Fedora 15 A perfect Desktop

Things to do after install fedora 15

Things to do after install fedora 15 is a good quesiton always. For a Complete desktop for a user we need more softwares for MP3, DVD and Video playback/recording etc… For this reason you have to install that software from third party repositories. RPM Fusion is a third party repository consists all of other softwares for better media support.

Gnome shell Tweaks for Fedora 15

You need some tweaks for gnome shell to use in fedora 15. You can have the gnome-tweak-tool to tweak the settings, interface, fonts, themes etc..
Just install

yum install gnome-tweak-tool

Prepare Yum for Fast Installation in Fedora 15

* Fastest Mirror Plugin

yum install yum-fastestmirror

The fasterstmirror will find the fastest mirror near you and download with great speed.

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader in Fedora 15

Next we add the adobe repository for downloading Acrobat Reader, by running this at the terminal

rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpmrpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linuxyum install AdobeReader_enu

Just Start the Acrobat Reader from Applicaitons > office > Acrobat reader.

Internet Applicaitons for fedora 15

The firefox 4.0.1 is the default browser in fedora 15. But Chrome is a better alternative. You can add the repository and install google chrome on fedora 15 very easly.

Installing Google chrome in Fedora 15

To add the google repository edit the file.

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

for 32 bit OS Version
[google]

name=Google - i386ff

baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

for 64-bit OS Version

[google64]

name=Google - x86_64

baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Install Google Chrome Stable Version on Fedora 15

Just type this line on the root terminal

yum install google-chrome-stable


Or You can download the google chrome browser from chrome website. Download the rpm file
to install you need the dependency lsb
to install that

yum install redhat-lsb

Then try to install the downloaded rpm by just double click on it or in terminal

rpm -ivh google-chrome-stable_current.rpm

Install Opera on Fedora 15

You can download Opera browser from opera’s Official Webiste. Opera is the most advanced browser with HTML 5 and CSS 3 support.
Just double click on the rpm will install the browser without a hazile.

Install Pidgin on Fedora 15

Pidgin is an alternative for the default empathy IM Client. Some times it works better with webcams.

yum install pidgin

Install Google talk Plugin in Fedora 15

Just download the rpm from Google Talk Website and install it. Download from http://www.google.com/chat/video/download.html . 

Just double click on the rpm on the downloads. Type the root password. It will automatically install.

Install skype on Fedora 15

Skype is a good IM client for all operating system. You can chat, Video and Audio call with unmatched voice clarity and video quality over internet.
Just download from skype website.
Just double click on the rpm. It will install automatically.

Install Google talk on Fedora 15

The google talk plugin will help you to call your friends from gmail interface. It now supports video calling. You can download this plugin from google website

Graphics Appications for fedora 15

Gimp

the most advanced Image Editor in Linux. The latest Coming Version will have great features. This is included in the default package. If not just install

yum install gimp

Inkscape

The best vector editor application in free software. Good for creating svg files.

yum install inkscape

Google Picasa

picasa application for organizing and editing digital photos. You can download picasa from google.

rpm, for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva i386 or x86_64:

http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386/picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm

Xara Xtreme

Xara is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD and (in development) OS-X.

Office Applications for Fedora 15

Libreoffice is the official office package for Fedora 15

The total libreoffice package is available on the DVD package. You can install openoffice.org seperatly.

Libre Office 3.3.0 on Fedora 15

LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is the clone of Openoffice.org from document foundation. Lot of improvements and bug fixes from openoffice.org done by the libreoffice team. Also other distros are supporting this office suite.
Download : Libreoffice
Extract the file and install
rpm -ivh RPMS/*.rpm

Scribus on fedora 15

Scribus is an desktop open source page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript, primarily, though not exclusively for Linux.While the goals of the program are for ease of use and simple easy to understand tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, easy PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of color separations.

yum install scribus

Video Codecs for Fedora 15

To play various Video formats we need some codecs.

Gstreamer

yum install gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

FFMpeg

FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs

K3b MP3 decoder plugin

When you start k3b it says no mp3 decoder plugin. to install
yum install k3b-extras-freeworld.

DVD and Video Players for Fedora 15

DVD playback
In order to play DVDs you must install the appropriate codecs.

yum install libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd

you can use Livna for installing libdvdcss.

su -

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

yum install libdvdcss

VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Mplayer / SMplayer / Gnome Mplayer

MPlayer is a movie player that plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and PVA files. You can also use it to watch VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. It supports a wide range of output drivers including X11, XVideo, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB etc. There are also nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.

yum install mplayer mplayer-gui smplayer gnome-mplayer

Kaffeine

Kaffeine is KDE Mediaplayer with xine engine.

yum install kaffeine

Avidemux

Avidemux is a very good video editor. Install it like this

yum install avidemux

Mp3 and Audio Players for Fedora 15.

Audacity

Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import files in various formats. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWidgets and the audio I/O supports PulseAudio, OSS and ALSA under Linux. This
build has support for mp3 and ffmpeg import/export.
yum install audacityOr you can install Audacity with mp3 export support.

yum install audacity-freeworld

Audacious

Audacious is a media player that currently uses a skinned user interface (based on Winamp 2.x skins) as well as a separate GTK2 based front end. Historically, it started as a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.
yum install audacious audacious-libs audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-freeworld audacious

yum install vlc

Banshee

Banshee allows you to import CDs, sync your music collection to an iPod, play music directly from an iPod, create playlists with songs from your library, and create audio and MP3 CDs from subsets of your library.

yum install banshee banshee-community-extensions

Xmms

XMMS is a multimedia (Ogg Vorbis, CDs) player for the X Window System with an interface similar to Winamp’s. XMMS supports playlists and streaming content and has a configurable interface.

