Comments on: Fedora Post-installation Configurations

By: How to Make High Quality DVD Rips with H.264 (x264), chapter breaks, Matroska, MP4 :: Avi Alkalay

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:16:28 +0000

[...] On Linux: use MPlayer or Xine (or variants as Kaffeine, GMPlayer, KPlayer, KMPlayer) available from your Linux distribution’s package repositories. For example, see the instructions to get them on a Fedora installation. [...]

By: Avi

Avi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:07:48 +0000

Usefull link regarding a better use of yum

By: Pent

Pent — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:13:32 +0000

Font a rather recent guide that has a Centos5 section.
Might help others…

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=925868&postcount=1

By: Pent

Pent — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:05:26 +0000

Good howto, with a little skill, it can be adapted to any system… almost.
Right now I need some help on installing freetype-freeworld on CentOS5.1 if possible.
I would appreciate some guidance on that
Once I managed to find a newer EL5 freetype package and to rebuild it with BCI support, but now I’m stucked.

By: Zeroconf your Network :: Avi Alkalay

Zeroconf your Network :: Avi Alkalay — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:16:11 +0000

[...] Zeroconf got my attention when I installed Ubuntu Linux in one of my home PCs and it automatically started to show hostnames instead of IPs of my other home computers on the same DNS-less network. On my other Fedora Linux hosts, I had to manually install the avahi-tools and nss-mdns packages and I got the same functionality — as described in the Fedora Post-Installations Configurations. [...]

By: Czcionki TTF w F7 | Tak programistycznie

Czcionki TTF w F7 | Tak programistycznie — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:01:04 +0000

[...] chociaż ja polecam standardową czcionkę Fedory. Jeśli ktoś jest zainteresowany to na stronie można znaleźć czcionki z visty oraz parę innych pomocnych drobiazgów oraz porad. Pokój (No [...]

By: Czcionki TTF w F7 « tak programistycznie

Czcionki TTF w F7 « tak programistycznie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:42:28 +0000

[...] chociaż ja polecam standardową czcionkę Fedory. Jeśli ktoś jest zainteresowany to na stronie można znaleźć czcionki z visty oraz parę innych pomocnych drobiazgów oraz porad. [...]

By: Erwin Sucher

Erwin Sucher — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:44:03 +0000

Thank you very much for your help. The advices I found in your website helped me a lot.
I am an orthopedic surgeon in Jerusalem - Hadassah University Hospital - but I am working a lot with computerized stuff, trying to acquire more skills in linux.
Happy new year

By: Sun or IBM Java on Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, Etc :: Avi Alkalay

Sun or IBM Java on Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, Etc :: Avi Alkalay — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:08:27 +0000

[...] See also Fedora post-installation configurations. [...]

By: gianni

gianni — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:10:55 +0000

I think yuo had to enable freshrpm repo!!!!

Do not use livna & freshrpm togheter!!!

By: gianni

gianni — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:08:12 +0000

I install vlc and Mplayer only disabling livna repos with kyum.

By: Avi

Avi — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:35:19 +0000

FSSGI, packages were upgraded and some dependencies were broken.

Let me investigate and I’ll update this page in the next days.

By: FSSGI

FSSGI — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:13:14 +0000

Hi ,
When:
yum -y –disablerepo=livna install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in

I get the following:

Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package mplayerplug-in.i386 0:3.40-1.fc7 set to be updated
—> Package mplayer-skins.noarch 0:1.8-1 set to be updated
—> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated
—> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc7 set to be updated
–> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.55 for package: mplayer
–> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
–> Running transaction check
—> Package x264.i386 0:0.0.0-0.3.20070529.fc7 set to be updated
filelists.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 60 kB 00:00
–> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.54 for package: ffmpeg-libs
–> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.54 for package: vlc
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.54 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.54 is needed by package vlc

Any idea how I can fix this?

Thanks.

FS.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:06:42 +0000

Thanks for the very helpful howto on Fonts.
I recently installed Fedora 7 and on resolution of 1440 * 900 the fonts were looking very ugly till I visited this page

By: Will Woods

Will Woods — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:58:30 +0000

Fedora 7 already includes a set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the MS Web fonts, but big-F Free. Just “yum install liberation-fonts” if they’re not already installed.

You can get more info about ‘em here: http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/

By: Kevin Kofler

Kevin Kofler — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:14:11 +0000

Please apply the freetype-2.3.4-ttf-overflow.patch security fix from the official freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7!

By: fred

fred — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:36:17 +0000

Avi,
You are assuming too much technical skill and linux know-how from your target audience… the linux user that actually needs your help. These users will probably keep both repos enabled and screw up their system.

By: Avi

Avi — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:25:53 +0000

Fred, this is why I’m showing which package to get from each repo.

The commands above are certified to work. At least for now.

By: fred

fred — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:43:13 +0000

Mixing Freshrpms and Livna can lead to a world of pain.

Definitely NOT recommended.

By: Ssl

Ssl — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:03:44 +0000

Hi, yesterday one fedora installation here went wrong and the cause was using livna and freshrpms repositories at the same time. Steps to reproduce are: install f7, add both those repos and install mplayer using yumex. After that mplayer can’t start and is missing a tons of dependencies and is very very hard to fix. Using just freshrpms is enough for multimedia, at least here. Thanks for the font tip.

By: spot

spot — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:47:03 +0000

The kmod-ntfs doesn’t do read-write safely. ntfs-3g is a far better option.

By: Naheem

Naheem — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:07:05 +0000

For NTFS, ntfs-3g is installed by default. All you need to install is ntfs-config (it is unsigned atm, so you will have gpgcheck=0 until it is updated…) and run it. It can set up both read and write support for internal and external ntfs disks depending on what settings you use.

The kmod-ntfs method does read only as far as I know.

By: BarghWhy

BarghWhy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:54:01 +0000

I’ve been searching everywhere for a way to make my linux fonts look as good as windows, Thanks so much for the link to the BCI freetype RPM.

Ugly fonts was the one thing that keeps turning me off Linux.