Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Fedora 16 on Dell Vostro 1510


0. Install wget:
sudo yum install wget

Htop:
sudo yum install htop

1. Install Chromium:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-chromium-on-fedora-using-yum/

Install Libre Office:
sudo yum install libreoffice

2. Install Thunderbird:
sudo yum install thunderbird


3. sudo yum install nano


4. How to install skype:
<code>
sudo nano  /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo
</code>
Content:
[skype] 
name=Skype Repository
gpgcheck=0
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/ gpgkey=


http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc


sudo yum install skype



sudo yum install nautilus-open-terminal


sudo yum install dconf-editor


Enable Delete: http://rusya7.blogspot.com/2011/11/fedora-16-installation-notes-part-3.html


Install Adobe flash player: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash


Install and use Ubuntu fonts : http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/install-ubuntu-fonts-on-fedora-16/

Install git: sudo yum install git-core git-gui

Install mercurial: sudo yum install mercurial subversion

sudo yum install maven

Install Krusader: sudo yum install krusader

Fonts settings: Launch "Advanced Settings", tab "Fonts", All fonts put in  Sans, size 10, "Window Title" = "Sans Bold" size is 10.

Add rpmfusion;:

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

sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
set in all rows: "gpgcheck=0"

Install Archive support packages:
sudo yum install unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins lha arj unace dpkg

Install font:
sudo yum install google-droid-sans-fonts

Fedora Extensions to ease using of Gnome3.

install Development File merge tool:
sudo yum install meld

In GEdit, Edit > Preferences , tab "Editor", "Create backup copy" = false

Gagim Jabber/XMPP client:
sudo yum install gajim

install Oracle server and sqldeveloper:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/downloads/index.html
sudo rpm -i oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html
after installation please launch it from shell to provide path to JDK, without this step launch will hangup.





2 comments:

  1. Did you get the wireless to work? I've been trying all I could from internet sources, but it's not working as of yet :(

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  2. yes it works out of the box, may be we have different wifi cards.

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