How to install Joomla on Fedora Core 4

[kojo]

I am interested in installing Joomla on my Fedora Core 4 Webserver? Does anyone have any suggestions?

[sbovisjb1]

First you have to configure yum.

* Open the terminal. Type:

wget http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/fc4/i386/RPMS.dries/rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm

Hit enter. Wait for the download to complete. Type:

su

Hit enter. Type your root password. Hit enter. Type:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Hit enter. wait for the installation to complete. Type:

rm *.rpm

Type "y". Hit enter. Type:

su -

Hit enter. Type:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo

Hit enter and gedit will open. Type the following in gedit:

[core]
name=FreshRPMS-Core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
[updates]
name=FreshRPMS-Updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMS-Fresh
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. Type the following in the root terminal:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo

Hit enter and gedit will open. Type the following in gedit:

[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc4/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit. Type the following in the root terminal:

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/newrpms.repo

Hit enter and gedit will open. Type the following in gedit:

[newrpms.sunsite.dk]
name=Fedora Core 4 i386 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/$basearch/fc$releasever
http://newrpms.atrpms.net/apt/redhat/en/$basearch/fc$releasever
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Be sure there is a carriage return (blank line) at the bottom of the file. Click the "save" icon in gedit and then close gedit.

* While still in the root terminal type:

rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

Hit enter. Type:

rpm --import http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt

Hit enter. Type:

rpm --import http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/gpg-pubkey-newrpms.txt

Hit enter. Type:

rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/*GPG-KEY*

Hit enter. You have just imported the GPG keys for your yum repositories. Type:

yum update

Hit enter. Your system will be updated. Answer "y" for "yes" in the appropriate places. Reboot.

Then just type in "yum install joomla" as root

[falko]

Is Apache already installed on your system? Then the default document root is /var/www/html, and you can install Joomla there as described in the Joomla installation notes.