Unofficial FAQ Update: 2005-11-29

[Avatraxiom]

Hi! I have a great big Unofficial Fedora FAQ (http://www.fedorafaq.org/) update for you today! We have lots of new, good stuff:

* New Translations: Czech, Spanish, Romanian, Vietnamese, Turkish, and Chinese!
* New Question: "Is there a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for yum?"
* Updated the Java instructions, a lot!
* An updated Yum configuration!
* A new version of the PDF question.
* An update to the question about menu editing.
* And a lot of other small fixes in the whole FAQ.

As always, if you have any feedback, let me know (http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/)!

-Max

[Finalzone]

Just to let you know that repo like nrpms, freshrpms and rpmforge provides the repo file in packages under the name <reponame>-release.
There are useful because you can easily remove them via either rpm command or yum.

[Avatraxiom]

Just to let you know that repo like nrpms, freshrpms and rpmforge provides the repo file in packages under the name <reponame>-release.
There are useful because you can easily remove them via either rpm command or yum.

Thanks. Yeah, it's true. :-) It's just easier to have a single command for a new user to run, which is just rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum

-Max

[Zyqwux]

Great! Now I maybe can install Java! Hahaha!

[mbokil]

Java is easy to install. You just go to sun's site and download their binary i386 or your own cpu version, open up a terminal and run the binary to dearchive it and finally install using rpm. It takes about 5 minutes to do. Then make a symbolic link in the plugins folder of Firefox which points to the plugin in the java binaries directory.

[ilja]

Java is easy to install. You just go to sun's site and download their binary i386 or your own cpu version, open up a terminal and run the binary to dearchive it and finally install using rpm. It takes about 5 minutes to do. Then make a symbolic link in the plugins folder of Firefox which points to the plugin in the java binaries directory.
and
the Release Notes of FC4
6.1.8. Java Package Recommendations

Fedora Core 4 users are advised not to use the Java RPM provided by Sun. It contains Provides that conflict with names used in packages provided as part of Fedora Core 4. Because of this, Sun Java might disappear from an installed system during package upgrade operations.

Fedora Core 4 users should use either the RPM from jpackage.org or manually install the Sun Java tarball into /opt. Sun Java 1.5+ is recommended for stability purposes.

[Zyqwux]

But Firefox shuts down when I do somethng in java. But I succeded one time. :-P