Submitted by MadAdmin

Contents:

Installation
Firefox and Thunderbird
nVidia
True Type Fonts
Java
Flash
RealPlayer
A warning about mixing repositories
Yum
Apt and Synaptic
Acrobat Reader
MPlayer, Xmms, Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine
NTFS support
Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui
Azureus for bittorrent
Web Server
PHP and Perl
MySQL
phpMyAdmin
Resources

Installation:

• Download and burn the five Fedora Core 3 CDs from iso images from your nearest mirror site. (You should get FC3-i386-disc1.iso, FC3-i386-disc2.iso, FC3-i386-disc3.iso, FC3-i386-disc4.iso and FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso.)

• Partition your hard disk with something like one of the disk partition creation/editing tools on the System Rescue CD available at http://www.sysresccd.org/. You could also use a commercial product such as PartitionMagic. You may leave the partition that you wish to use for Fedora as unformatted space. The installation program will format this partition, create swap space within it, and make a directory structure.

• Configure your bios settings to boot first from the CD drive.

• Insert the first Fedora Core 3 CD and reboot your machine.

• At the boot prompt hit enter.

• Hit enter for "ok" to test your CD media or right arrow key and enter to skip this test. (I recommend testing your media to determine if your CDs are properly burned.)

• Click "next" at the "welcome" page.

• Click "next" at the "language selection" page for default English.

• Click "next" at the "keyboard configuration" page for default U. S. English.

• Select "custom" on the "installation type" page. Click "next".

• Select "automatically partition" on the "disk partitioning setup" page. Click "next". If you elect to manually edit your partition with Disk Druid, double click on the partition, select the "swap" file type, and configure your swap space size to equal about twice your computer's physical memory size. Double click on the remainder of the partition to configure it as a Linux ext3 file system. At minimum you must designate this remaining space (probably /dev/hda2) as the root "/" partition mount point.

• Select "keep all partitions and use existing free space" on the "automatic partitioning" page. Click "next".

• Click "next" on the "disk setup" page.

• Check the "other" check box on the "boot loader configuration" page. Click "edit". Type "Windows" in the "label" box and uncheck the "default boot target" check box. Click "ok".

• Click the "default" check box next to "Fedora Core" to make it your default boot operating system. Click "next".

• Leave "eth0" and hostname "automatically via DHCP" on the "network configuration" page. Click "next".

• Leave "enable firewall" selected on the "firewall configuration" page and click the check boxes for "ssh", "http", "https", "ftp" and "smtp". Leave "Enable SELinux" "active". Click "next".

• Click "next" at the "additional language support" page for default "English (USA)".

• Click on the map for your location on the "time zone selection" page. Click "next".

• Set your preferred root password on the "set root password" page. Click "next".

• You will see a message "reading package information".

• Scroll down the "package group selection" page and click in the "everything" box under "miscellaneous". Click "next". (There has been some criticism from some quarters regarding the fact that I recommend doing an "everything" installation. From my point of view there are several good reasons to do so: 1. There are many wonderful packages in a Fedora Core "everything" installation including a web server and all the packages needed to make it work with modern scripting language support. [I describe how to set up a web server with all the bells and whistles below.] Installing everything supplies the novice with a huge Linux playground containing thousands of great programs to explore. 2. If you install everything there will be no question that package dependencies and inter-dependencies are met. Everything will be there and everything will "just work" if you follow the yum and apt guidelines below. 3. Why not install everything? In this day and age bandwidth and disk space are cheap and plentiful.)

• You will see a message "checking dependencies..."

• Click "next" on "about to install" page.

• Click "continue" to get to the "installing packages" page. You will eventually be prompted to insert the remainder of the installation CDs. (It took about an hour to install "everything" on my system.)

• When the installation is complete remove the last CD and click "reboot" for the first boot screen.

• Click "next" on the "welcome" page.

• Click the appropriate radio button to agree to the license agreement and click "next".

• If you are already connected to an "always on" LAN or broadband connection click on the "network time protocol" tab, click in the "enable network time protocol" check box, click the down arrow in the "server" box, select "clock.redhat.com" , click "add" and click "next".

• On the "display" page select your preferred screen resolution and color depth based upon the capabilities of your monitor. Click "next".

• On the "system user" page choose a user name (in lower case, not "root"), a full name (any case), and a password for that default user. Click "next".

• Click "play test sound" on the "sound card" page to test your sound system. Your should hear three chords in sequence. If you don't you can try to configure your sound card later. Click "next".

