Monday, January 5, 2015

Fedora install notes

my install notes


# update fedora 
sudo yum update -y
 
# enable fusion repo 
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm -y
 
# install gnome web 
sudo yum install -y epiphany
 
# download 32 bit google chrome
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm

# download 64 bit google chrome
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

# install google chrome
sudo yum install -y google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
 
# get the key
 sudo rpm --import  https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
 
# install flash repo x86_64 (64-bit)
sudo yum install -y http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

# install flash repo x86 (32-bit)
sudo yum install -y http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
 
# get the key 
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
 
# install flash-plugin 
sudo yum install -y flash-plugin
 
# install some extras 
sudo yum install -y gnome-tweak-tool dconf-editor beesu yumex p7zip-plugins unrar

# install codex
sudo yum -y 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 xmms xmms-mp3 xine xine-lib

# install media players
sudo yum install -y vlc clementine xbmc 

# enable the russian repo
su -c 'yum install --nogpgcheck http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/free/fedora/russianfedora-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/nonfree/fedora/russianfedora-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
sudo yum update

Tweaking the Workstation

         Fedora Workstation screenshots

                 These are the extensions I have loaded. You need to use firefox to activate these as chrome/chromium is broken.









I used the conky mananger to set up the blue conky. The gnome shell theme is Ambrosia and the gtk theme is blue-submarine from MATE's themes.