Torrent Clients for Fedora 15

Transmission

Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

yum install transmission

Azureus

Azureus (now Vuze) implements the BitTorrent protocol using java and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users.

yum install azureus

Ktorrent

Ktorrent is a torrent client for KDE Users. If you install on Gnome only System. You have the overhead of KDE Libraries.

yum install ktorrent

Nautilus Extensions for Fedora 15

Nautilus Actions

Nautilus actions is an extension for Nautilus, the GNOME file manager. It provides an easy way to configure programs to be launch on files selected in Nautilus interface

yum install nautilus-actions

Nautilus Image Converter

Adds a “Resize Images…” menu item to the context menu of all images. This opens a dialog where you set the desired image size and file name. A click on “Resize” finally resizes the image(s) using ImageMagick’s convert tool.

yum install nautilus-image-converter

Nautilus Open Terminal

The nautilus-open-terminal extension provides a right-click “Open Terminal” option for nautilus users who prefer that option.

yum install nautilus-open-terminal

Nautilus Paste Bin

A Nautilus extension written in Python, which allows users to upload text-only files to a pastebin service just by right-clicking on them. Users can also add their favorite service just by creating new presets.

yum install nautilus-pastebin

Tools for Fedora 15

Here we are installing some usefull tools for various purpose.

Unrar

The unrar utility is a freeware program for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver version 1.50 and above.

yum install unrar

7Zip

p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high compression ratio. The original version can be found at http://www.7-zip.org/.

yum install p7zip p7zip-plugins

gftp

gFTP is a multi-threaded FTP client for the X Window System. gFTP supports simultaneous downloads, resumption of interrupted file transfers, file transfer queues to allow downloading of multiple files, support for downloading entire directories/subdirectories, a bookmarks menu to allow quick connection to FTP sites, caching of remote directory listings, local and remote chmod, drag and drop, a connection manager and much more

yum install gftp

Filezilla

FileZilla is a FTP, FTPS and SFTP client for Linux with a lot of features.
* Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
* Cross-platform
* Available in many languages
* Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
* Easy to use Site Manager and transfer queue
* Drag & drop support
* Speed limits
* Filename filters
* Network configuration wizard

yum install filezilla

gnochm

A CHM file viewer for Gnome. Features are:
* Full text search * Bookmarks * Support for external ms-its links * Configurable support for http links * Internationalisation * Displays HTML page source

yum install gnochm

gtkpod

gtkpod is a platform independent Graphical User Interface for Apple’s iPod using GTK2. It supports all current iPod models, including the Mini, Photo, Shuffle, Nano, Video, Classic, Touch, and iPhone.

yum install gtkpod
All Packages with their functions

Internet:

• flash-plugin: Adobe Flash Player: to be installed
• Firefox: web browser: already installed
• Chrome: web browser by Google: to be installed separately
  
• Opera: web browser: to be installed separately
• thunderbird: An email and news client: to be installed
• Evolution: e-mail/calendar – Outlook style application: already installed (see Applications > Office)
  
• transmission: A BitTorrent Client: Bittorrent client: already installed
• Empathy IM Client: multi-platform instant messaging client: already installed
• skype: VOIP software: to be installed
  
• Google Earth: Map software by Google: to be installed separately

Graphics:

• gimp: replacement for Adobe Photoshop: to be installed
• f-spot: feature rich personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop: to be installed
• Google Picasa: application for organizing and editing digital photos: to be installed separately

Office:

• libreoffice-writer: replacement for Microsoft Word (new Openoffice Avatar): to be installed
• libreoffice-calc: replacement for Microsoft Excel: to be installed
• libreoffice-impress: replacement for Microsoft Powerpoint: to be installed
• AdobeReader_enu: Adobe Reader: to be installed (choose the package for your language)
  
• scribus: open source desktop publishing (DTP) application: to be installed

Sound & Video:

• audacity: free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor: to be installed
• audacious: Winamp like music player: to be installed
• banshee: media management and playback and synchronize music with Apple iPods: to be installed
• gnome-mplayer: media player (video/audio), supports practically all formats: to be installed
• vlc: media player (video/audio), supports practically all formats: to be installed
• Rhythmbox Music Player: audio player, similar to Apple’s iTunes, with support for iPods: already installed
• gtkpod: iPod manager, supports iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod photo, and iPod mini: to be installed
• dvdrip: full featured DVD copy program: to be installed
• dvd95: dvd shrink like program to convert DVD9 to DVD5: to be installed
• kino: digital video editor: to be installed
• sound-juicer: CD ripping tool, supports various audio codecs: already installed
• Totem – media player (video/audio): already installed
• gxine: media player, supports various formats; can play DVDs: to be installed
• Brasero: CD/DVD burning program: already installed
• k3b: CD/DVD burning program: to be installed

Programming:

• emacs: Feature rich extensible self-documenting text editor: to be installed
• vim: Terminal based power text editor: to be installed
• bluefish: HTML editor: to be installed
• kdewebdev: includes quanta: web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor: to be installed

Other:

• VirtualBox-OSE: run your old Windows desktop as a virtual machine under your Linux desktop, so you don’t have to entirely abandon Windows: to be installed
• ffmpeg: Useful video conversion application: to be installed

Home Theater (HTPC):

• mythtv: State-of-art Home Theater and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) application.
• xbmc: Awesome easy to use Home Theater (HTPC) application for playing videos, music, photo slide show etc., no PVR though!