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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.

@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 Install Sun Java as described [http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html#java here]:
-<bash>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 $ sudo sh jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
-</bash>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 Enable it via alternatives, otherwise, the default OpenJDK will be used by default:
-<bash>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 $ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 20000
-</bash>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 Same for the Mozilla plugin
-<bash>
+<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
-</bash>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 Now, if you want java, you also want Java Web start
-<bash>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 $ sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/default/bin/javaws 20000
-</bash>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 You can check the default Java version by typing
-<bash>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 java -version
-</bash>
+</syntaxhighlight>
 on the command-line.
+= Issues =
-=== Issues ===
+[[Fedora 8 Linux#Java 6 does not work any more|Again]] Fedora managed to fuck up Java (or Sun did, who knows):
-Again Fedora managed to fuck up Java (or Sun did, who knows):
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476619
@@ Line 73: / Line 72: @@
 Put this into your <tt>~/.bash_profile</tt>
-<bash>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
-</bash>
+</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.
@@ Line 81: / Line 82: @@
 Other solutions (untested):
-<bash>
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 export XMODIFIERS=''
-</bash>
+</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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