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# My cheatsheet This is my cheatsheet for setting up distribution using rpm (mainly Fedora & CentOS). I am more experienced with distributions using dpkg, so I need this a little in the beginning. ## Always get the fastest mirror ``` yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror ``` By default cheks every 10 days, change configuration variable "maxhostfileage" file to 0 to make it search always when yum is ran in /etc/yum/yum.pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf and check that "enabled" is set to "1". If it's 0, the plugin is disabled. ## 3rd party repositories
Repository My priority Description
Base/Fedora-* 1 Official Fedora/CentOS packages
Extra 2 CentOS only, extra packages
[Flash] 10 Adobe Flash, shouldn't conflict with EPEL and EPEL is CentOS only.
[EPEL] 10 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (CentOS only)
[RPM Fusion] 11 "Provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship"
[Livna] 11 Provides libdvdcss for watching DVDs
[RPM Forge] 12 CentOS only ( ? ), "Provides a set of repositories"
### Terminal enabling This is faster than the GUI method ### Fedora ``` echo "Adobe doesn't provide direct download link for the package :(" rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm ``` ### CentOS ``` echo "Adobe doesn't provide direct download link for the package :(" rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel//i386/repoview/epel-release.html # replace with CentOS / RedHat version. For example: 5 or 6 NOT 6.X or 5.X! rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates//i386/rpmfusion-free-release--1.noarch.rpm # Read the comment on line above rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates//i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release--1.noarch.rpm # The line two lines above tells you what to do... rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el.rf..rpm # Replace with CentOS version (examples some lines above) and with i686 or x86_64 ``` ## Priorities Prevent repositories from conflicting each other: ``` yum install yum-plugin-priorities ``` Ensure that it's enabled by looking at /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf ! "enabled" should be 1 Edit all .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and add PRIORITY=X to everything. My priorities are listed on same table as repositories themselves. ## Installing Virtualbox guest additions ``` yum install dkms # requires some of the 3rd party repositories, EPEL on CentOS. ``` ``` yum install VirtualBox-guest # Fedora only ( ? ) Requires RPM Fusion ``` Or using guest additions shipped with [VirtualBox]; ``` yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install kernel-devel ``` Press HOST + D and cd to the mount point and run the Linux Additions installer and after successful installation, reboot ## Installing LibreOffice (for people not installing from DVD) in Fedora ``` yum groupinstall office ``` ## Installing Finnsh language and replacing "finnish" or "fi" with your native language ``` yum groupinstall finnish-support ``` or with KDE ``` yum install kde-l10n-fi ``` ## Installing all Gnome shell extensions ``` yum install gnome-tweak-tool "gnome-shell-extension-*" # This might not be a good idea. ``` Use gnome-tweak-tool to enable/disable them. They might need reboot/logging in again before they appear in gnome-tweak-tool. ## Installing all codecs/gstreamer plugins ``` yum install "gstreamer-plugins-*" --skip-broken # Might not be a good idea... ``` ## Installing Flash ``` yum install flash-plugin # requires Adobe Flash repository to be enabled. ``` ## Installing NVidia restricted drivers ``` yum install kmod-nvidia # requires RPM Fusion ``` ## Installing (restricted?) miscellaneous things Codecs, restricted font technologies etc. ``` yum install audacious-plugins-freeworld k3b-extras-freeworld xine-lib-extras-freeworld libdvdcss vlc mozilla-vlc unrar freetype-freeworld ```
Some commands mentioned here are copied from [Linux.fi] wiki, but it's in Finnish.
[Flash]:https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ [EPEL]:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F [RPM Fusion]:http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration [Livna]:http://rpm.livna.org/ [RPM Forge]:http://repoforge.org/use/ [VirtualBox]:https://www.virtualbox.org/ [Linux.fı]:http://linux.fi/wiki/Etusivu

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