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Ubuntu is losing a lot of fans. Many of them were encouraged to try Fedora 16, the latest version of this tremendous distro.
If you are one of those who decided to take the leap then surely this post will be of great use to you. |
Before we start, let's start by activating administrator privileges:
su -
1. Update Fedora
yum-y update
2. Change Fedora to Spanish
Go to Activities> Applications> System Settings> Region and Language and select Spanish.
3. Install extra repositories
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
4. Improve yum
yum is like Ubuntu's apt-get. By installing a few packages we are going to improve it and make it work faster.
yum -y install yum-plugin-fastestmirror
yum -y install yum-presto
yum -y install yum-langpacks
5. Install Nvidia driver
Activate the RPM Fusion repository with the free and nonfree branches (see step 3)
To install the nVidia drivers from the RPMFusion repositories there are 3 possible commands. You only need to run one of them, but to know which one, it is important that you read the following information:
acmod It is a good option and an easy way to avoid problems in kernel updates (this is the best option in my opinion).
mod save a bit of disk space but you will have problems with each kernel update and therefore you will have to reinstall the drivers with each new kernel.
Users of PAE-kernel (Physical Address Extension). If you are on a 32-bit system (i686) and you have the PAE kernel installed to access more RAM. In that case the ending -PAE is added to the “kmod” packets. For example, kmod-nvidia-PAE. This will install the kernel module for the PAE kernel instead of the regular 32-bit kernel.
Keep in mind that if you are a 32-bit system user (i686) and you have 4Gb of RAM or more, you probably have a PAE kernel, so use that option. On the other hand, if you are a 64-bit system user (x64_64), surely you will not have the PAE kernel, so I only chose akmod or kmod.
Once the scores were cleared up, I chose one of these 3 options:
Using akmod-nvidia
yum install akmod-nvidia-xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Using kmod-nvidia
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Using kmod-nvidia-PAE and PAE-kernel devel
yum install kernel-PAE-devel kmod-nvidia-PAE
Remove nouveau in the initramfs image.
mv / boot / initramfs - $ (uname -r) .img / boot / initramfs - $ (uname -r) -nouveau.img
dracut / boot / initramfs - $ (uname -r) .img $ (uname -r)
Restart your computer.
6. Configure Gnome Shell
This may be the first thing you want to do in fedora, remember that it comes with the Gnome 3 shell interface. To configure it, it is best to install gnome-tweak-tool to modify the theme, fonts, etc. Dconf-editor will allow you to further modify and customize Fedora.
yum install gnome-tweak-tool
yum install dconf-editor
7. Install audio and video codecs
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
8. Install codecs to watch DVDs
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
yum check update
yum install libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd libdvdcss
9. Install Flash
rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum check update
yum -y install flash-plugin
10. Install java + java plugin
yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk
yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
11. Install zip, rar, etc.
yum -y install unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins
12. Install LibreOffice in Spanish
yum install libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress libreoffice-draw libreoffice-langpack-en
13. Install Wine
yum install wine
yum -y install cabextract
You can also install Winetricks (a set of DLLs necessary for the execution of some Windows programs). Once installed, you can run it like this: / usr / bin / winetricks