Fixing Fedora Core 4
It isn’t perfect the way it comes.
xmms and Pan are missing
Synaptec is broken – the work around is to use yum and yum extender
(a synaptic-like gui for yum)
A backwards compatibility hack is needed because GCC 4.0 was used; without the hack, Realplayer (and a number of other programs) won’t install. The web site listed next explains the fix:
http://mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc4.shtml#real
The way to do the fix is to use the terminal, become root with "su", and type:
yum install compat-libstdc++-33 {enter}
That is all that there is to it....
Missing stuff:
Pan can now be gotten using yum extender.
I had to go to: http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/downloads.php
for FC4 xmms-mp3;
and an alternate source is DAG (mentioned in the FC1 book - url is: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms/ )
Hopefully, we will fix these things with the clubs version of FC4
PS for the fun of it, I tried to use Open Office 2 (actually still the 1.9.122 beta) to write this as an html document. I have always done such documents in a text editor to keep them small, simple, and easy to change, fix, etc. However, this (open office html) isn’t too bad.