.
Thanks
GazziNet
jas11-Aug-2004 17:25
for rhythmbox (default "Music Player" in fedora core 2), xmms-mp3 will not be enough. you will also need to add an mp3 plugin for gstreamer (backend which rhythmbox uses by default), and its dependencies, mad and id3. so add these in as well, using up2date:
% up2date gstreamer-plugins-mp3 libmad libid3tag
now your rhythmbox should be able to play mpg's (and icecast/shoutcast online streams which use mp3).
encompass10-Aug-2004 09:56
Time was saved fallowing your direction. Thank you,
yocoycatl07-Aug-2004 14:15
thanks for having this available. I am learning and am glad to find someplace that doesnt assume I am a linux programmer.
Josef
ig04-Aug-2004 10:42
Thanks for taking the time to put this together, it definitely helped me out :)
KD19-Jul-2004 22:16
Your site is of great value. Finally I am able to mount my ntfs partition.
Thanks much
KD
Kamina17-Jun-2004 15:41
I'm having the same problem with xmms-mp3 and flash-player, they are not being found.
Could it have something to do with this being the A64 distro?
using mirror: http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/x86_64/
hellmkr17-Jun-2004 07:04
It seems that the xmms-mp3 plug in can't be found same goes for flash plugin is it removed ?
Krishnamoorthi.BM12-Jun-2004 14:09
I find this page to be very useful. I thank the author for giving such tips. - Krishnamoorthi.BM.
mark10-Jun-2004 16:33
I can't seem to get mplayer to work. I've added every sources list and GPG key in the above naratives. Here is what I get from apt-get (below). I think that all of the files are there, they just won't install because of GPG keys. Is there any way to disable this GPG stuff? Thanks for any help.
[root@localhost apt]# apt-get install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
aalib (1.4.0-5.1.fc2.fr)
faad2 (2.0-1.1.fc2.fr)
lame (3.96-1.1.fc2.fr)
libfame (0.9.1-1.1.fc2.fr)
libpostproc (1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr)
lirc (0.6.6-2.1.fc2.fr)
lzo (1.08-3.1.fc2.fr)
mplayer-fonts (1.1-2.1.fc2.dag)
xvidcore (1.0.1-1.1.fc2.fr)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aalib (1.4.0-5.1.fc2.fr)
faad2 (2.0-1.1.fc2.fr)
lame (3.96-1.1.fc2.fr)
libfame (0.9.1-1.1.fc2.fr)
libpostproc (1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr)
lirc (0.6.6-2.1.fc2.fr)
lzo (1.08-3.1.fc2.fr)
mplayer (1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr)
mplayer-fonts (1.1-2.1.fc2.dag)
xvidcore (1.0.1-1.1.fc2.fr)
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 removed and 20 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9303kB of archives.
After unpacking 27.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Checking GPG signatures...
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/aalib_1.4.0-5.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/faad2_2.0-1.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/lame_3.96-1.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libfame_0.9.1-1.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libpostproc_1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/lirc_0.6.6-2.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/lzo_1.08-3.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/xvidcore_1.0.1-1.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer-fonts_1.1-2.1.fc2.dag_noarch.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#6b8d79e6)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_1.0-0.10.pre4.1.fc2.fr_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#e42d547b)
E: Error(s) while checking package signatures:
0 unsigned package(s)
10 package(s) with unknown signatures
0 package(s) with illegal/corrupted signatures
ravuri s09-Jun-2004 18:33
hi,
With RH-9 I am unable to activate the sound-card on my Toshiba stallite 5200 laptop. Any help would be great!
rsc
SeaEye03-Jun-2004 21:52
I was able to get mplayer installed on FC2 by using apt-get. I don't konw if anyone else is still having this problem, but the following worked for me. First I had to install the specific version of libpostproc that mplayer wants by executing:
apt-get install libpostproc=0:1.0-0.lvn.0.10.pre4.2
Then the instructions in the mplayer section above worked for me(using apt-get instead of up2date)...HTH
jr01-Jun-2004 04:58
Those of us who are too far from the official servers (like in Europe) should use mirrors. I had a lot of trouble when I used the official server, but local mirrors are fast.
