Fedora 18 Post Installation : Top things to do after installing Fedora 18
Top things to do after installing Fedora 18:
Fedora 18 Post Installation Guide:
>>1) Fedora utils :
Fedora utils is an utility which can help you in installing codecs and extra software.
To install Fedora utils:
su -c "curl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/satya164:/fedorautils/Fedora_18/home:satya164:fedorautils.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedorautils.repo && yum install fedorautils"
>>2) Enable RPM Fusion Repositories:
By enabling RPM Fusion Repositories we can install applications like Vlc, media-codecs, etc which are not available in Fedora official repositories due to some sort of license issues.
To enable RPM Fusion enter the following command:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-18.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-18.noarch.rpm'
>>3)Install Gnome-tweak-tool:
Gnome tweak tool is an utility to customize advance Gnome 3 options:
yum install gnome-tweak-tool
>>4) Install media-codecs and VLC for media playback:
yum install gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly ffmpeg
yum install vlc
>> 5) Install Adobe Flash plugin:
First add adobe repository by entering the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Import Keys:
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Intsall flash plugin:
yum install flash-plugin
>>6) Install OpenJDK Java runtime environment:
su -c 'yum install java-*-openjdk java-*-openjdk-plugin'
>>7) Web Browsers:
Google Chrome:
Go to the link and download the rpm for google chrome and doble click it for installation.
Chromium:
To install chromium, add the chromium repository in "yum.repos" directory:
sudo gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-chromium-stable.repo
Now add the following lines in the new document:
[fedora-chromium-stable] name=Builds of the "stable" tag of the Chromium Web Browser baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 skip_if_unavailable=1 gpgcheck=0
Save the file and install chromium:
yum install chromium
Midori:
yum install midori
>>8) Wine:
Wine is an open source software which helps us to install and run windows applications under Linux platform. To install wine enter the following command:
yum install wine
>>9) Graphic Related Utilities:
Gimp:
yum install gimp
Inkscape:
yum install inkscape
Blender:
yum install blender
>>10) Internet Utilities:
Skype:
Download the setup of Skype for Fedora here.
After downloading just double click the rpm file.
Torrent Clients:
Deluge:
yum install deluge
Qbittorrent:
yum install qbittorrent
FTP client
Filezilla:
yum install filezilla
Gwibber:
Gwibber is a microblogging client.
yum install gwibber
>>11) General Utilities:
Unrar and 7 zip:
yum install unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins
Yum extender:
Yum extender is an advance GUI for yum package manager.
yum install yumex
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