• Click "next" on the "additional CDs" page.

• Click "next" on the "finish setup" page.

• Log in as "root" with the root password you selected earlier.

• Click "log in anyway" if a Gnome error message appears on first boot. We will correct this later.

• When Fedora finishes booting to the graphical interface click on the top panel, hold your left mouse button down, drag the top panel to the bottom of the screen, and release the mouse button.

• Click "Applications" > "System Tools". Right click on "Terminal" and select "Add this launcher to panel".

• Right click on the terminal icon on the bottom panel and select "move". Move the icon to the left near the separator bar and click to position it there.

• Click on the terminal icon. This will open the terminal.

• Type: gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf

• Revise the "hiddenmenu" and "kernel" lines in grub.conf so that your file looks like this: # grub.conf generated by anaconda
  #
  # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
  # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
  # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
  # root (hd0,1)
  # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
  # initrd /initrd-version.img
  #boot=/dev/hda
  default=1
  timeout=5
  splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
  #hiddenmenu
  title Memtest86+ v1.27
  kernel /memtest86+-1.27
  title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
  root (hd0,1)
  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=788 selinux=0
  initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
  title Windows
  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  chainloader +1 Disabling the "hiddenmenu" with the "#" comment and removing "rhgb quiet" from the kernel line will cause the menu to select Windows or Fedora to display immediately upon boot and will also disable the graphical boot screens so that you will see the boot sequence scroll by in text. You may also choose to disable SELinux by including "selinux=0" on the kernel line. Leave out the "selinux=0" if you wish to keep SELinux enabled. If you choose to use SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) there are two good articles about it at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/ and http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/. Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close it. Close the terminal.

• Click on "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services" and deselect system services that you will not immediately use. When you click on each of them you will see a description as to what they are for. If you're not sure, leave them in there. (I deselected "anacron", "apmd", "atd", "cpuspeed", "canna", "cups", "cups-config-daemon", "hpoj", "irqbalance", "mDNSResponder", "mdmonitor", "nfs", "nfslock", "nifd", "pcmcia", "rpcgssd", "rpcidmapd", "rpcsvcgssd" and "sendmail".) Click the "save" icon and close the service configuration screen.

• Open the terminal and type: gedit /etc/hosts Place your cursor after "localhost" and hit tab. Then type in the characters that appear on your root terminal screen after "root@" up to but not including the space and tilde (~). When you are finished, your hosts file should look something like this: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
  # that require network functionality will fail.
  127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close it. This will eliminate the Gnome error message that appears on boot-up on some systems.

• In the root terminal type: gedit /etc/modprobe.conf Add these lines to the bottom of the file: alias net-pf-10 off
  alias ipv6 off Add a carriage return if required. (There should be a blank line at the bottom of these files.) Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close it. This will speed up browsing and file transfers in some cases by decreasing DNS lookup time.

• Click on "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Login Screen". Click on the "login user automatically after a specified number of seconds" check box. Type your default user name that you selected during installation (lower case, not "root") in the "timed login username" box and select "5 seconds before login". Click "close".

• Click "Actions" > "Log Out" > "Restart the computer" and click "ok".

• After boot up you should be logged in as the default user. Click on the top panel, hold your left mouse button down, drag the top panel to the bottom of the screen, and release the mouse button.

• Click the red flashing up2date icon in the lower right. Click "launch up2date". Type in your root password and click "ok". Click "ok" again. Click on "yes" to install the key. Click "forward". Click "forward" again. After the headers are downloaded click on the "select all packages" check box and click "forward". You will see a progress dialog "testing package set / solving RPM dependencies". When this is complete the updates will be downloaded. (This may take a very long time depending upon your connection speed the first time you run up2date and you may think that your installation has hung but it actually has not. If you don't have the patience for this read the "Yum" section below and do a "yum update" as root instead.) Click "forward" to install the updates and "forward" again to complete. You may want to reboot at this time.

Firefox and Thunderbird:

• Firefox is now the default web browser in Fedora Core Linux and Thunderbird is included as an email client. For Thunderbird go to "Applications" > "Internet" > "Thunderbird Email". You can choose Thunderbird as your default email client by going to "Applications" > "Preferences" > "More Preferences" > "Preferred Applications" and selecting "Thunderbird Mail" in the drop-down menu under the Mail Reader tab.

nVidia: (Use this section only if you have an nVidia GeForce graphics card.)

• Log in as root.

• Type: gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf If you have not already done so, remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel line in grub.conf. Click the "save" button and then exit gedit. This will disable the "Red Hat Graphical Boot" at boot time which would otherwise interfere with the nVidia installation described below.

• Open Firefox (the "mouse and world" icon on the bottom left). Go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html and download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run. (Select "save to disk".) This should save the file to the /root directory.

• Open the terminal and type: gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf In the "module" section comment out (put a "#" in front of) load "dri" so that it reads # load "dri". In the "device" section change "nv" to "nvidia". Section "Module"
  Load "dbe"
  Load "extmod"
  Load "fbdevhw"
  Load "glx"
  Load "record"
  Load "freetype"
  Load "type1"
  # Load "dri"
  EndSection
  
  Section "Device"
  Identifier "Videocard0"
  Driver "nvidia"
  VendorName "Videocard vendor"
  BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
  EndSection Click the "save" icon and exit gedit.

• With the root terminal still open type: gedit /etc/rc.local At the end of the file add the line: /sbin/modprobe nvidia Add a carriage return as well if necessary to insure that there is a blank line at the bottom of the file. Click on the "save" icon and exit gedit. Close the terminal.

• Click "Actions" > "Log Out" > "Restart the computer" and click "ok". When Fedora reboots it will try to load the nVidia driver (which has been downloaded but not yet installed). You will see the command line login prompt 3 or 4 times as it continues to try to load the driver and then you will see a text mode screen with the message "...cannot start the x server...". Answer "no" (right arrow and enter) to the question "would you like to view the x server output?". Answer "no" to the question "would you like me to run the x configuration program?". Answer "ok" to "...disable the x server for now...". You will then be presented with a text mode command line login prompt. Log in as root, type "ls" and hit enter. You should see the nVidia driver file that you downloaded previously. Type: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run Hit enter. You will be presented with a text mode nVidia screen. Left arrow to "accept" and hit enter. Answer "yes" to "download...". Answer "ok" to "no matching kernel...". Answer "ok" to "warning - your kernel was...". Disregard the "rivafb" warning. It won't affect your installation. nVidia will build and install a kernel module for the nVidia driver. When the "...complete" screen appears hit enter on "ok", then type "reboot" and hit enter. You should see the nVidia splash screen when Fedora reboots indicating that the installation was successful.

• Now if you wish to get rhgb (Red Hat Graphical Boot) working again open a terminal and type: su - Hit enter, type your root password and hit enter. Type: cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices Hit enter. Type: chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia* Hit enter. Type: gedit /etc/rc.local Remove the "/sbin/modprobe nvidia" line from rc.local, click on the "save" icon, and exit gedit. Type: gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf Add "rhgb quiet" back into the kernel line in grub.conf, click on the "save" icon, and exit gedit. Reboot. (If you upgrade your kernel be sure to remove "rhgb quiet" from grub.conf before you reboot into the new kernel. Then you can re-install the nVidia driver per these instructions again for the new kernel.)

True Type Fonts:

• Open Firefox. Go to http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc3.shtml#ttf and download (save to disk) http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/files/msttcorefonts-1.3-3.noarch.rpm.

• Click on the terminal icon. This will open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter, type your root password and hit enter. (This gives you root privileges in the terminal even though you are still in the default user's home directory. Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: rm *.rpm Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. (This deletes the downloaded RPM file in your home directory, however the program is already installed into your system.) Close the terminal. Reboot your machine.

Java:

• Open Firefox. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html, click on Download J2SE JRE, click the radio button to accept the license agreement, click "continue", under "Linux Platform" click on "RPM in self-extracting file", to download j2re-1_4_2_07-linux-i586-rpm.bin.

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: sh *.bin Hold the enter key down until the yes/no line appears to allow you to agree to the license agreement. Type "yes" and hit enter. Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: rm *.rpm Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Type: rm *.bin Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Type: su - Hit enter. This gives you root privileges and also puts you in the /root directory. Type: ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so Hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart Firefox to enable the java plugin. You could go to http://rochester.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ and click the start button to test your java plugin installation.

• If you wish to run Java applications such as JAlbum or Azureus for bittorrent and you have installed the Sun J2SE JRE as described above, open a terminal and type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: gedit /etc/profile.d/java.sh Hit enter. In gedit type these lines: export J2RE_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07
  export PATH=$J2RE_HOME/bin:$PATH Be sure to enter a carriage return after these lines. Click on the "save" icon in gedit and exit gedit. In the terminal (which should still be open) type: source /etc/profile.d/java.sh Hit enter. Type: which java Hit enter. You should see: /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java Type: alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java 3 Hit enter. Type: alternatives --config java Hit enter. You should see: There are 3 programs which provide 'java'.
  
  Selection Command
  -----------------------------------------------
  1 /usr/share/java/libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
  *+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
  3 /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java
  
  Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: Type: 3 Hit enter. Type: /usr/sbin/alternatives --display java Hit enter. You should see: java - status is manual.
  link currently points to /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_07/bin/java
  ... You should now be able to install and run Java applications.

Flash:

• Open Firefox. Go to http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html and download (save to disk) the flash-plugin for Fedora Core 3.

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm Hit enter. Click "accept" in the license agreement windows that appears. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: rm *.rpm Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart Firefox to enable the flash plugin, go to http://www.argosycruises.com/flash.cfm to test your flash plugin installation.

RealPlayer:

• Open Firefox. Go to http://www.real.com/linux/ and download (save to disk) the RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm package.

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: rm *.rpm Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart Firefox to enable the RealPlayer plugin, go to http://www.npr.org/, click on "NPR Program Stream", select "Listen to NPR audio with the Real player" to test your RealPlayer plugin installation.

Special warning regarding mixing incompatible repositories for up2date, yum, apt, and synaptic:

• Before you continue please keep the following in mind: You should not use the livna.org/fedora extras repositories in conjunction with the dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge) collection of rpms in your configuration files for automatic updates. Use one group or the other but not both. You should be made aware that there are two “schools” of rpm packagers for Fedora Core extra applications. I refer to these as the “American” and “European” camps. The “American” camp consists of the livna.org/fedora extras repositories and the “European” camp consists of the dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge) repositories. One of the most common causes of errors and failures in a new Fedora Core installation is the mixing of these two incompatible repository collections for automatic updates. These two camps of rpm repositories are, for the most part, mutually exclusive and in some cases will cause serious errors in your installation if used together. It is unfortunate that these two groups have not found some common ground for consensus and have not gotten together and made their repositories compatible with one another. I myself subscribe to the “European” camp as you can see in my yum and apt repository selection instructions below. The dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms/PlanetCCRMA (RPMforge) repositories have provided me with all of the programs I have needed as additions to the Fedora base. Some additional information can be found here.

Yum:

• Open the terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo Type the following in gedit: [dag]
  name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
  baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
  enabled=1
  #gpgcheck=1 Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. Type the following in the root terminal: gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo Type the following in gedit: [core]
  name=FreshRPMS-Core
  baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
  enabled=1
  #gpgcheck=1
  #[extras]
  #name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - extras
  #baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/extras
  #enabled=0
  #gpgcheck=1
  #[alternatives]
  #name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - alternatives
  #baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/alternatives
  #enabled=0
  #gpgcheck=1
  [updates]
  name=FreshRPMS-Updates
  baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
  enabled=1
  #gpgcheck=1
  [freshrpms]
  name=FreshRPMS-Fresh
  baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
  enabled=1
  #gpgcheck=1 Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit.

• While still in the root terminal type: rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/*GPG-KEY* Hit enter. You have just imported the GPG keys for your yum repositories. Type: yum update Hit enter. Your system will be updated. Answer "y" for "yes" in the appropriate places. Reboot.

Apt and Synaptic:

• Enable the repositories as described above for Yum, then simply open a terminal and type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: yum install apt Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: yum install synaptic Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dag.list If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit: # Name: Dag RPM Repository
  # URL: http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
  
  ### Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
  rpm http://apt.sw.be fedora/3/en/i386 dag Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root terminal, type: gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freshrpms.list If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit: # Name: FreshRPMS
  # URL: http://ayo.freshrpms.net/
  
  ### Fedora Core
  rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 freshrpms Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root terminal, type: gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/newrpms.list If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit: # Name: NewRPMS
  # URL: http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/
  
  ### Fedora Core
  rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc3 newrpms Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root terminal, type: gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dries.list If there is nothing in this file (blank page), type the following in gedit: # Name: Dries RPM Repository
  # URL: http://dries.studentenweb.org/apt/
  
  ### Fedora Core
  rpm http://apt.sw.be dries/fedora/fc3/i386 dries Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. While still in the root terminal, type: rpm --import http://dries.studentenweb.org/ayo/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt Hit enter. Type: rpm --import http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/gpg-pubkey-newrpms.txt Hit enter. You have just imported the GPG keys for your apt repositories. Type: apt-get update Your apt repository package list will be updated. Close the terminal. Reboot.

• After you have rebooted go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Synaptic package manager". You will be asked to enter your root password. In Synaptic click on the "reload" icon to update your package list. You may now add programs to your Fedora Core installation by scrolling down the package list and checking appropriate check boxes for packages that you wish to add. When you are finished selecting them, click "apply".

Acrobat Reader:

• You must have Yum, Apt, and Synaptic configured as described above to implement this step. Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Synaptic package manager". You will be asked to enter your root password. In Synaptic click on the "reload" icon to update your package list. Scroll down the "all" list until you come to "acroread" and click its check box, then click "apply". Acrobat reader will be installed.

MPlayer, Xmms, Rhythmbox, Xine, and Kaffeine - all you need for multimedia:

• You must have Yum, Apt, and Synaptic configured as described above to implement this step. Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Synaptic package manager". You will be asked to enter your root password. In Synaptic click on the "reload" icon to update your package list. Scroll down the "all" list and click in the check boxes for "gstreamer", "gstreamer-devel", "gstreamer-plugins", "gstreamer-plugins-devel", "gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio", "gstreamer-tools", "kaffeine", "mplayer", "mplayer-fonts", "mplayer-skins", "xine", "xine-lib", "xine-lib-devel", "xine-skins", and "xmms-mp3". Then click "apply".

• Open "Applications" > "Sound & Video" > "Audio Player". (This is xmms.) Click on the upper left corner down arrow. Go to "Options" > "Preferences". Select "MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player..." and make sure that "Enable plugin" check box is checked. You may now play mp3s and streaming mp3 files with xmms (Audio Player) or if you like Rhythmbox (Music Player) you may use it to play your mp3 library. You could go to http://wholewheatradio.org/ to test your xmms mp3 installation. (The executable is /usr/bin/xmms.)

• Open Firefox, go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and download (save to disk) all-20050115.tar.bz2.

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: mkdir temp Hit enter. Type: mv *.bz2 temp Hit enter. Type: cd temp Hit enter. Type: tar xvfj *.tar.bz2 Hit enter. Type: cd all-20050115 Hit enter. Type: mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/ Hit enter. Type: cp *.* /usr/local/lib/codecs/ Hit enter. Type: cd /usr/local/lib/codecs/ Hit enter. Type: chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/* Hit enter. Type: ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32 Hit enter. Type: ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs The codecs for MPlayer, Xine and Kaffeine are now installed.

• Open Firefox, go to http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/3/RPMS.stable/ and download (save to disk) kaffeine-mozilla-0.2-0.2.3.kde.i386.rpm.

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: rpm -Uvh *.rpm Hit enter. rm *.rpm Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Close and restart Firefox to enable the Kaffeine plugin. Reboot.

NTFS support (for mounting your Windows partition):

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: uname -r -p This will output your kernel version and processor type.

• Open Firefox. Go to http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora3.html and download (save to disk) the appropriate NTFS RPM for your kernel version and processor type. (These instructions will help you find the correct RPM: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html.)

• With the root terminal still open type: rpm -ivh *.rpm Hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete. Type: rm *.rpm Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Type: su - Hit enter. Type: mkdir /mnt/windows Hit enter. Type: fdisk -l /dev/hda Hit enter. This will output your HPFS/NTFS partition identifier. Type: gedit /etc/fstab Type the following in gedit: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0 If your partition identifier is not "/dev/hda1" substitute the correct characters. Click the "save" icon in gedit and exit gedit. Close the terminal. Reboot. Your Windows partition should now be available in the file browser under "/mnt/windows".

Bittorrent and bittorrent-gui:

• Open Firefox. Go to http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/ and download (save to disk) wxPythonGTK2-2.5.2.8-1.fc3.i386.rpm, BitTorrent-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm, and BitTorrent-gui-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm.

• Open the terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: rpm -Uvh wxPythonGTK2-2.5.2.8-1.fc3.i386.rpm Hit enter. Type: rpm -Uvh BitTorrent-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm Hit enter. Type: rpm -Uvh BitTorrent-gui-3.4.2-3.fc3.noarch.rpm Hit enter. Type: su - Hit enter. Type: /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT Hit enter. This adds a rule to open TCP ports 6881 through 6999 in your firewall. These ports are required by Bittorent. Type: /sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables Hit enter. This saves the rule. Type: iptables -L Hit enter. This will output your iptables file so you can see if the rule was saved. Type: gedit /etc/mailcap Add these lines (and a carriage return) to /etc/mailcap: # bittorrent
  application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" This will allow you to download ".torrent" files with Firefox.

Azureus for bittorrent:

• In order to install Azureus you must have previously installed Java and configured it to run Java applications. (See above.) Open Firefox. Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84122 and download (save to disk) Azureus_2.2.0.2_linux.GTK.tar.bz2.

• Open the terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. If you have not already opened ports for bittorrent as described above Type: /sbin/iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 6881:6889 -j ACCEPT Hit enter. This adds a rule to open TCP ports 6881 through 6999 in your firewall. These ports are required by bittorent and/or Azureus. Type: /sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables Hit enter. This saves the rule. Type: iptables -L Hit enter. This will output your iptables file so you can see if the rule was saved. Type: cd /home/your_user_name Hit enter. Type: tar xvfj *.tar.bz2 Hit enter. Type: rm *.bz2 Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter. Close the terminal. Open the terminal so that you are logged in as user rather than root. Type: cd azureus Hit enter. Type: ./azureus Hit enter. Azureus will open. Configure your preferences in the dialog box presented and update the plugin if asked. When you click on a ".torrent" file in Firefox you will be presented with a dialog box. Click the radio button "open with" and click the checkbox "Do this automatically for files like this form now on", then click the "browse" button in the dialog box and browse to "home" > "azureus" and click on "azureus". Click "open". Click "OK". This will allow you to download ".torrent" files from within Firefox. These files are downloaded by default into the /home/your_user_name/.Azureus/downloads folder. You will have to click on "View" > "Show hidden files" in "Applications" > "File Browser" to get to them in the file browser.

Web Server:

• Note: If you choose to enable SELinux in your Fedora Core 3 installation you must pay special attention to some SELinux considerations with regard to your web server setup. See http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/. You may choose to disable SELinux for your web server installation only. To do this go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Security Level" > and under (expanded) "HTTPD Service" on the "SELinux" tab click in the checkbox for "Disable SELinux protection for httpd daemon". (Be sure to click the "OK" box when you're done.)

• Subscribe to a service such as https://www.dyndns.org/ or http://www.easydns.com/ to register a new domain name (such as your-name.org) and to have their DNS service map your computer's IP address to your new registered domain name. (The command "ifconfig" at the root prompt will output your IP address.) If you have a "dynamic" (changeable) IP address you can use their dynamic DNS service.

• Open the terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: gedit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Hit enter. In gedit scroll down to the "ServerAdmin" section and enter your email address instead of "root@localhost". Scroll down to the "#ServerName" section and uncomment it (take out the "#"). Then enter the registered DNS name of your web site ("whatever.com") or your server's IP address instead of "new.host.name". (If you don't know your IP address type "ifconfig" at the root prompt.) Scroll down and change "UseCanonicalName Off" to "UseCanonicalName On". Scroll down to the "Options" line and change "Options Indexes FollowSymLinks" to "Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews". Change "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit" in case you want to use .htaccess files in any of your web subdirectories. Change "DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var" to "DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.phtml index.php3 index.htm home.html welcome.html". Under the "AddType application/x-compress .Z" and "AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz" lines add the line: "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phps .php3 .phtml .html .htm .shtml .fds". Uncomment the line "#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" and add ".pl" so that it reads "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl". Click on the "save" icon in gedit and exit gedit.

• If you have a favicon.ico copy it to /var/www/html while still logged in as root (cp favicon.ico /var/www/html).

• Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services". Type in your root password in the dialog box that appears and click on "OK". Scroll down the list and check the check box for "httpd". Click on the "save" icon in the Service Configuration window and then close the window. Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Security Level" and make sure the check box is checked for "WWW (HTTP)" in the "Trusted services" pane. Reboot your machine.

• Open Firefox and type "http://localhost/" in the URL window and hit enter. You should see the default Apache/Fedora Core test page. Type your server's IP address in the URL window and hit enter. You should see the test page again. Type the registered DNS name of your web site ("whatever.com") in the URL window and hit enter. You should see the test page yet again.

• While still logged in as root copy your web site index.html and any other HTTP content you may have to /var/www/html. You are now serving web pages from your Fedora Core web server. You will find your server log files in /etc/httpd/logs and you will be able to view them while logged in as root.

PHP and Perl:

• PHP and Perl are available in Fedora Core 3 because we have done the "everything" installation previously. If you have enabled the Apache web server (see above) you can test your PHP and Perl installations by doing the following: Open the terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: gedit /var/www/html/phpinfo.php In gedit type: <?php phpinfo();?> Click the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. While still in the root terminal type: gedit /var/www/html/printenv.pl In gedit type: #!/usr/bin/perl
  ##
  ## printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment
  ##
  
  print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
  foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
  $val = $ENV{$var};
  $val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
  $val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
  print "$=\"$\"\n";
  } Click the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. Type: chmod 755 /var/www/html/printenv.pl Hit enter. Then type: chmod 755 /var/www/html/phpinfo.php Hit enter. Now when you open these files from your web server (http://whatever.com/phpinfo.php and http://whatever.com/printenv.pl) you will be able to prove the functionality of your PHP and Perl installations. (In order to allow cgi scripts to execute outside of the cgi-bin directory configure your httpd.conf as described in the web server section above.)

• Special note on configuring sendmail for PHP using your email provider's SMTP (simple mail transport protocol): Your /etc/php.ini file uses sendmail as the default transport agent for sending email from PHP applications ("sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"). The following quote is from Fedora Core 3 Release Notes: "By default, the Sendmail mail transport agent (MTA) does not accept network connections from any host other than the local computer. If you want to configure Sendmail as a server for other clients, you must edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to also listen on network devices (or comment out this option entirely using the dnl comment delimiter). You must then regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following command (as root): 'make -C /etc/mail'. Note that you must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to work." In order to accomplish this, edit "/etc/hosts" and add the line "your.ip.address whatever.org whatever" where "your.ip.address" is the IP address of your web server, "whatever.org" is the registered DNS name of your web site (your canonical domain name), and "whatever" is your short domain name (the characters before the dot). Separate the IP address from the domain name with a couple of tabs. Edit "/etc/sysconfig/network" and change "localhost.localdomain" to "whatever.org" where "whatever.org" is the registered DNS name of your web site (your canonical domain name). Reboot. Edit "/etc/mail/local-host-names" and include your domain name. Edit "/etc/mail/sendmail.mc" and change "dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')dnl" to "define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')dnl" where "smtp.your.provider" is the smtp host that you use to send mail from your email client. Also change "DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl" to "dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl". Also change "dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')dnl" to "MASQUERADE_AS(`your.provider.com')dnl" where "your.provider.com" is the host that you use to send mail from your email client (the characters after the "@"). Add these lines (near the bottom of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc but above "MAILER"): "FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db')dnl" and "GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')dnl". Edit or create if required: "/etc/mail/generics-domains". Include in "/etc/mail/generics-domains" your canonical domain name. (Be sure to add a carriage return.) Edit or create if required: "/etc/mail/genericstable". Include in "/etc/mail/genericstable" the line:"username mailusername@your.provider.com" where "username" is your non-root Fedora user name and "mailusername@your.provider.com" is your email address that you use with your email client. (Be sure to add a carriage return.) As root execute the command: "make -C /etc/mail". This will regenerate "/etc/mail/sendmail.cf". Reboot or start (or restart) sendmail from "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services". (See http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/sendmail.htm.)

MySQL:

• MySQL version 3.23.58 is available in Fedora Core 3 because we have done the "everything" installation previously. Go to "Applications" > "System Settings" > "Server Settings" > "Services". Type in your root password in the dialog box that appears and click on "OK". Scroll down the list and check the check box for "mysqld". Click on the "save" icon in the Service Configuration window and then close the window. Reboot your machine.

• Open the terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: gedit /etc/my.cnf Hit enter. In the mysqld section of my.cnf add the line: skip-innodb Your my.cnf should now look something like this: [mysqld]
  datadir=/var/lib/mysql
  socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
  skip-innodb
  
  [mysql.server]
  user=mysql
  basedir=/var/lib
  
  [safe_mysqld]
  err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
  pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid Click the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. While still in the root terminal type: mysql -u root Hit enter. You will see the mysql> query prompt. Type: select user, host, password, select_priv, update_priv, delete_priv, insert_priv from mysql.user; Hit enter. You will see something like this: +------+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
  | user | host | password | select_priv | update_priv | delete_priv | insert_priv |
  +------+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
  | root | localhost | | Y | Y | Y | Y |
  | root | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 | | Y | Y | Y | Y |
  | | localhost | | N | N | N | N |
  | | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 | | N | N | N | N |
  +------+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
  4 rows in set (0.17 sec)
  
  mysql> Type: set password for 'root'@'localhost' = password ('newpassword'); where "newpassword" is the password that you want to use for the root MySQL super user. Hit enter. Type: set password for 'root'@'host' = password ('newpassword'); where "host" is the name of your host as reported in the "host" column above and "newpassword" is the password that you want to use for the root MySQL super user. Hit enter. Type: select user, host, password, select_priv, update_priv, delete_priv, insert_priv from mysql.user; Hit enter. You will see something like this with your password hash-encrypted in the "password" column: +------+------------------------+------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
  | user | host | password | select_priv | update_priv | delete_priv | insert_priv |
  +------+------------------------+------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
  | root | localhost | 1e36745e3c0f99b0 | Y | Y | Y | Y |
  | root | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 | 1e36745e3c0f99b0 | Y | Y | Y | Y |
  | | localhost | | N | N | N | N |
  | | x1-6-00-04-5a-5e-ac-83 | | N | N | N | N |
  +------+------------------------+------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
  4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
  
  mysql> Type: exit Close the terminal. Reboot your machine. Open a terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: mysql -u root -p Hit enter. MySQL should ask for your MySQL super user password. Type it in. Hit enter. Type: exit You have successfully set up MySQL.

phpMyAdmin:

• Open Firefox. Go to http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ and download (save to disk) the latest stable version in bzip2 format (phpMyAdmin-2.6.1.tar.bz2).

• Open a terminal. Type: su Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: mv *.tar.bz2 /var/www/html Hit enter. Type: cd /var/www/html Hit enter. Type: bzip2 -dc *.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - Hit enter. Type: mv phpMyAdmin-2.6.1 phpmyadmin Hit enter. Type: su - Hit enter. Type: gedit /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php In /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php change "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = '';" to "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ' http://whatever.com/phpmyadmin/';", change "$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ''; to "$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'passphrase';" where "passphrase" is some arbitrary string of characters that the blowfish algorithm will use to encrypt your password when using cookie type authentication. Under "Server(s) configuration" change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';". Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. Open http://whatever.com/phpmyadmin/ in Firefox (where "whatever.com" is your web site). Type "root" in the "Username:" box and your MySQL super user password in the "Password:" box. Click the "Login" button. You should see the " Welcome to phpMyAdmin" web page. Open a terminal. Type: su - Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type: mysql -u root -p Type in your MySQL super user password. Hit enter. For MySQL version 3.23.58 type: GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pmapassword';
  GRANT SELECT (
  Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,
  Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,
  File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv
  ) ON mysql.user TO 'pma'@'localhost';
  GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO 'pma'@'localhost';
  GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO 'pma'@'localhost';
  GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)
  ON mysql.tables_priv TO 'pma'@'localhost';
  GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON phpmyadmin.* TO 'pma'@'localhost'; where "pmapassword" is the password for the pma user that you select for the special "controluser" that has only the SELECT privilege on the mysql.user (all columns except "Password"), mysql.db (all columns), mysql.host (all columns) and mysql.tables_priv (all columns except "Grantor" & "Timestamp") tables. Hit enter. Hit enter. Open Firefox, go to http://whatever.org/phpmyadmin/scripts/create_tables.sql. (Substitute "whatever.org" for your web site registered DNS name or IP address.) Click "edit" > "select all", click "edit" > "copy", go back to the terminal and click "edit" > "paste". Hit enter. The entire query should be executed at the "mysql>" prompt. When the query finishes type "exit" at the mysql> prompt. Type: gedit /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php In /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'pmapassword';" where "pmapassword" is the password for the pma user that you selected earlier, change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma_relation';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma_table_info';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma_table_coords';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma_pdf_pages';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma_column_info';", change "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = '';" to "$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma_history';". Click on the "save" icon in gedit and close gedit. Close the terminal. Open Firefox and go to http://whatever.com/phpmyadmin/ where "whatever.com" is your web site registered DNS name or IP address. Log into phpMyAdmin as root. Click on the down arrow in the "Database:" selection dialog box in the left column. You should see the "mysql", "phpmyadmin", and "test" databases listed. You may delete ("drop") the "test" database if you wish. You have now successfully configured phpMyAdmin.