It’s become a common question right now that why FireFox 2 is not available on the Fedora Core 6 default package repositories? The answer seems to be on the FireFox 2 page of the Fedora Project Wiki. A small quote from this page: For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to…
Tag: rpms
Today I installed FC6 on my Compaq Presario V2000, had to do some tweaks to get the WiFi running. Here is what I did: 1) Install Livna RPM Repository information: $ rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm 2) Install ipw2200 firmware: $ yum install ipw2200-firmware 3) Add following to /etc/modprobe.conf: options ipw2200 hwcrypto=1 associate=0 4) Add ESSID and…
Brandon Hutchison has made excellant Fedora Helper which helps you install all the Packages which you always loved to have. Mplayer, Flash Plugin, JRE, Acrobat Reeader, Limewire and many more in one go. Just download this helper and run it and see the magic. It uses the Livna rpm repository as well as original sources…