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I’ve just installed the new Fedora 12 Gnome edition on my Windows 7 using VirtualBox 3.1.2. After installation was complete, I was tried to install the VirtualBox Guest Addition on this Fedora 12 Guest.

At first, I was thought that it was the same way of installing VBox Gueast Addition in Mandriva 2010 or Ubuntu 9.10, so I directly activate the “VBoxGuestAddition.iso” from the Device | CD/DVD drive menu on Virtualbox and then install the binary. But then I received error telling me that cannot find the kernel bla bla……

Now, I found the solution of installing VirtualBox Guest Addition inside Fedora 12:

Before you install the VirtualBox Guest Addition, do the following:

1. Update Kernel. You can do this by typing the command below on terminal:

yum -y update kernel 

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Actually I am not a Fedora and its derivatives user. But, yesterday I install OpenZange, the beauty Linux distro that based on Fedora core Linux. Now I want to install Opera browser on OpenXange, Fedora based Linux. So I think its the same on native Fedora.

1. Download the Opera binray file from Opera. Make sure you choose Fedora from the drop down list.

2. Now go to your download directory. On Konsole type:

cd /yourdirectory

3. Now install the Opera using command with root privileges:

yum install opera-10.10.gcc4.shared.qt3.i386.rpm

4. Your installation should starting.

After you install Fedora on your PC, you need to configure the software repository in order to install or upgrade the software available for Fedora. Fedora equipped with yum, an application to manage, install or uninstall  software in Fedora.

Repositories that are enabled are represented by .repo files in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. Simple yum commands, described later, can be used to download and install software packages from those repositories. To have access to many more software packages that were built particularly for your version of Fedora, you can enable
more software repositories for yum.

The following command lines can be used to get and install the release packages for the first three repositories on the list and install them for the local system. These commands need to point to different packages for different Fedora releases, so you need to modify them to work with your Fedora release:


# rpm -Uhv http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc5/i386/RPMS.dries/rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
# rpm -Uhv http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

The rpm commands run in these three lines get and install release packages for RPMForge, Livna.org, and FreshRPMS repositories, respectively. The RPMForge example enables that repository for Fedora Core 5, whereas the other two repositories are enabled for Fedora Core 6. There is no release package for the ATrpms repository, so you must add the ATrpms repository manually. Before you do, however, you need to install the ATrpms signing key on your Fedora system by typing the following: (more…)