Fedora 8 (Werewolf) has been released! Just like Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7 I wrote this guide to help you with some common installation tasks that might be useful for you. Everything has been tested on my system and it works! Learn how to set up extra repositories, add video/dvd and audio codecs, install useful applications, configure Firefox's plugins, install compiz-fusion and much more!

Contents

1. Configuring sudo
2. Configuring yum
Basic Commands
Fedora Repositories
Livna Repository
FreshRPMs Repository
ATrpms Repository
Graphical Interface ( yumex )
yum through proxy
yum plugins
3. Configuring Services
4. Installing video drivers
Installing nVidia driver
Installing ati driver
5. Installing Microsoft fonts
6. Configuring Firefox
KDE Default browser
Acrobat Plugin
Flash Plugin
Mplayer Plugin
java Plugin
mms streaming play
Set backspace button
7. MP3 and Audio players
Rhythmbox/Gstreamer
Amarok
Audacious
XMMS
8. DVD & video players
mplayer
totem
xine
vlc - video lan client
kaffeine
RealPlayer
9. IRC Clients
konversation
xchat
10. MSN Messenger Clients
kopete
pidgin
amsn
11. Author, Burn and BackUp CD/DVDs
gnomebaker
k3b
k9copy
DeVeDe
12. Download manager
13. PDF Readers
kpdf
xpdf
acrobatreader
14. Torrent Clients
KTorrent
Bittorrent
15. Other Useful Applications
rar
FTP Clients
chm Reader
eMule Client
linuxdcpp
Partition Editor
Google Earth
Skype
16. Accessing Windows Partitions
FAT32
NTFS
17. Accessing Windows Shares
18. Compiz-fusion
git
unofficial packages
official packages
19. KDE
KDE Installation
KDE Country Flags
KDE style in gtk applications
Auto Login
20. JAVA Installaion
OpenJDK
Sun JAVA

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