Fedora 11
This is a short howto get the Nvidia drivers and multimedia stuff installed on your new Fedora 11.
I assume you have a newly installed system before following this. The first thing you want to do before you run
`yum update`
is to install yum-presto:
`yum install yum-presto`,
and save some time and bandwidth. Next up is to install dkms and the devel package for your running kernel,type in
`uname -r`
in your terminal, and if there is no PAE in there install kernel-devel:
`yum install kernel-devel`
Otherwise install kernel-PAE-devel:
`yum install kernel-PAE-devel`
Then run yum update, and when that’s done, reboot.
Nvidia drivers, for this we need to enable the RPMfusion repositories:
`rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm`.
Then install the driver, I use the akmod-nvidia package which builds the required module on reboot:
`yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64`,
then reboot.
When you get back you can go to http://www.adobe.com and download the yum flash-plugin for fedora, or click here and install:
`http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10_for_Linux_(YUM)`
The multimedia stuff is next:
`yum install flash-plugin gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-freeworld gecko-mediaplayer`
That’s that, you should now be able to enjoy all of the webs offerings!
Credit where credit is due: Leigh on fedoraforums for an excellent Nvidia howto: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752
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