Thursday, November 10, 2011

My Fedora 15 road map

- If you have had problems with automatically mounting LUKS partition, see my post addressing the issue here

- Add repositories:
-- RPM Fusion (free)
#---
rpm -Uvhi http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
#---


-- RPM Fusion (non-free)
#---
rpm -Uvhi http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
#---



#---
rpm -Uvhi http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvhi http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
#---



-- Adobe (Flash plugin, AdobeAIR and AcrobatReader) 32 bits:
#---
rpm -Uvhi http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
#---


-- Adobe Flash for 64bits:
#---
rpm -Uvhi http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
#---


-- Chromium (for Fedora here):
#---
wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-chromium-stable.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-chromium.repo
#---


-- Setting up a not-so-restricting SELinux: here


-- Remove things I do NOT like (do not remove xine if you prefer KDE):

--- Multimedia players that do not play divx/mp3 and stays as default for video and audio files:
#---
yum -y erase \
xine \
gxine* \
totem* \
brasero*
#---


--- This is REALLY annoying, it prevents mplayerplug-in from working properly:
#---
yum -y erase \
mozplugger
#---


-- Update your system:
#---
yum -y upgrade
#---


- Install additional software:

-- Chromium:
#---
yum -y install \
chromium
#---


-- Multimedia:
#---
yum -y install \
alsa-tools \
alsamixergui \
mplayer \
mencoder \
live555 \
gecko-mediaplayer \
gnome-mplayer \
vlc \
grip \
flash-plugin \
adobeair \
k3b \
k3b-extras-freeworld
#---


Because Adobe Reader is usually very slow to download, I keep it separated and leave it to be last installed.
#---
yum -y install \
AdobeReader_enu
#---


-- Spell-checking
--- Additional languages: German (de), Spanish (es), and Portuguese from Brazil (br)
#---
yum -y install \
hunspell-de \
hunspell-es \
hunspell-pt
#---


-- Audacious (XMMS is not that great anymore):
#---
yum -y install \
audacious \

audacious-plugin-fc \
audacious-plugins-amidi \
audacious-plugins-exotic \
audacious-plugins-freeworld-aac \rpmfusion-free-updates
audacious-plugins-freeworld-ffaudio \
audacious-plugins-freeworld-mms. \
audacious-plugins-freeworld-mp3 \
audacious-plugins-freeworld \
audacious-plugins-jack \
audacious-plugins-sid \
audacious-plugins \
audacious-plugin-xmp

#---

-- Pidgin, a very good IM client
#---
yum -y install \
pidgin \
pidgin-guifications \
pidgin-libnotify \
pidgin-otr \
pidgin-gfire \
pidgin-musictracker \
purple-plugin_pack-pidgin \
purple-plugin_pack-pidgin-xmms \
purple-facebookchat \
purple-microblog \

pidgin-sipe \
purple-msn-pecan
#---


--- If you use LaTeX you may find this plugin appealing:
#---
yum -y install \
pidgin-latex
#---


-- For kernel modules
#---
yum -y install \
kernel-PAE-devel \
kernel-headers
#---


--- For 64bit or old processors (non-PAE)
#---
yum -y install \
dkms \
kernel-devel \
kernel-headers
#---


-- Nautilus plug-ins
#---
yum -y install \
nautilus-open-terminal \
nautilus-search-tool \
nautilus-flac-converter \
nautilus-extensions
#---


-- Misc

--- Backups with Back In Time:
#---
yum -y install \
backintime-common \
backintime-gnome
#---


--- Diagrams and images, usually old stuff that I'm used to
#---
yum -y install \
ImageMagick \
graphviz \
dia \
gv \
xfig \
gnuplot \
inkscape
#---


--- Editors and related
#---
yum -y install \
gvim \
ctags \
dictd \
diction
#---


--- My beloved spreadsheet program
#---
yum -y install \
gnumeric
#---


--- Compression related programs
#---
yum -y install \
unrar \
p7zip
#---


--- Administration related programs
#---
yum -y install \
telnet \
lsof \
nmap \
nc \
traceroute \
mc \
tsclient \
AcetoneISO2 \
rdesktop
#---


--- Very nice "must-have" admin programs:
#---
yum -y install \
keepassx \
system-config-display \
gnome-password-generator
#---


--- For WLAN Cracking
#---
yum -y install \
aircrack-ng \
airsnort
#---


--- NVIDA
#---
yum -y install \
akmod-nvidia \
kmod-nvidia-PAE \
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
#---


-- Note about the driver:
It messes the font resolution up (IMHO). So to keep the same aspect between the normal driver and the NVIDIA driver you need to edit the file: [/etc/X11/xorg.conf] and add the following line in the section Device:

Option "DPI" "90 x 90"

My section device looks like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
#Driver "nouveau"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DPI" "90 x 90"
EndSection


-- Development
--- Some helper programs
#---
yum -y install \
ant
#---


--- My beloved debugging program
#---
yum -y install \
ddd
#---


--- Debug related programs
#---
yum -y install \
gdb \
gcc \
strace \
ltrace
#---


--- For SVN support:
#---
yum -y install \
rapidsvn
#---


--- For GIT support:
#---
yum -y install \
git-all
#---


-- Update your system:#---
yum -y upgrade
#---


- Install and setup third-part programs
-- VirtualBox/VMware Player
-- Skype
-- Real Player (check for the RPM version)
-- Sun Java
-- Eclipse
-- NetBeans

- Setup printers
- Backup [/etc] and [/boot/grub]
#---
tar -czf bkp-system.`/bin/date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"`.tgz /etc /boot/grub
#---


- Some issues:
-- Acrobat Reader install its Firefox/Mozilla plug-in, which has a memory leak. I recommend to remove it. To do so:
-- Skype may need some extra configuration (see link for 64bits) and some SELinux relaxation (see link for SELinux).

#---
rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so
#---


Related posts:
- Installing Skype in 64bits (external link)
- Mounting former LUKS partition
- SELinux
- Road map for Fedora 13
- Making USB to work with VirtualBox (external link)
- Adding security to SSH
- Backups with Back In Time

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