Tag: Fedora post installation

Things to do after fresh Fedora 22 installation

After fresh Fedora 22 install, first update the preinstalled software.
The prerequisite to all af the following commands is root access.
su -
dnf update

Add Fusion repository (found this on fosspedro.wordpress.com)
dnf install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-22.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-22.noarch.rpm

Run the update again
dnf update

Install the missing software:

dnf install gnome-tweak-tool gimp inkscape thunderbird bluefish filezilla vlc python-openoffice
dnf install VirtualBox
dnf install dconf-editor
dnf install epiphany

Software for development
dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

Scientific software
dnf install numpy scipy
dnf install python-matplotlib
dnf install python-pandas
dnf install python-ipython

Fedora 22 ships with SciPy version 0.14. To upgrade to 0.15.1 follow these instructions: How to upgrade SciPy on Fedora
To check SciPy version, in python console type:
import scipy
scipy.__version__

Things to do after fresh Fedora 20 install

Open a terminal and become root
su -

Add RPM fusion repository

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Install Flash plugin for 64bit systems
yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm -y
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

Read more about playing flash here.

Install applications according to your needs

yum install gnome-tweak-tool
yum install dconf-editor
yum install gimp
yum install inkscape
yum install thunderbird
yum install bluefish
yum install filezilla
yum install vlc
yum install python-openoffice
yum install VirtualBox

Gnome Weather and Gnome Maps in Fedora 20
Gnome Weather and Gnome Maps in Fedora 20

Install Gnome weather and Gnome maps
yum install gnome-weather
yum install gnome-maps

Fix AltTab behavior so it switches windows only on the active workspace
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/ (does not group windows by application)

Install Chromium browser

Place the repo file and save it as /etc/yum.repos.d/churchyard-chromium-russianfedora.repo

yum install chromium

Enable mp3 and DVD playback
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg ffmpeg mencoder ffmpeg2theora mplayer libdvdcss

yum install gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer1

yum install libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd libdvdcss libdvdcss2

See also: How to install LaTeX and XeLaTeX in Fedora