Re: FC5 docs

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http://www.fedorafaq.org/ (a little outdated now, still talks about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




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