Linux Lab

The Department has been operating a UNIX Lab since 1998 using the IBM AIX operating system. During the Summer of 2006 the UNIX lab, now in room B103, will be updated with new computers. The new machines will operate with the Fedora Core Linux operating system version 5.

Applications to be Installed

Function	Application name(s)	Version	Ref.
Web Browser	Mozilla Firefox	1.5
Web Browser	Netscape	1.8
Office Productivity Suite (WordProcessing, Spreadsheet, Presentations, Simple DB)	OpenOffice (Draw)
Office Productivity	KOffice (Kword, KSPread, KPresent, Kexi, Kivio, KPlato, KChart, KFormula, Karbon14, Krita)		KOffice web site
Authoring and Publishing	xpdf,tetex-xdvi,gview,gs
Graphics	GIMP
C, C++, C# Programming	GNU C, GDB, Mono
Compilers Writing	Flex, Bison
Fortran Programming	GNU Fortran
Java Programming	JGraph
Perl Programming
PHP Programming
Computer Programming Interfaces (IDE suites)	Eclipse
Computer Programming Interfaces (IDE suites)	Kdevelop
Computer Programming Interfaces (IDE suites)	DrPython
GUI Designer	KDevDesigner
Web Editor	NVU, Quanta Plus
File Editor	vi,vim-X11,vim-enhanced,emacs,xemacs,nedit,
Shells	ksh,tcsh,bash
Administration Tools	lvm,printer,services

Things to remember & test during installation

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General settings:

• tcsh link
• yum.conf -> packages are stored on /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages - should be deleted on reqular basis? (/var on olympia was full)
• can we configure mozilla/netscape, for all users to accosiate pdf with acrobat?
  • Just install the plugin in the mozilla/firefox installation directory under plugins and they should be able to view pdf files inside the browser window -- nsc
  1. Download the adobe aacrobat reader rpm from the adobe site and install it
  2. Run the command /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/install_browser_plugin to install the plugin for the browser
  3. Select Global Installation
  4. When asked where the browser is installed enter the path where firefox is installed (e.g.:/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/)
  5. If you you want to install it for mozilla and netscape answer y to the question Do you want to install another browser ? [y/n] and repeat the previous step with the right path
  6. Check your browsers .... DONE -- nsc
• man pages setup (for both shells)
• Manifold /gcc/fotran
• we should include in crontab scripts for daily and weekly jobs (i.e remove core files, log files etc, clean printer queues). The scripts can be placed on a common place, so as to add/remove commands easily

Helpful links

* Install with latest packages using kickstart setup: 

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/02/17/kickstart_updates.html?page=2