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August 21st, 2005

Setting Up Yum

In Red Hat 9, I had a bunch of repositories to get extra packages with apt-get. In Fedora, the prefered package installer is yum, but the configuration file only points to the official repositories. Luckily, FreshRPMS has the updated configuration file that goes in /etc/yum.conf.

After this, the packages were downloaded but not installed. I was getting a “public key not available” message. This was fixed with

rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms

rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat

rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-yellowdog

2005 08 21

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Multiple X Servers

For users sharing a computer, it’s nice to allow two people to be logged in to their X desktop at the same time. You can change to the first session with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and the second with Ctrl-Alt-F8. I had this set up in Red Hat 9 but the upgrade to Fedora Core disabled it. The setting is in file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. The upgrade renamed this file gdm.conf.rpmsave and created a new one with default settings. All you have to do is find the [servers] section and uncomment the line
# 1=Standard
Then kick GDM (as root) with
kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/gdm.pid`
After you log out, GDM will restart with two sessions.

2005 08 21

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