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My notes on Fedora, biased towards version 14.

DVD playing

Great news: Fedora 14 is able to play DVDs. A brief outline how I did this was:
  • Visit the atrpms site, and follow the installation instructions
  • click the link for F14
  • Scroll down and look for libdvdcss. In particular, you will want the 2.X version.
  • Install it.
  • Install VLC using yum.

    You should now be set up to view DVDs using VLC.

    Locale

    To see the the locales available, type locale -a. If you are in the UK, you probably want en_GB.utf8. The easiest way to change the locale is to run system-config-language as root. You will probably be prompted to install it as root if you haven't already done so.

    Package management

    See what packages are installed: yum list installed

    See the files in a package, eg.:repoquery --list mingw32-gcc

    Privoxy

    ln -s /etc/init.d/privoxy /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90privoxy 
    Author:  Mark Carter
Created: 21-Feb-2011
Updated: 11-Mar-2011