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With a few days late, finally I arrive Fedora 17 to our hands.
This post-installation guide was made from the beginning for novices and not-so-novices who are just starting out in the world of Fedora Linux. |
Before we start, let's start by activating administrator privileges:
su -
and enter the administrator password.
1. Update Fedora
After giving root privileges, the next thing is to update the system. This is 100% recommended, in order to avoid any errors and to be able to install everything with the most recent packages.
yum-y update
2. Put Fedora in Spanish
Navigate to Activities> Applications> System Settings> Region and Language and select Spanish.
3. Install extra repositories
RPM Fusion is the most important (and almost mandatory to add) additional repository in Fedora. It includes a large part of the package that Red Hat does not include by default in its distributions for licensing or patent reasons, so this repository is essential to, for example, install the multimedia playback codecs. This is because Fedora intends to offer free alternatives to proprietary code and content to make it completely free and redistributable.
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
To finish, we must update our repositories:
sudo yum check-update
We update:
sudo yum update
Now if we are ready to install proprietary drivers and codecs on our computer
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 Nvidia drivers from the RPMFusion repositories, there are three possible commands. You only need to run one of them , but to find out which one, it's important that you read the following information:
akmod is a good option and an easy way to avoid problems in kernel updates (this is the best option in my opinion).
kmod saves a little disk space but you'll have problems with every kernel update and therefore you'll have to reinstall the drivers with each new kernel.
PAE (Physical Address Extension) kernel users . If you are on a 32-bit (i686) system and have the PAE kernel installed to access more RAM, you add the -PAE suffix to the "kmod" packages. 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.
1. With that clarified, choose 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
2. 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)
3. 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
32-bit flash:
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import / etc / pki / rpm-gpg / RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum check update
yum -y install flash-plugin
64-bit flash:
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import / etc / pki / rpm-gpg / RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum check update
yum -y install flash-plugin
10. Install java + java plugin
OpenJDK, the open version of Java that is sufficient for most tasks. However, if you are a Java developer, you may want to install the official version of Sun Java.
yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk
yum -y install java-1.7.0-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 required to run some Windows programs). Once installed, you can run it like this: /usr/bin/winetricks
Yapa: automatic installers
There are a variety of scripts that allow us to automate many of the tasks performed after installing Fedora. Among them are Easylife and Fedora Utils.