Setting-up Fedora 10

The last time I setup my Fedora 9 installation, I did not select the Software Development and Web Server options when I was asked what additional tasks I would like my system to support for.  This time, in Fedora 10, I checked them both.  I wanted to see if post-installation setups will be easier.  I also wanted to check out more applications.

I selected the following packages during installation:

Desktop Environment

• KDE (K Desktop Environment)

Development

• Fedora Eclipse – based on Eclipse 3.4.1
• Java Development – OpenJDK Development Environment
• Web Development

Servers

• MySQL Database
• PostgreSQL Database
• Web Server
  • php-pgsql-5.2.6-5.x86_64

And here are the post-installation setups:

Fedora GPG Keys

You need to import these keys so you won’t get errors regarding unsigned packages when you use the “fedora” and “updates” repositories of Fedora.  In the terminal, type:

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/*

RPM Fusion

From the RPM Fusion site:

RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedoraproject or Red Hat doesn’t want to ship. That software is provided as precompiled RPMs for all current Fedora-Versions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; you can use the RPM Fusion repositories with tools like yum and PackageKit.

RPM Fusion is a merger or Dribble, Freshrpms, and rpm.livna.org; our goal is to simplify end-user experience by grouping as much add-on software as possible in a single location.

In the terminal, type the following

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

and import the RPM Fusion GPG keys as well:

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-*

Nvidia

This package provides the nvidia kernel modules built for the Linux kernel.

yum install kmod-nvidia

UPDATE: Installing NVIDIA Driver on Fedora 10

VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

yum install vlc

Firefox

I use the following firefox plugins:

• Ctrl+Tab
• DownThemAll!
• FaviconizeTab
• Firebug
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
• ScrapBook
• Tiny Menu

I also set the minimum tab width to control tab-scrolling (link).

Adobe Flash Player

Keywords: NBA.com and YouTube.  To install the plugin, go to the Adobe Flash Player Download Center.  Select “.rpm for Linux” from the drop-down items then click “Agree and install now”.  When the dialog box appears, open the package with the Package Installer (default).

Since I’m installing this on a 64-bit Fedora, I still need to install the nspluginwrapper.  In your terminal, type:

yum install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386

Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.

Amarok

To get mp3′s working in Amarok, type the following in your terminal:

yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld

Grip

CD-ripper with database lookup/submission to share track information over the net, supports OGG and FLAC and adding ID3v1/v2 to MP3s.

yum install grip

GnomeBaker

CD/DVD-authoring tool. Keyword: burn.

yum install gnomebaker

Avidemux

I use this to convert video files, particularly .avi‘s to PSP-playable format (.mp4).

yum install avidemux

Unrar

Extract RAR archives.

yum install unrar

P7zip

Extract 7-zip archives.

yum install p7zip

Azureus

A BitTorrent client.

yum install azureus

PHP

mbstring provides multibyte specific string functions that help you deal with multibyte encodings in PHP.

GD library of image functions needs to be compiled with PHP to output image streams directly to a browser.

yum install php-mbstring-*
yum install php-gd

Opera

Go to the Download Opera browser page for x86_64 Linux.  Select Fedora for the distribution and vendor.  When the dialog box appears, open the package with the Package Installer (default).

NetBeans

Cambridge came with NetBeans 6.1, but there’s already version 6.5 from the NetBeans.org site, which “provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich PHP, JavaScript and Ajax editing features.” Go to the NetBeans IDE Download page, then click the download button under All.  This should start the download for netbeans-6.5-ml-linux.sh.  Using the terminal, go to the directory where you downloaded the file and run it.

File Management

When you double-click a folder, the default behavior is opening a new window for that folder. So if you’re opening a file located 5 folders deep, that would open up to 5 windows, which is kind of clattered. So to use the File Browser to navigate through your folders (and not open many windows), go to System > Preferences > Personal > File Management. Under the Behavior tab, click Always Open in browser windows.

When using the File Browser, it’s also nice to view more folders and files without having to scroll. To do that, go to the Views tab and set the List View Defaults to 25%.

That’s all for now. I only went through the setup of the packages that I need to get me going.  I might update this post if I encounter something else missing.