Installation of common application software under Fedora8

I have sorted out the installation methods for 10 commonly used applications under Fedora8 and shared them with my friends who are new to Fedora8linux. I hope this will help you! 1. Browsers-firefox2, audio playback tools-audacious3, video playback tools-mplayer4, stardict5, FTP client-FileZilla6, linux super Terminals-gtkterm, minicom7, and mht files reading 8. pdf file 9. Downloading

I have sorted out the installation methods for 10 commonly used applications under Fedora 8 and shared them with friends who are new to Fedora 8 linux. I hope this will help you!

1. browser-firefox
2. Audio Playback tool-audacious
3. Video Playback tool-mplayer
4. stardict
5. FTP client-FileZilla
6. linux super Terminals-gtkterm and minicom
7. Read mht files
8. pdf file
9. Download tool software
10. totem-xine Installation

1. firefox installation:

Delete the built-in firefox: yum remove firefox
Download source code package http://www.mozilla.org.cn/

Tar-zxvf firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz-C/usr
Ln-s/usr/firefox/usr/bin/firefox
Yum-y install compat-libstdc ++-33 # this package is included in the installation disc.
Run firefox
Set firefox as the default browser

2. Install audio/video software-audacious
Install the main program: yum install audacious
Decoder to be installed: audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3
Audacious-plugins-nonfree-wma
Audacious-plugins-nonfree-xmms
Audacious-plugins-nonfree-lame
Audacious-plugins-nonfree-aac
Audacious-plugins-nonfree-alac
Yum-y install audacious-plugins *

Icon:
Rpm-ql audacious | grep png | more
Cp/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/audacious.png/usr/share/pixmaps
System --> preferences --> perception --> Main Menu: select audio and video, right-click audacious, and set the icon in properties

Playback list garbled
Right-click "Preferences", select "Chinese" from "playlist", "metadata", "use auto-encoding detector"
Select "artist-title" in "show Songs" and "title format"
The above scrolling display garbled characters during playback:
In the right-click "Preferences", deselect "use dot matrix font if possible" under "appearance" and "font"
Open audacious again and you will be able to see that Chinese characters are correctly displayed in the playlist.

3. mplayer Installation
Installer: yum install mplayer-gui mplayer-fonts mencoder
To support firefox, you can install mplayerplug-in.

Download and install the decoder:
Http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2 wget-c
Tar-jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
Mv./all-20071007/*/usr/lib/codecs/

Sometimes you need win32codecs:
Http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-all-20071007.zip wget-c
Mkdir/usr/lib/win32codecs
Yum install unzip
Unzip windows-all-20071007.zip
Mv./windows-all-20071007/*/usr/lib/win32codecs/
OK. Now you can play rm/rmvb and wmv videos normally.

PS: I encountered a problem when I put it. I had an image, but there was no sound. An error window pops up, mainly because the sound decoding error, in Prefrences --> Audio, just change the sound driver.
Other mplayer installation:

Skin:
Http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Abyss-1.6.tar.bz2 wget-c
Tar-jxvf Abyss-1.6.tar.bz2-C/usr/share/mplayer/skins/
Font:
Http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/chinesefonts/gb2312-ming.tar.bz2 wget-c
Tar-jxvf gb2312-ming.tar.bz2-C/usr/share/mplayer/fonts/

4. Stardict
Yum-y install stardict
Download the dictionary on the http://stardict.sourceforge.net/dictionaries_zh_cn.php page.
Decompress the package into a directory for each dictionary and put the dictionary directory in/usr/share/stardict/dic. Start stardict.