Works after Installing FC4

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Small Tools

• Install numlockx, so when the machine starts, Num Lock is turned on.

yum -y install numlockx

• GUI for yum

yum -y install yumex

• Make Nautilus show 'my home' etc. better: choose Edit | Preferences | Behavior tab, check 'Always open in browser windows'.

Sun JDK

Take jdk 1.5.0_06 as an example:

• download JDK for Linux from Sun's web site: http://java.sun.com
• install it, it will be installed to /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06
• make a soft link for convenience:

cd /usr
ln -s java/jdk1.5.0_06 jdk

• make it available for firefox and mozilla

ln -s /usr/jdk/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/jdk/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/firefox/plugins/

Realplayer

• install compat-libstdc++-33

yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33

• download real player from http://www.real.com/linux, and install it.

MPlayer

• download codecs: choose all-*.tar.bz2 from http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs
• expand and install codecs

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mkdir /usr/lib/win32/
# extract files from all-*.tar.bz2, copy to both of above dirs, and chmod to 755

• install the player:

yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts

• configure mplayer: add following lines in ~/.mplayer/config:

vo=xv
ao=alsa

MP3 plugins

yum -y install xmms-mp3 gstreamer-plugins-mp3 libmad libid3tag