Workstation setup
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Centos 5.5
once installed run the following as root.
yum update centos-release yum clean all yum update
Install repos
RPMFORGE 32bit OS wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm 64bit OS wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm Atomic wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh Chromium 32bit OS wget ftp://ftp.linux-powered.com/CentOS/5.x/Chromium/i386/RPMS/chromium-repo-5-1.el5.i386.rpm rpm -ivh chromium-repo-5-1.el5.i386.rpm 64bit OS wget ftp://ftp.linux-powered.com/CentOS/5.x/Chromium/x86_64/RPMS/chromium-repo-5-1.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh chromium-repo-5-1.x86_64.rpm Virtualbox echo -e "[virtualbox]\nname=RHEL/CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox\nbaseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/rhel/$releasever/$basearch\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo
Install stuffs
yum install chromium virtualbox thunderbird firefox pidgin tightvnc synergy-1.3.1-1 kernel kernel-devel gcc-c++
Now I recommend that you block a few things from updating.
vim /etc/yum.conf exclude=synergy* kernel* firefox* thunderbird*
video drivers
32bit OS with an 8 series video card (ie 8400gs)
cd /root wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/290.10/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run
64bit OS with an 8 series video card (ie 8400gs)
cd /root wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/290.10/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run
Now after these have been obtained su - to root, then run init 3, once you are at runlevel 3 type the following:
/root/NVIDIA-Linux-x86(tab complete it for the arcitecture you downloaded) confirm through yes on everything. when back at prompt type reboot.
This should be enought to get you going. will add more soon.