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[edit] Preparing your computers
We'll have some time on Sunday evening to download and install software (CDs and DVDs with the necessary software will be available) for people who haven't set up their laptops yet. However, it's recommended that you prepare your computers ahead of time so you can spend Sunday night relaxing and getting to know people.
[edit] Minimum requirements
[edit] Preferred: install Fedora 11 POSSE Remix
A POSSE Remix of Fedora 11 with all the necessary development tools can be downloaded and burned to a DVD for installation. This is the simplest all-in-one way to get set up. You can either install it across your entire hard drive or dual-boot your laptop.
The download is directly available, together with the SHA-1 checksum, over HTTP from here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/remixes/POSSE/POSSE-Education-1.iso
391a0170e09e68142cbe2c95b62b2b0c6fa628d5 POSSE-Education-1.iso
More information on the POSSE Remix: https://fedorahosted.org/education/wiki
[edit] If you're already running Fedora 11
That's great! You'll need to install a few packages (preinstalled in the Fedora 11 POSSE Remix).
They're listed on lines 12-92 of https://fedorahosted.org/education/browser/kickstarts/livedvd-education.ks - you should be able to install all the necessary packages by running these two commands (as root):
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop gnome-desktop development-libs development-tools fedora-packager gnome-software-development eclipse virtualization
yum install sugar-emulator giggle gnote kdeedu moodle octave gnuplot firefox java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin xchat-gnome education-bookmarks plymouth-system-theme evince openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer gimp inkscape totem totem-gstreamer totem-mozplugin avahi-gobject-devel avahi-tools enchant-devel fribidi-devel icon-naming-utils icon-slicer libcroco-devel libffi-devel libgsf-devel librsvg2-devel loudmouth-devel olpcsound-devel poppler-glib-devel python-distutils-extra redhat-lsb wv-devel xulrunner-devel-unstable xulrunner-python-devel numpy pygame eclipse-eclox eclipse-texlipse
[edit] If you're running Windows or Mac OS X
Windows only (Mac Os X already has a terminal built in): Download the puTTY executable at http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe and verify that you can run it. putTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Also download and install VirtualBox for your operating system: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
You'll be running Fedora 11 within the emulator. See #Preferred: install Fedora 11 POSSE Remix and get the .iso from the download link. You'll need an additional 1.5GB of space for the image than the default, and will want at least 1GB of RAM; your virtual machine will run significantly slower than if you'd installed Fedora 11 directly on your actual laptop.
See http://www.kombitz.com/2009/06/12/how-to-install-fedora-11-kde-on-virtualbox-2-2/ for a screenshot walkthrough on how to set up Fedora 11 on your virtual machine. Note the following changes:
- instead of "This guide assumes you have downloaded the Fedora 11 KDE iso", you should have downloaded the Fedora 11 POSSE Remix iso as listed above.
- in step 3, name your virtual machine "Fedora 11 POSSE Remix" instead of "Fedora 11 KDE" (this will change the text in steps 8, 10, and 11 from "Fedora 11 KDE" to "Fedora 11 POSSE Remix" as well)
- in step 13, make sure to select POSSE-Education-1.iso for the .iso (instead of ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso, which is what the screenshot shows).
- Your desktop will be GNOME rather than KDE, so your desktop will not look exactly like the screenshot, but it will look quite similar.