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Fedora 18 Tips and Tricks
Here are my Fedora 18 Tips and Tricks.
I have installed the new version of Fedora, Fedora 18. Here is how I installed everything to make it usable.
I was having problems finding our old friends at dnmouse who made Autoten/Autoplus. So one of my friends told me about Fedorautils.
To install Fedorautils:
su -c "curl http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fedorautils/fedorautils.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedorautils.repo"
Then,
su -c "yum install fedorautils"
After installation, launch Fedora Utils from Applications > System Tools
or type fedorautils
in the terminal and start installing.
Everything worked great for me. I did need to restart to have the Nvidia drivers work properly, but that is normal.
Now to install the codecs for Fedora 18.
Download http://rpmfusion.org/keys?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-18
and http://rpmfusion.org/keys?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-18
Then you must copy them to your keys directory. Make sure you change the name on the copied file.
su -c 'cp RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-18 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-18-x86_64'
su -c 'cp RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-18 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-18-x86_64'
Now you can install your players and codecs.
su -c 'yum install gstreamer1 gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-libav vlc smplayer'
Another thing you will need is Gnome Teak Tool.
yum install gnome-tweak-tool
Gimp (I use it all the time).
yum install gimp
Libre Office
yum install libreoffice
Here is how to install dropbox on Fedora 18.
Found this how to over on TechnoZeal
http://www.zealfortechnology.com/2013/01/install-dropbox-on-fedora-18.html#comment-form
More to come.
Sorry it took me so long to get around to this.
Fedora 14 Tips and Tricks
After having some issues with Ubuntu 10.10 (blackscreen after an update) I decided to try Fedora 14. I was not real happy with Fedora 12 but thought I would give this disto another try. Like always Fedora leaves out some stuff your really need, like CODECS! The codec search tool that comes with Fedora has never worked, never. So here is how to load all the stuff you need or want in your Fedora 14 Distro. You need to get some other repositories that have the codecs and programs that Fedora does not supply. I like RPM Fusion and try to stay to the stable releases.
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Installing Google Chrome Browser:
To add the google repository edit the file.
gedit /etc /yum.repos.d/google.repo (remove space after etc)
for 32 bit OS Version
[google]
name=Google - i386ff
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
for 64-bit OS Version
[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
Install Google Chrome Stable Version on Fedora 14
Just type this line on the root terminal
yum install google-chrome-stable
Pidgin Chat Client
yum install pidgin
Autoten installer for all kinds of stuff! Including your Codecs, thanks to dnmmouse.org for this nice little installer.
su -c 'yum -y --nogpgcheck install http://dnmouse.org/autoplus-1.2-4.noarch.rpm'
su -c 'rpm --import http://dnmouse.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-dnmouse'
This should have put an Autoten icon on your desktop use that to install all the other codecs you need!
Skype
You need to install some x86 libraries for skype to work on X64 (catch up skype!)
yum install libXScrnSaver.i?86 libX11.i?86 libv4l.i?86 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i?86 qt-x11.i?86
Of course install Yumex one of my favorites.
yum install yumex
Flash-plugin 64bit
Download it from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
Then select the 64 bit tar.
Unpack it then move the .so file to
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.mozilla/plugins/
Restart your browser and you got it. This also causes the Chrome browser to flash to work.
How to Clear your Flash Cache
If you use your computer for web browsing and for watching Flash content. There is a good chance you have a lot of flash information cached on your machine. This can cause you not to see updates on flash enabled sites. Just cleaning out your web cache is not enough, your Flash Media Cache can still have information in it. Here is how to clean out your Flash Cache:
Point your browser to:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
You should see a screen like this:
Now click on the site you want to want to clean up and click on Delete Website, or you can just click on Delete all sites.
You are all set to get the new version of the flash video or flash game you were looking for.
Thanks to the team at BlindValet.com for the tip.
Enjoy,