To set up, just look up your mirror from:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
And replace the official servers in the following file:
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
Thereafter your up2date will also use the local servers and get the job done quickly.
good luck
Stephen31-May-2004 05:29
Up2date is very frustrating in Europe, it almost never works. Its so slow. Even with tweaks its still slow. Sigh, I have tried long and hard to get it to cooperate.
(Mind you mine crashed with multiple python errors, which is new)
Mind you the info provided here is great and can just as easily be utilised by installing the "apt" package from fedora.us and selecting appropriate European mirrors, and adding in the multimedia stuff from livna
Apt is fast and very reliable if you use a compatible set of repositories, ive used it also with debian linux.
"apt-get install" is the same as up2date
Chad30-May-2004 10:29
Call me crazy (or just a newbie), but I can't seem to get hold of the mplayer app. When I do:
up2date mplayer mplayerplug-in mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts
I get:
using mirror: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/2/i386/os/
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
using mirror: http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-2...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc2...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: macromedia-macromedia...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: livna-stable...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-us-stable-fc2-stable...
Fetching rpm headers...
Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
The following packages you requested were not found:
mplayer
mplayerplug-in
mplayer-gui
mplayer-skins
I don't believe any of the mirrors actually contain the mplayer rpm update. Or is it me?
Moritz Barsnick28-May-2004 07:18
DAG's repository now (since May 17 2004) hosts j2re packages actually built for FC2. So your command line should read:
rpm -ihv j2re-1.4.2-5.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-5.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm
(I have also prompted Dag to build newer pacakges using j2re-1.4.2_04 instead of 1.4.2_03.)
Dennis27-May-2004 11:34
Freshrpms has the gstreamer rpms to get mp3 working in rhythmbox and totem-gstreamer.
See: http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/
vivek sekhar22-May-2004 02:44
I was wondering if anyone else had issues getting mplayer installed? It requires libaa.so.1 and liblzo.so.1 and i can't seem to find a way to get these installed with the livna/.us repository combination :(
Jason Blevins21-May-2004 10:43
Freshrpms has a good mplayer and DAG has a good mplayerplug-in. Both worked out-of-the-box for me. Be careful about mixing these repositories with fedora.us though, I don't know what will happen. I only use dag/freshrpms/newrpms. Here are my sources.list entries for apt:
### freshrpms
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 freshrpms
#rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 tupdates
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 freshrpms
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 tupdates
### Dag Apt Repository for Red Hat Fedore Core 2
rpm http://apt.sw.be fedora/2/en/i386 dag
#rpm-src http://apt.sw.be fedora/2/en/i386 dag
### newrpms
rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc2 newrpms
#rpm-src http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc2 newrpms
I believe they allow yum access as well.
milosk21-May-2004 09:50
Instead of RealPlayer9 try the new HelixPlayer or RealPlayer 10 Alphas
https://player.helixcommunity.org/
RESPONSE: I'd love to, however I can't get it to play any Real media
Chuck Vose20-May-2004 12:11
best way to view most files is actually in Totem. Totem has a nice easy interface and works well with the mplayer codecs (which are findable on the website). This will probably solve almost any video related ills you have.
Codecs live in: ~/.gnome2/totem-addons
eelco20-May-2004 09:23
Installing realplayer: how about https://player.helixcommunity.org/ ? There's an open source player that doesn't do real, but they also have a closed source player for playing real things. And it's GTK.
RESPONSE: Because I wasn't able to get it to work. If you know how to get it installed easily let me know so I can update this page
Ani16-May-2004 17:05
yum is supported by fedora.us
for example
yum fedora-us-stable-fc2 http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable