Friday, December 28, 2007

Fedora 8

Trying to set up Fedora 8. The Unofficial FAQ is really useful. Over 450MB of updates for something that was released less then a month ago is a bit much to swallow. The i686 developer spin is a must as a few things will require compiling and building stuff - pretty quick to install from a booted Live.

From my shell history:

yum -y install yum-priorities
nano /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf (check_obsoletes = 1)
rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/f8/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install flash-plugin
yum install mplayerplug-in


I'd really like to get Skype Video 2.0 Beta for Linux working, however this requires uvcvideo and the pre-built version isn't working:

rpm -ivh http://drpixel.tuxfamily.org/fedora/drpixel-release-1-2.noarch.rpm
yum install uvcvideo
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 is needed by package kmod-uvc

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