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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 EPEL on CentOS. ``` ``` yum install VirtualBox-guest # Requires RPM Fusion ``` Or using guest additions shipped with [VirtualBox]; ``` yum install @development-tools kernel-devel ``` Press HOST + D and cd to the mount point and run the Linux Additions installer and after successful installation, reboot. These didn't work for me on Fedora 17, but worked on CentOS. With Fedora I recommend installing VirtualBox-guest from RPM Fusion. ## Installing LibreOffice & language support (for people not installing from DVD) in Fedora Remember to replace "finnish" and "fi" with your language ``` yum install @office @finnish-support 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 akmod-nvidia 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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