Fedora 17 Post Installation Guide

Fedora 17 also known as Beefy Miracle is the latest version of Fedora distro. It comes with many new features and software updates.

Fedora 17 features Linux Kernel 3.3.4, Gnome 3.4 and KDE SC 4.8.

Note: Almost every command shown here requires root privileges. So make sure you are logged in as root. Run su command to login as root.

Rpmfusion Repo

RPM Fusion Repository includes variety of applications which are not included in the main distro. Like mp3 codec, multimedia player for playing DVDs and many more.

It is highly recommended that you install RPM Fusion repo because many of the following packages require you to install RPM Fusion otherwise it will not work

yum install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

MP3 playback

Rythmbox

Rythmbox is likely that it will be installed by default. If not installed then you can install it very easily.

yum install rhythmbox

The default installation of rhytmbox wont allow you to play mp3. To play mp3 you need to add the codes

yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Amarok

AmaroK is the default audio player for KDE. It can also be installed on Gnome.

yum install amarok phonon-backend-gstreamer

Audacious

Audacious is a winamp like audio player

yum install audacious audacious-plugins

XMMS

XMMS is another winamp like audio player. And its one of my favorite. Its better than audacious in my eyes

yum install xmms xmms-mp3

Banshee

Banshee allows you to import CDs, sync your music collection to an iPod, play music directly from an iPod, create playlists with songs from your library, and create audio and MP3 CDs from your music library.

yum install banshee banshee-community-extensions

Video and DVD Playback

VLC player

VLC player is the best video player for Linux. It is capable of playing almost every video format.

yum install vlc

XINE

Xine is another video player for Linux. It is very much like vlc player

yum install xine xine-lib xine-lib-extras-freeworld

Mplayer with SM Player GUI

Mplayer is a VLC player like player for Linux. It is capable of playing almost all video and audio formats.

yum install mplayer smplayer

Totem

Totem is the default video player for Fedora 17.

yum install totem-xine xine-lib xine-lib-extras-freeworld

Adobe Flash Player

Add the Adobe repo

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 yum install flash-plugin

Install Flash Player

yum install flash-plugin

Acrobat Reader

Add adobe YUM Repo

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

Install Adobe reader

yum install AdobeReader_enu

Google Chrome

Add Google YUM Repo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

And paste the following

Fedora 32-bit

[google-chrome] name=google-chrome – 32-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Fedora 64-bit

[google-chrome] name=google-chrome – 64-bit baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Save the file using ":wq".

Install Google Chrome

yum install google-chrome-stable

Other Applications

Filezilla

Filezilla is a FTP client and its one of the best

yum install filezilla

7z or p7zip

yum install p7zip

Unrar

Unrar utility for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver version 1.50 and above.

yum install unrar

Transmission bittorrent client

Transmission is a lightweight bittorrent client for Linux platform.

yum install transmission

Wine

Wine is a is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on Linux. It can run many windows applications even some games in Linux.

yum install wine

Gimp

Gimp is the most advanced Image Editor for Linux. This gimp has lot of useful features useful.

yum install gimp yum install gimp-data-extras gimpfx-foundry gimp-lqr-plugin gimp-resynthesizer gnome-xcf-thumbnailer