On Sunday 30 April 2006 1:10 pm, Stuart Sears wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
Hello!
welcome.
Although I'm very much a Fedora newbie, I have been using other Linux distros for some time and am OK with the "standard" operations.
However, I have got an FC5 magazine cover disk DVD and want to try Fedora for the first time. I've installed it and initial impressions are very good.
There are some things which I have not come across before, such as YAM, PIRUT, and PUP. I want to find out how to use these packages, how to add repositories to them, and which repositories to add. For example, I understand that I need to add livna in order to install an nvidia driver. (My LCD monitor is off-centre unless I use the nvidia driver, rather than the generic nv one.)
...or hit the auto-adjust button? :) livna we can deal with immediately, seeing as you asked. They package their yum setup as an RPM, so install it: rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org# Indexed Packages:
2207 /livna-release-5.rpm
The nvidia drivers are called kmod-nvidia. You will need to run a system update first as they will not work with the FC5 release kernel.
be careful adding repositories. Some conflict with others. Look at their websites first. Many of them tell you which repos they are designed to work with. Personally I use extras (comes already set up) livna (see above) kde-redhat (I'm a kde-weenie when I am not using fluxbox or similar) oh and the gstreamer-0.10 repos too (just to try them out, really)
There will be other things I will find which are new to me as well. Is there a manual on using Fedora which I could download and print out? I would rather do this than keep bombarding the list with basic questions. There is no document included on the DVD.
# Indexed Packages: 2207 not a manual as such, no. however there are some very good online docs. You could print a lot of them off I suppose. Please read the FAQs # Indexed Packages: 2207 first and search the
archives (or google).
After that, on the whole, any questions tend to be welcome here. There are a lot of folk here who will gladly answer you. try these first:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki http://www.fedorafaq.org/ (a little outdated now, still talks about FC4) http://www.fedoraforum.org
Regards
Stuart
Stuart.
Thank you very much for your help. You have given me a good start to get to know Fedora.
I have tried several distributions during the past 12 months, but most of them didn't last long on my hard drive. It looks as though Fedora will last!
The "auto-adjust" button on my monitor works with some distros, and centres the picture. But, there are some with which it doesn't work, and Fedora is one. That's why I would like to install the nvidia driver fairly quickly.
Cheers
Keith