Hi, I'm new to linux (Fedora) at the moment (1:25PM GMT) I am downloading the Fedora Core 6 "Zod", this will be my first time using linux properly, (been a windows guy for to long), I've a couple of questions if someone could answer that'd be great, cheers.

 

Q1: Can I play DVDs out of the box (just put the disk in and watch)

Q2: Can I burn CDs/DVDs out of the box

Q3: Will OpenOffice come on the DVDiso or will I need to download/install it seperatally

Q4: Can I do photo editing (like adobe photoshop)

Q5: Can I play MP3s

Q6: Can I play .rmvb's or another format like .wmv

Q7: Is updating fedora as easy as updating windows/mac-osx

Q8: Can I download torrents on fedora just like on windows

First off, let me say, this is a great website. I've spent a couple of days lurking in the dark reading. I have recently formatted and killed windows and installed FC5. Then I turned around and upgrade to FC6 a week later. I am Unix Admin for Travelocity so I have a little experince, but most of my back ground is in Windows. I must say I prefer Unix/Linux. So I decided to move to a Linux desktop at home. I learned Windows by using it, so may as well take that approach with Linux. It's amazing how reading reviews of Vista will cause people to jump ship, not that I wasn't sick of the viruses and spyware anyway.

 

Anyway, I hope you guys/gals don't mind stupid questions.....

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I want to install fedora

1ghz + 256sdram will this be enough?

Right - maybe this is due to me messing around with the ATi X driver before noticing the FC6 script, but I did the yum-install of mplayer (using the instructions from this site) and unfortunately it seems not to want to play ball...

 

Launching from the applications menu gets nowhere, so I thought "ah, probably segfaulting or something equallly as irritating" so launched it from the console - and get the following error:

 

"mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied"

 

I'm pretty much full time windows so I'm really none the wiser on this - the reason I think I've broken something installing the ATi drivers without the FC6 tweaks is because it references to libGL, which I presume may be part of either the ATi distro or something to do with FC6 which I have now buggered!

 

Anyone shed any light? I was logged in as root when I got the error, I've yet to try it as a standard user.

 

Cheers :)

Hi all running Fedora 6 on x86_64.

I installed the wrong package for gpar2

I installed the .i386 version, I cannt remove it yet, I need to remove to install the 64bit version of gpar2.

here are the errors I am getting and info on my problem:

 

[root@localhost /]# rpm -qa gpar2

gpar2-0.3-2

[root@localhost /]#rpm -e gpar2-0.3-2

postrm called with unknown argument `0'

error: %postun(gpar2-0.3-2.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

 

 

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Just Installed Ubuntu 6.06LTS, from a downloaded ISO. was connected to the net during install and all looks good, I have used "Synaptic package manager" to add some bizzo and ticked all the repository boxes so I could get Aircrack and Kismet instaled. That much was surprisingly easy for someone who has only ever installed fedora and red hat, but never been able to do much with them, however Ubuntu has my interest and I want to do more.

I intend to do some security checking of Wlans, my own first, I am told these two apps (Aircrack and Kismet) can crack a wpa-psk in under an hour. I have downloaded the Atheros drivers for the Cisco-CB21AG pcmcia card I intend to use but am a bit stumped as to how to get them into the notebook (IBM thinkpad R52). Following the newbie guide at aircrack-ng. I would get an error message in the terminal telling me that "make" was an unknown command, so I went back into synaptic and found "make", "makedev" and "makedepend". I installed these and now make tries to run but gives me...

 

tsp10402@SN-GHG:~/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.2$ make

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/build: No such file or directoryMakefile.inc:89: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.

tsp10402@SN-GHG:~/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.2$

 

I assume I am missing some of the kernel files but don't know what they are or how to get them installed.

 

Thanks for any assistance.

G.

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Howdy,

 

I'm a super Linux n00b here and need some help.

 

I'm trying to enable Desktop Effects in Fedora Core 6 but I'm told that Desktop Effects cannot be enabled. I've been told in passing that I need to install the ATi Open Source Driver.

 

Not only do I not know where to get it, but I wouldn't know how to install it even if I did. I can't even manage to install Firefox 2 at the moment. :P

 

Anyways, help in the form of a nice little step by step would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks guys. B)