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Fedora 16 Configuration Notes

Updates

yum update -y

Install Software

yum install wget vim-enhanced smartmontools remmina whois thunderbird esound-tools gimp keepassx remmina-* @office

Browser Tweaks

Desktop Tweaks

As a regular user:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background true

Multimedia

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg

Flash

32-bit:

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

64-bit:

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Then install (32 or 64-bit):

yum check-update
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

Dropbox

Installation

64-bit:

rpm -ivh http://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm

32-bit:

rpm -ivh http://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1-1.fedora.i386.rpm

Configuration

See Dropbox.

Skype

Set up the repository:

cat >> /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo << EOF

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586
enable=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

EOF

and install:

yum install skype

Windows TrueType Fonts

yum -y install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir
rpm -ivh http://easylinux.info/uploads/msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch.rpm --nodeps

Rip DVDs

yum localinstall -y http://repo.missingbox.co.nz/repo/fedora/missingbox-1-1.noarch.rpm --nogpgcheck
yum install HandBrake-gui libdvdcss

Decode DVDs

64-bit:

rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/f16-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc16.x86_64.rpm

32-bit:

rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/f16-i386/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc16.i686.rpm

Win32 Codecs:

cd /tmp/
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
tar xfvj all-20071007.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/lib/codecs/
cp all-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs/
ln -s /usr/lib/codecs/ /usr/lib/win32

Java

Sun/Oracle

If you're not a programmer, you probably want to use the Java Runtime Edition (JRE) instead of the JDK.

You also probably want to verify the architecture of your system and match it (32-bit vs. 64-bit).

Java 6

Java 7

Kompozer HTML Editor

rpm -ivh http://olea.org/paquetes-rpm/olea-repo-release-0.0.3-1olea.noarch.rpm
yum install kompozer
computing/linux/fedora_16_notes.1323386220.txt.gz · Last modified: 2011/12/08 16:17 by gcooper