Fedora 8 Post Install
Fedora 8 is out and I blew away my laptop to setup a fresh install. After some tinkering, I can honestly say that fedora is definitely getting better. Out of the box it supported my laptop without tweaking.
However, I still needed to do some post installation setup:
Configuring sudo
Sudo is a utility which will allow you to run commands as a super user, without having to enter the super user password. On my development machine, I set it up so that my user account can sudo without entering a password:
#su (enter root password when prompted)
#/usr/sbin/visudo
Find "root ALL=(ALL) ALL" and right below it, add: yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL
Next, find "# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" and erase the leading number sign (ESC, X). Exit and by pressing ESC :wq
Next add your user account to the wheel group:
# gpasswd -a yourusername wheel
Now, test:
# Exit
$ sudo mkdir x (should have created a directory owned by root). Now delete it with sudo rmdir x. sudo is now configured.
Adobe acrobatreader
Download Adobe Reader here (or just use xpdf or kpdf) and type:
$ sudo rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm
Skype
The easiest way to setup skype is to point to the skype repository and let yum do all the work. Create a file entitled /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo and add the following text to it.
[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
Next, tell yum to install skype:
$ sudo yum install skype
Installing Flash Plugin
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum install flash-plugin
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