Installing Fedora Core 5

• get either full distro or first disc from a mirror site
  • avoid zeniiia; the FC5 distribution appears to be missing some RPMs
• perform a basic install
  • now spend a day trying to make the basics work e.g. video, network, etc.
  • 915resolution may help here
  • if you have an Intel 3945ABG wireless chipset, prepare for some reading...
• add livna to your list of repositories
• do a full update
  • as root: yum update
  • this will take some time
• install boost
• install ffmpeg
  • as root: yum install ffmpeg-devel.i386
  • get the latest ffmpeg from svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
  • patch (see attached) if still required
• install faac, faad2, lame
  • as root: yum install facc-devel.i386 faad2-devel.i386 lame-devel.i386
• install opengl
  • search YUM for GLU
  • I used mesa-libGLU-devel.i386 and freeglut-devel.i386
  • install GLEW (FC5 here: http://rpmfarm.free.fr/5/i386/SRPMS.farm/repodata/repoview/glew-0-1.3.4-1.EL.FC5.html)
    • this provides a source RPM which needs to be turned into an RPM and then installed
    • rpmbuild --rebuild glew-1.3.4-1.EL.FC5.src.rpm
    • rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/glew-1.3.4-1.%\{disttag\}.%\{repotag\}.i386.rpm
    • rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/glew-devel-1.3.4-1.%\{disttag\}.%\{repotag\}.i386.rpm
• install openal
  • as root: yum install openal-devel.i386
• python
  • pycrypto
  • ezPyCrypto
• configure openlibraries
  • you may need to update the qt paths (default is /usr/lib/qt3, on FC5 this is /usr/lib/qt-3.3)
  • if you have SELinux enabled, then you will need to modify the openlibraries .so to allow text relocation. This can be done as follows:
    • sudo find /usr/local/lib/ -name '*.so*' -exec chcon -t texrel_shlib_t {} \;