On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:27:01AM +0000, Christine wrote:
> Having finally bitten the bullet and dumped Windows after years of
> threatening to, I am loving using Fedora and I'm slowly figuring out
> how to do all the things I need to BUT I seem to be totally unable to
> master installing new software. Can someone tell me - preferably in
> words of one syllable and in very detailed steps - how I go about
> doing this?
I'm answering this one separately. Leaving VMWare aside, as it's not in
any of the repos (the collections of software that Fedora checks) in
most cases, you can easily install software with yum install <package
name>.
For example, if I went the text web browser, w3m
yum install w3m
To avoid them asking if you're sure, you can do
yum -y install w3m
(The -y is yes, meaning yes, I want it.)
There are all sorts of other things it does--for example, you download
an rpm and try to install it. It fails, saying you need libstdc++. So,
then I can do
yum provides libstdc++
It will then (hopefully) come back with the package name that provides
that library.
There's yum search as well, if you're not quite sure of the package
name.
Try reading the man page,
man yum
It gives some options, most of it in an understandable format. There
are various yum tutorials around as well.
Two useful plugins that I've found are fastestmirror and skipbroken.
yum -y install yum-fastestmirror yum-skip-broken
The fastest mirror plugin will search for the fastest mirror for the
repos that you have. (This can backfire as it seems to measure ping
time and sometimes that mirror has a slow download for whatever reason.)
The skip-broken is good if you're doing a major upgrade.
yum --enable-skip-broken update
will download what you need, rather than starting the download, and
after 20 minutes saying, sorry, missing dependencies, you have to start
all over again. :)
This works for most of the packages you will need. Of course, it
doesn't always work and sometimes there are no rpms for the packages.
Also, as Fedora is very strict about only using free software, you might
want to enable the livna repos. This is a repository that has things
like mplayer and other non-free software.
What simple software was giving you problems? (VMWare, as per my other
post, is another story, and not that trivial.)
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