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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

AUTO PLUS for fedora

Autoplus

This is a simple program to make life easier and quicker for installing (also can unistall) those much needed extra's in fedora,
To install just copy below in a terminal (When asked for a password it is the root password required)

install / uninstall Adobe Flash, codecs, Google Earth, Skype, Sun Java, VirtualBox, WinFF, Imagination, Cinelerra, Hugin Panorama Creator, Lightscribe, Dropbox, extra backgrounds and sudo with or without password for current user. And of course, it also adds all the repositories required to install these applications.

su -c 'yum -y --nogpgcheck install http://dnmouse.org/autoplus-1.3-3.noarch.rpm'

If required here is the signing key(not necessary)


su -c 'rpm --import http://dnmouse.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-dnmouse'


taken from
http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/autoplus.html

Installing malayalam font in Fedora


  1. yum remove lohit-malayalam

  2. yum install scim-lang-malayalam

  3. su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update im-chooser'

  4. yum install ibus yum install smc-fonts*


download swanalekha-ml-1-1.fc8.i386.rpm from 
             http://wiki.smc.org.in/Swanalekha


  1. rpm -i swanalekha-ml-1-1.fc8.i386.rpm 

  2. yum update pango libic

  3. yum install aspell-ml swanalekha-ml

  4. yum install smc-fonts-malayalam xkeyboard-config dhvan NOW go to applications and select "select input method" and select ibus and its done

Monday, January 2, 2012

how to install firefox in fedora

first add the following repos to the yum by following the steps

first become root with su command and put the following 2 commands to download new rpm fusion in terminal

  1. rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

  2. rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm


now try

yum list firefox

if rpm fusion is installed correctly it wiil display current version of firefox installed and available updates

then to update

yum update firefox

 

its doneee