I am not using this machine much yet, other than as a server. The hardware is described in §15.2.
Things done after a standard F12 install with ``desk-top publishing'' checked (which seems mainly to load OpenOffice):
yum install emacs yum install tcsh usermod -s /etc/tcsh me <run script for checking out personal repos> make-links <personal data linked from separate volume into /home/me> yum install texlive-latex ;; tetex is superseded by texlive ;; copy/pasted from ;; http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installplaneteleven.html rpm -Uvh http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/- planetccrma/12/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc12.ccrma.noarch.rpm yum install jack-audio-connection-kit yum install qjackctl yum install jmess yum install amsynth ;; run as amSynth (!) yum install timidity++ yum install vkeybd yum install multimedia-menus yum install zynaddsubfx zynjacku phasex hydrogen hexter-dssi calf aeolus yum install octave-forge ;; pause yum install yum-fastestmirror yum install rpmreaper yum install zynaddsubfx yum install phasex yum install hydrogen yum install ams yum install whysynth-dssi yum install ardour yum install dssi-calf-plugins yum install bristol yum install aeolus yum install specimen yum install guitarix yum install rakarrack yum install rezound yum install qtractor yum install jamin - [v0.95] yum install lv2-swh-plugins yum install ladspa-swh-plugins ln -s /usr/lib64/ladspa /usr/lib/ladspa ;; jamin, swh-plugins pre-64bit? yum install qt-devel ;; for qmake and SuperCollider ln -s /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 /usr/bin/qmake ;; for faust2jaqt yum install jack-audio-connection-kit-devel ;; for faust2jaqt yum install chromium ;; repo info at ;; http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/04/how-to-install-google-chrome-in-fedora-10-or-fedora-11/ ;; This later failed to update, so I did a new search and found this: ;; http://www.rootninja.com/install-google-chrome-browser-on-fedora-12/ ;; I had to remove /etc/yum.repos/chromium.repo (even to do yum update) ;; There is now a google.repo and the package is now google-chrome-beta yum install maxima ;; for my sporadic symbolic math needs yum install octave-devel ;; for .oct file compilation yum install qtoctave ;; eval yum install plplot-octave ;; eval svn co https://guitarix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/guitarix/trunk guitarix yum install libsndfile-devel ;; for guitarix cvs compile yum install gtkmm24-devel ;; for guitarix cvs compile yum install ladspa-devel ;; for guitarix cvs compile ;; NOTE: The following configuration had to be abandoned when I upgraded ;; F12 to F14 - apparently pulseaudio autostarts JACK, when needed, using ;; an obsolete protocol (8) resulting in a infinite loop of jackd starts and ;; crashes: ;; configure pulseaudio to go through JACK as describe at ;; http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Musicians_Guide/sect-Musicians_Guide-Integrating_PulseAudio_with_JACK.html ;; : emacs /etc/pulse/default.pa load-module module-jack-sink load-module module-jack-source killall pulseaudio ;; configure qjackctl not to 'killall jackd' on exit yum install gspicegui ;; messing around with SPICE: gschem, geda yum install stk-devel ;; making sure latest version does not conflict yum install pdftk ;; needed by pdfcrop (Python version) yum install poster ;; needed by pdfcrop (Python version) yum install jack-keyboard ;; like vkeybd but outputs to a JACK MIDI port (no controllers) ;; install tarball for a2jmidid ;; need vkeybd controllers routed to JACK MIDI port ;; from http://download.gna.org/a2jmidid/?C=M;O=A yum install w3m emacs-w3m ;; Emacs text-mode HTML viewer [SC help needs] ;; manually install pal-0.4.2 from tarball [a command-line calendar utility] yum install rosegarden4 ;; music sequencer app yum install dssi-examples ;; curious yum install dssi-devel ;; hoping pkg-config will help rosegarden find yum install qsynth ;; checking it out yum install clthreads-devel ;; for compiling zita-rev1 ;; install tarball for libclxclient-3.6.1 and do a 'make install', for zita-rev1