Fedora 10 Post Installation & Issues

1. Add RPM repositories for Google, Adobe and skype.

Run as root

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://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub rm linux_signing_key.pub


create a new file google.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d and add the below lines


[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

create a new file skype.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d and add the below lines

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

2. Install thunderbird using the below command

yum install thunderbird

3. Install audio drivers as below

Remove the totem and xine packages installed on your computer

yum remove totem totem-mozplugin totem-plparser xine xine-lib

Download and install the codecs from rpm.livna.org

yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree totem-xine

Download and install audacious

yum install audacious-plugins-nonfree-aac audacious-plugins-nonfree-alac audacious-plugins-nonfree-mms audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3 audacious-plugins-nonfree-tta audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma audacity-nonfree

Download and install the audio and video encoders for mpeg, avi

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs ffmpeg2theora gstreamer-ffmpeg

Download and install vlc

yum install vlc

Download and install adobe reader.

4. Setup GSynaptics to disable the Touch Pad.

Install GSynaptics software from the repository using the Add/Remove Programs

Now you need to let the X org server know about the new synaptics driver. In previous versions of Fedora and in various other Linux Distros to enable this feature we used to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the below line

Option "SHMConfig" "on"


But this option no longer works as there is no xorg.conf available in Fedora 10. So follow the below steps to achieve the same.


As root user,create a file named say, synaptics.fdi, in/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ using your favorite editor, and put the following there:


<br /><deviceinfo version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"><match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad"><merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo>


Now reboot your machine and goto System->Preferences->Hardware->Touchpad

There you can disable the touch pad.