What to do after installing Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle

With a few days late, finally I arrive Fedora 17 to our hands.

This post installation guide was made from the beginning for novice and not so much that they have just started 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 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.

1. 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

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 necessary for the execution of some Windows programs). Once installed, you can run it like this: / usr / bin / winetricks

Yapa: automatic installers

There is a variety of scripts that allow us to automate a large part of the tasks to be carried out after the installation of Fedora. Among them, it is worth mentioning easy life y Fedora Utility.


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  1.   Jesse Corrales said

    Excellent guide! just what I needed 🙂

  2.   Adan soler said

    Excellent friend! Thank you! It served me a lot, I'm starting with this world of linux

  3.   Raul Gonzalez said

    If you want something easy and fast this «Fedora Utils» to install all the essentials and the audio and video codecs as well as extra software from the terminal.

    su -c "curl
    http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fedorautils/fedorautils.repo -o
    /etc/yum.repos.d/fedorautils.repo && yum install fedorautils »

    or use * .rpm> http://fedorautils.sourceforge.net/

  4.   Edwin said

    Hi, you won't have a manual for ATI drivers out there. greetings thank you

  5.   federico bonino said

    Thank you very much for the guide, I use linux for two months, and this page is the best there is, it helps and one learns a lot about this wonderful world of linux, after using ubuntu for almost two months, I switched to fedora 17 with kde and like much more. It is a very good and very flexible distro, thank you very much for the guide and for the page that is the best

  6.   Let's use Linux said

    I am happy that is was useful for you!
    A hug! Paul.

  7.   Let's use Linux said

    That good! Hug! Paul.

  8.   Juank said

    a little while ago I finished installing this great distro, your guide suits me like a glove 😉 a hug Pablo !!

  9.   Rolando said

    the nvidia driver installation does not work, what a bad leg, will have to do it manually

  10.   Diego Campos said

    Simply an excellent guide to Fedora.

    Cheers(:

  11.   Let's use Linux said

    Thank you! Hug! Paul.

  12.   Saito Mordraw said

    Excellent guide: concise and very helpful (as good guides should be).

    You signed up a 10 😉

  13.   Ariel Escobar Lopez said

    very good guide, the only thing that has me disappointed in fedora 17 is that my ipod touch does not recognize me

  14.   Arthur Osorio said

    Very good contribution

  15.   o2bith said

    Thanks for the guide, in my case the truth is that I am very satisfied with Fedora 17, it goes very fast and is very stable. In my particular case I don't need to install Nvidia anyway I have both monitors running without doing anything additional. Salu2.

  16.   frances said

    Hello I tried to install the java but it gave me that it was already installed in its latest version, but when I launch the application that needs the java plugin I get again that the java plugin is not installed yet, what could I do?
    Thank you

  17.   eddie said

    nice ...

  18.   Jenrry Soto Dexter said

    hello friend and the consumption of enrgia you have something because fedora 17 with gnome shell lasts me almost 3 hours, thanks

  19.   Jenrry Soto Dexter said

    hello for you to manage the brightness of your laptop put this if your monitor identifies it as LVSD1 put in the terminal as root this: xrandr –output LVDS1 –brightness 0.5 where 0.5 is the level of screen brightness.

  20.   Jenrry Soto Dexter said

    hello friends I installed this and now when I install something it tells me in the end that it does not exist it connects me to the servers of Argentina and Brazil yum-plugin-fastestmirror yum-presto yum-langpacks
    now I want to delete them and put it how it was before, thanks

  21.   Gustavo Nuñez said

    Excellent blog, if you have more tools or links of interest, I would appreciate them if you publish

  22.   disqus_Y34wYThXjG said

    I installed the Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle update and when rebooting the machine it doesn't seem to load the video drivers. Any suggestion?

  23.   Cesar Gabriel Guaimas Rosado said

    Excellent tutorial !!! thanks: D!

  24.   Jose Miguel Morales Martinez said

    Can't you extend your post with the installation of ATI drivers? I have not been able to because it breaks my system when I put the drivers that I download from the main ATI page.

    regards

  25.   Ivan Reyes said

    I get this error: database disk image is malformed

    when I run yum -y update I don't know why.

  26.   Let's use Linux said

    Thanks Gustavo!
    We will publish them ... 🙂
    A hug! Paul.

    2012/11/7