Fedora 14 on my old dell inspiron 600m

December 5, 2010 | Comments | Permalink

I gave my old dell a linux flavor. The whole process was pretty smooth and most of the basic stuff was already pre-installed except for two things where I had to put in an extra effort:

getting ms core fonts
getting vlc

So this is what I did:

MS core fonts

You need to be logged in to your terminal as root

cd /tmp

wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

yum install rpm-build cabextract

rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

cd /tmpwget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.specyum install rpm-build cabextractrpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

yum install --nogpgcheck /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

fc-cache -v -f

Alternatively you can just take a dump of the ms fonts from windows and upload it to /usr/share/fonts/<new-folder> ... followed by fc-cache -v -f <thanks to @cool_n_curious>

VLC on Fedora

rmp -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

yum install vlc

yum install python-vlc mozilla-vlc (optional)

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