Fedora Core (FC) has this awesome release cycle of 6 months and every time they come out with a new version it's great. The downside, I've got to do an upgrade or a fresh install every six months. While they do their best to enable users to upgrade to the next version, sometimes you just have to do a fresh install. And then it takes me about six months to get the system customized and working with everything I want (not need).
So the idea of this post is to help me reduce that time the next time I do a fresh install. I plan to list all the 'new software' I install here along with instructions (and links) for easier use next time.
- After the fresh install do a 'yum -y update'. This will ensure every thing's up-to-date
- Add my user name to the sudoers file. Edit the /etc/sudoers file and add the following line after the Defaults section. The Defaults section is a bunch of lines starting with the word Defaults. When you edit the /etc/sudoers file add the following line to it:
<username> ALL=(ALL) ALL. This will enable the sudo command with all sudo permissions to username. Not the most secure, but the most convienient. - Install synergy
- Install the rpmfusion repositories for yum using the command:
sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm - Run the following commands:
- sudo yum install kdenlive
- sudo rpm -ivh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
- sudo yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libcurl.i686
- sudo yum install tiger*vnc*server*
- sudo yum -y update
