Fedora 21

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Fedora-21 anaconda 21.6-1 installer

  • This is the installer from a fedora-Live-MATE-Compiz-x86_64-rawhide-20131116 Mate LiveCD in Oracle VM VirtualBox
This is a Preliminary (rawhide) version and will be modified before f21 is released.
11/17/2013
  • Install done from root Mate terminal
  • Note is the same installer is on the DVD and netinstall Installers but with more options.

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  • liveinst command in root terminal

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  • >Preliminary introductory screens are not shown (Language and keyboard)<
  • Anaconda Main Hub
Note that Time Zone is not correct so we select the Date & Time spoke to change it:

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  • Time Zone selected
[Done} to return to main Hub
  • [Installation Destination] spoke selected

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  • [Installation Destination] spoke selected

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  1. select type of partition to create in Drop Down menu
  2. Custom formatting (advanced formatting)
These Options are not covered here
  1. [x]Encrypt My Data
encrypts /home
  • [continue} to return to main Hub

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  • [Begin Installation] selected in Main Hub
Bottom right corner

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  • Configuration
Root Password and User Creation
Select Password and User Creation to enter their spokes and return with [Done]
  • A weak Password will require entering [done] 2 times to return to main Configuration Spoke
See yellow warning in bottom of page

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  • Root Password

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  • User Creation

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  • Installing Software
% completion until [Done]-Reboot appears
  • Reboot and log in
Remember to check that installation DVD/CD (or .iso in VM) is removed before retarting
This may not occur automaticaly with a live .iso-DVD/CD

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  • Log In to User

Turn off gnome automatic background updates

To turn off background downloading of updates and forced 10 minute updates on boot of gnome3.10.1
  • Root terminal
yum install dconf-editor
  • User Terminal
dconf-editor
gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/updates 
Uncheck [ ] auto updates
  • see gnome Bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719304

SoaS v10 testing with activities not included in the standard distribution

Bug Reports

  • Blockers Bugs info
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Trackers

New proposed Features

AppInstaller in F21

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstallerContinued

"gnome-software will support installing system add-ons such as fonts and codecs. It will show additional metadata for applications: screenshots, ratings, other details.
We will also work with the Fedora infrastructure team to obtain the metadata online for all applications instead of shipping it statically for a limited set."