Replacing old *nix with Fedora 14

Last time when i installed fedora am not that happy; the problem may be on my side or on other side; i dont know.

I thought lets give it a try again. I installed fedora 14, installation was smooth but i faced some problem in creating the bootable usb drive. But it got resolved in few tries. I installed fedora and trust me installation was too smooth.

After the installation i need to make it ready for using [ missing softwares ]

I started with Java.

Installing Java

• Download jdk and jre from goo.gl/nqkjo. Download bin files.
• Change it to become executable [ chmod +x file ]
• Run bin file
• Using alternative --install command.

Ok Lets try it out. You may require root access.

1. Open Terminal
2. wget goo.gl/JMYjs This will download jdk-6u22-linux-i586-rpm.bin
3. chmod +x jdk-6u22-linux-i586-rpm.bin
4. ./jdk-6u22-linux-i586-rpm.bin
5. alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/bin/java 20000
6. alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/bin/javaws 20000
7. java -version

Next is openoffice
yum install openoffice*

To enjoy mp3 and other restricted softwares we need to enable the restricted repos.

This is all for Fedora 14.