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Installation notes for Fedora 10 on my AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+. As usual, you can find more complete Howtos on the Net, so I won't repeat this here.

Download

Via one of the ftp mirrors. Burn to DVD, done.

Basic install

As with my previous installation, I did not do an update but a complete reinstall. I just scraped the old FC8 installation, keeping the home-directories and manually installed software.

Tweaking

Installer

The installer had issues with hardware detection and configuration, I was able to get it running by adding acpi=off to the startup commandline:

linux acpi=off

The downside: Currently I do not have auto-shutdown by default, I have to tweak this a little bit further.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems#Crashes.2FHangs for hints on how to solve this problem.

None of the kernel argument switches did it, but I got an error-message on boot, stating "8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC", googling that gave some hints, and the final sollution was to disable ACPI functionality partly in the BIOS. Hideous crap.

Java

Install Sun Java as described here:

$ sudo sh jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Enable it via alternatives, otherwise, the default OpenJDK will be used by default:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 20000

Same for the Mozilla plugin

$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so \
libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/default/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 20000

Now, if you want java, you also want Java Web start

$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/default/bin/javaws 20000

You can check the default Java version by typing

java -version

on the command-line.

Issues

Again Fedora managed to fuck up Java (or Sun did, who knows):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476619

Alt Gr does not work with German LANG-settings and Swing applications (Eclipse works flawlessly though.

Here are some sollutions:

Put this into your ~/.bash_profile

export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

This fixes the issue for e.g. IntelliJ Idea, but there have been reports, that it freezes that app after ~ 10 min or so. Can't confirm that.

You can also write a wrapper script to start the app with this environment.

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-Installation notes for Fedora 10 on my AMD Athlon64 3200+. As usual, you can find [http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html more complete Howtos on the Net], so I won't repeat this here.
+Installation notes for Fedora 10 on my AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+. As usual, you can find [http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html more complete Howtos on the Net], so I won't repeat this here.
 = Download =
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 The downside: Currently I do not have auto-shutdown by default, I have to tweak this a little bit further.
+See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems#Crashes.2FHangs for hints on how to solve this problem.
+None of the kernel argument switches did it, but I got an error-message on boot, stating <tt>"8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC"</tt>, googling that gave some hints, and the final sollution was to disable ACPI functionality partly in the BIOS. Hideous crap.
+== Java ==
+Install Sun Java as described [http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html#java here]:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+$ sudo sh jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
+</syntaxhighlight>
+Enable it via alternatives, otherwise, the default OpenJDK will be used by default:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 20000
+</syntaxhighlight>
+Same for the Mozilla plugin
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so \
+libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/default/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 20000
+</syntaxhighlight>
+Now, if you want java, you also want Java Web start
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+$ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/default/bin/javaws 20000
+</syntaxhighlight>
+You can check the default Java version by typing
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+java -version
+</syntaxhighlight>
+on the command-line.
+= Issues =
+[[Fedora 8 Linux#Java 6 does not work any more|Again]] Fedora managed to fuck up Java (or Sun did, who knows):
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476619
+Alt Gr does not work with German <tt>LANG</tt>-settings and Swing applications (Eclipse works flawlessly though.
+Here are some sollutions:
+Put this into your <tt>~/.bash_profile</tt>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
+</syntaxhighlight>
+This fixes the issue for e.g. IntelliJ Idea, but there have been reports, that it freezes that app after ~ 10 min or so. Can't confirm that.
+You can also write a wrapper script to start the app with this environment.
+Other solutions (untested):
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+export XMODIFIERS=''
+</syntaxhighlight>
+see http://brianp.de/2009/01/26/probleme-mit-alt-gr-unter-netbeans-65-und-ubuntu-810/
+Although this is a general Java or Fedora/Linux problem, some major Java apps suffer from it, among them IntelliJ Idea and NetBeans, see http://editor.netbeans.org/doc/KeyboardIssues/KeyboardIssues.html.

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