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Fedora 12 Installation

F12 Live CD update Tracker

The following table shows the number of packages available for update on a given date on a Live Fedora 12 system.

Date	No. of Packages	Size	Time(min.)
November 25, 2009	100	94MB	5
November 24, 2009	89	87MB	5
Date	No of Package	Size	Time(min.)

Some facts about Fedora 12 Live DVD

Version information

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:41:45 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Number of packages

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | wc -l
1017

Additional Software Package Installation

Apache Manual

Installation using yum

[root@localhost ~]# yum install httpd-manual
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package httpd-manual.noarch 0:2.2.13-4.fc12 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package              Arch           Version               Repository      Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 httpd-manual         noarch         2.2.13-4.fc12         fedora         767 k 

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Upgrade       0 Package(s) 

Total download size: 767 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
fedora/prestodelta                                       | 1.3 kB     00:00     
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 767 k
httpd-manual-2.2.13-4.fc12.noarch.rpm                    | 767 kB     00:02     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : httpd-manual-2.2.13-4.fc12.noarch                        1/1 

Installed:
  httpd-manual.noarch 0:2.2.13-4.fc12                                           

Complete!

Starting Apache Server

[root@localhost ~]# service httpd start
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[root@localhost ~]# 

To access your Apache Web Server running on the Live DVD

• Open the Firefox Web Browser
• Type the url "http://localhost" into the address box and press ENTER
• Type the url "http://localhost/manual" to access the Apache manual