Personal Scientific Linux 6 Installation Guide

BiffSocko

I tried to model this after the "Personal Fedora [version] Installation Guide" that Mauriat Miranda of http://www.mjmwired.net produces. His are MUCH MUCH better, you can check them out here: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/. I find his guides incredibly helpful, so when I started using Scientific Linux I thought I'd put something together that might help others as well.

#!/bin/sh

#A list of repositories:https://www.scientificlinux.org/community/repo

rpm -Uvh http://elgis.argeo.org/repos/6/elgis-release-6-6_0.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm

#install google chrome browser

echo "[google-chrome]" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
echo "name=google-chrome - 64-bit" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
echo "baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
echo "enabled=1" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
echo "gpgcheck=1" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
echo "gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
yum -y install chrome

#update the system

yum -y update

#install various system utilities, video stuff, programming packages

yum -y install ant arj audacity autopano-sift-C bash-completion digikam dosbox dvdauthor dvgrab easymock easytag emacs enblend flash-plugin geeqie gimp git gitk gnome-mplayer gnome-volume-manager gnucash gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-ugly gthumb gtkpod htop hugin ImageMagick java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin java-1.6.0-openjdk-src k3b-extras-freeworld kdebase kdegraphics kdiff3 kino kover ktorrent lame-mp3x libcddb libdvdcss liberation-fonts-common liberation-mono-fonts liberation-narrow-fonts liberation-sans-fonts liberation-serif-fonts mencoder mjpegtools mozplugger mp3gain ncftp obexfs OpenEXR OpenEXR_Viewers openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-writer parcellite pidgin-otr qemu-launcher qtpfsgui quicksynergy rdesktop samba subversion thunderbird thunderbird-lightning transcode ufraw ufraw-gimp unrar vcdimager vdr-mp3 vlc w3m wine wireshark-gnome xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld xmms xmms-faad2 xmms-mp3 xmms-pulse xchat eclipse gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-ugly libcdaudio w3m libx264 mjpegtools libsidplay libquicktime libkate automake autoconf jna gc libid3tag amrwb gstreamer-java-swt gstreamer-java gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-vaapi eclipse-swt gnome-mplayer

#install adobe reader

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install nspluginwrapper.i686 AdobeReader_enu