Fedora 16 crashed after an update. Good time for a fresh installation of Fedora 17.
The installation process provides most of the basic tools (browser, editor…) but some favorites are missing… Here is what I did for the post installation
Packages installation with yumex
First, update your existing packages.
sudo yum update |
Then install yumex that provides a user interface to yum:
sudo yum install yumex |
You can install this package also to speed up the yum searches:
sudo yum install yum-fastestmirror |
Firefox related
Firefox requires the flash plugin for the videos. Many web sites (e.g., Fedora FAQs) provides help on this subject. You need to install the plugin yourself. First, you need to add the repositories:
sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux |
and then the plugin:
sudo yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libcurl.i686 |
Firefox has also many addons. I use the following ones:
xmarks firebug adblock plus |
Install VLC player
VLC is a versatile mp3/video player but it requires to add a repository to the existing yum repositories, which is done as follows:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm' |
sudo yum install vlc
How to install acroread
First, you need to install the repositories
sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux |
and then for Fedora 17 (on x86_64 bit system, 32-bit dependencies is also installed) type:
sudo yum install nspluginwrapper.i686 AdobeReader_enu |
Gnome issues in Fedora 17
where is the desktop ?
Install the following package:
sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool |
Launch gnome-tweak-tool, select Desktop. Set “Have File Manager handle the desktop” to ON.
How to maximize the windows
By default, there are no more minimize/maximize buttons. again , you can start gnome-tweak-tool.
Then, go to Shell and see the “Arrangements of buttons on the titlebar” options.
some useful software for software development and scientific purposes (or not)
Then, the entire command to install the packages I use is:
sudo yum install PyQt4 git-svn thunderbird virtualenv sudo yum install qhull* freeglut* bison flex CGAL-devel sip-devel PyQt4-devel qt4-devel sudo yum install dvipng qscintilla* boost boost-devel boost-python R R-core sudo yum install readline readline-devel flex-static sudo yum install gimp azureus |
sudo vim gvim kile patch wget dos2unix meld |
Python packages
sudo easy_install ipython python-virtual scons nose sphinx rpy2 numpy matplotlib scipy |
unrar
To install some tools such as unrar, you need another repository:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm |
and
sudo yum install unrar |
texlive and inconsolata missing fonts
sudo rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/texlive-release.noarch.rpm yum clean all yum install texlive # if not already installed. yum update yum install tex-inconsolata, tex-inconsolata-font |
References
Reference for Gnome desktop issues: link1.
Other references: smashing web
