Fedora 11 installation process

Posted byTruong Anh TuanPosted inLinux, Weekly Tips

This process is used for all iWay desktops and laptops:

  1. Install Fedora 11 from LiveCD
  2. Disable SELinux

    3. setenforce 0
    Change file: /etc/selinux/config

  3. Setup local repository: /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo (includes: local, virror and atrpms):

    4. # Base packages on Virror
    [base-local]
    name=Fedora $releasever – $basearch – Base local
    baseurl=http://virror.hanoilug.org/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0

    # Update packages inside iWay LAN
    [updates-local]
    name=Fedora $releasever – $basearch – Updates local
    baseurl=http://mirror.iwayvietnam.com:9090/yum/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0

    # Additional packages at ATRPMS.net
    [atrpms]
    name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms
    baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
    gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
    gpgcheck=1
    enabled=1

  4. Rename/disable default repos.
  5. Update all latest sofwtares, patches:

    6. yum -y update

  6. Install msttcorefonts

    7. mkdir /mnt/pub
    mount z:/data/pub /mnt/pub
    yum -y localinstall /mnt/pub/OpenSource/utilities/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm –nogpgcheck

  7. Install scim-xunikey

    8. yum remove scim-lang\*
    yum -y localinstall /mnt/pub/OpenSource/utilities/scim-unikey-0.2.0~20090313-1.fc10.i386.rpm –nogpgcheck

  8. Install OpenOffice

    9. yum -y install openoffice.org-presenter-screen openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-brand openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-writer2xhtml openoffice.org-ure openoffice.org-calc-core openoffice.org-pyuno openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw-core openoffice.org-xsltfilter openoffice.org-impress-core openoffice.org-math-core openoffice.org-writer-core openoffice.org-pdfimport openoffice.org-graphicfilter openoffice.org-presentation-minimizer openoffice.org-voikko openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-draw

  9. Install samba-client

    10. yum -y install samba-client

  10. Install vlc

    11. yum -y install vlc vlc-plugin

  11. Install wine

    12. yum -y install wine

  12. Install other tools: vim, mc, lynx

    13. yum -y install vim-common vim-enhanced mc lynx

  13. Install developement tools (optional, for developers only)

Note: For upgrading from Fedora 10, you should firstly do a backup (/home/<your-user-name>, and some other folders, if any); then follow above process to install newly fresh Fedora 11; and finally, create an user with the same name and restore the backup data into the same home folder.