Fedora 17 Post Installation Resources and Guides

This is the list of resources I used during my Fedora post-installation process.  Even thou my distro of choice is Arch, I decided to install Fedora on one of my computers because I needed something working out of the box, something I would setup and not touch again for troubleshooting. Quite a mistake, I ran into issues I commonly encounter with arch when I updated the system, and I had to spend a reasonable amount of time setting up the system. It was worth the shot and I certainly enjoy Fedora, but I guess I will stick with mint from now on for this kind of requirements.

But for those who wish to use Fedora as their main OS, here is a comprehensive list of the resources I used during the setup. I understand at the moment I am writing this article, Fedora 18 is already available as "stable", however, many of these instructions shall work with Fedora 18, others shall be very similar.

Browser

•  Chrome[1]

Install instructions: Install Google Chrome on Fedora 17/16, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3

Install Oracle java(links provider further in the article) to be able to run java applications on chrome.
You can also try this method if you do not want to install Oracle java.

To install flash:

 su -c 'rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'  
 su -c 'rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux'  
 su -c 'yum install flash-plugin'  

Restart browser after installing flash/java.

Office

•  LibreOffice

Install libre office core

 su -c 'yum install libreoffice'  

Search and install language pack (example is pt-PT, change to your appropriate language pack)

 yum search libreoffice-langpack  
 su -c 'yum install libreoffice-langpack-pt-PT'  

Choose aditional extensions/plugins to install

 yum search libreoffice  
 libreoffice-bsh.x86_64 : BeanShell support for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-headless.x86_64 : LibreOffice Headless plug-in  
 libreoffice-javafilter.x86_64 : Optional javafilter module for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-langpack-pt-PT.x86_64 : Portuguese language pack for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-nlpsolver.x86_64 : Non-linear solver engine for LibreOffice Calc  
 libreoffice-ogltrans.x86_64 : 3D OpenGL slide transitions for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-postgresql.x86_64 : PostgreSQL connector for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-presentation-minimizer.x86_64 : Shrink LibreOffice presentations  
 libreoffice-presenter-screen.x86_64 : Presenter Screen for LibreOffice  
                   : Presentations  
 libreoffice-report-builder.x86_64 : Create database reports from LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-rhino.x86_64 : JavaScript support for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-sdk.x86_64 : Software Development Kit for LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-sdk-doc.x86_64 : Software Development Kit documentation for  
               : LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-voikko.x86_64 : Finnish spellchecker and hyphenator extension for  
              : LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-wiki-publisher.x86_64 : Create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers  
                  : with LibreOffice  
 libreoffice-writer2latex.x86_64 : LibreOffice Writer To LateX Converter  
 libreoffice-writer2xhtml.x86_64 : LibreOffice Writer to xhtml Converter  
 libreoffice-xsltfilter.x86_64 : Optional xsltfilter module for LibreOffice  
 (...)  

Install plugins/extensions(just erase those not needed)

 su -c 'yum install libreoffice-bsh libreoffice-headless libreoffice-nlpsolver libreoffice-ogltrans libreoffice-postgresql libreoffice-presentation-minimizer libreoffice-presenter-screen libreoffice-report-builder libreoffice-rhino libreoffice-wiki-publisher libreoffice-writer2latex libreoffice-writer2xhtml'  

Oracle JDK

Download JDK rpm from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and install with rpm tool (substitute the name of the file for the name of the file you downloaded).

 su -c 'rpm -ivh jdk-7u10-linux-x64.rpm'  

Some errors may show up, supposedly they don't affect the installation[1][2]:

 Unpacking JAR files...  
      rt.jar...  
 Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_10/jre/lib/rt.pack  
      jsse.jar...  
 Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_10/jre/lib/jsse.pack  
      charsets.jar...  
 Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_10/jre/lib/charsets.pack  
      tools.jar...  
 Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_10/lib/tools.pack  
      localedata.jar...  
 Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_10/jre/lib/ext/localedata.pack  

Detailed install instructions on:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-sun-oracle-java-jdk-jre-7-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

To swap between java versions:

 alternatives --config java  

[1]http://manualinux.heliohost.org/java.html  (castillan aka spanish)
[2]http://forum.fedoraonline.it/viewtopic.php?pid=197741 (italian)

Audio and Video

To install audio and video codecs, you need to add RPM Fusion repository(described next).
Just run this on the terminal to install most codecs, including mp3:

 su -c 'yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly'  

There are a couple awesome video and audio players for linux. Personal favourites are vlc for video and banshee for music.

 yum install banshee vlc  

RPM Fusion

"RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship. That software is provided as precompiled RPMs for all current Fedora versions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6; you can use the RPM Fusion repositories with tools like yum and PackageKit.


RPM Fusion is a merger of Dribble, Freshrpms, and Livna; our goal is to simplify end-user experience by grouping as much add-on software as possible in a single location. Also see our FoundingPrinciples."

--@http://rpmfusion.org/



To add this repository:

 su -c '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'  
 su -c 'yum update'  

Eclipse Juno

Guide on how to Install Eclipse SDK 4.2.1 (Juno) on Fedora 17/16, CentOS/RHEL 6.3/5.8