1. yum remove lohit-malayalam
  2. yum install scim-lang-malayalam
  3. su -c ‘yum –enablerepo=updates-testing update im-chooser’
  4. yum install ibus yum install smc-fonts* 
download swanalekha-ml-1-1.fc8.i386.rpm from 
             http://wiki.smc.org.in/Swanalekha
  1. rpm -i swanalekha-ml-1-1.fc8.i386.rpm 
  2. yum update pango libic
  3. yum install aspell-ml swanalekha-ml
  4. yum install smc-fonts-malayalam xkeyboard-config dhvan NOW go to applications and select “select input method” and select ibus and its done