Fedora 19 also known as 19 Schrodinger’s Cat is the latest version of
Fedora distro. It comes with many new features and software updates.
Note: Almost every command shown here requires root privileges. So make sure you are logged in as root. Run su command to login as root.
Rpmfusion Repo
RPM Fusion Repository includes variety of applications which are not
included in the main distro. Like mp3 codec, multimedia player for
playing DVDs and many more.
It is recommended that you install RPM Fusion repo because most of the following packages require you to install RPM Fusion otherwise it may not work
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#yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-19.noarch.rpm
#yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-19.noarch.rpm
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Livna Repo
Some packages require you to install Livna Repo. Simply run he following commands to add and enable livna repo on your system.
#rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
#rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
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MP3 playback
Rythmbox
Rythmbox is likely that it will be installed by default. If not installed then you can install it very easily.
The default installation of rhytmbox wont allow you to play mp3. To play mp3 you need to add the codes
yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly
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Amarok
Amarok is the default audio player for KDE. It can also be installed on Gnome.
#yum install amarok phonon-backend-gstreamer
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Audacious
Audacious is a winamp like audio player
#yum install audacious audacious-plugins
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XMMS
XMMS is another winamp like audio player. And its one of my favorite. Its better than audacious in my eyes
#yum install xmms xmms-mp3
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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 your music library.
#yum install banshee banshee-community-extensions
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Video and DVD Playback
VLC player
VLC player is the best video player for Linux. It is capable of playing almost every video format.
XINE
Xine is another video player for Linux. It is very much like vlc player
#yum install xine xine-lib xine-lib-extras-freeworld
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Mplayer with SM Player GUI
Mplayer is a VLC player like player for Linux. It is capable of playing almost all video and audio formats.
#yum install mplayer smplayer
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Totem
Totem is the default video player for Fedora.
#yum install totem-xine xine-lib xine-lib-extras-freeworld
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K9Copy
K9Copy is a free, open source DVD backup and DVD authoring program for Linux
libdvdcss
libdvdcss is a free and open source software library for accessing
and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS).
libdvdcss is part of the VideoLAN project and is used by VLC media
player and other DVD player software such as Ogle, xine-based players,
and MPlayer.
Adobe Flash Player
Add the Adobe repo
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#rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
#rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
#yum install flash-plugin
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Install Flash Player
#yum install flash-plugin
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Acrobat Reader
Add adobe YUM Repo
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#rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
#rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
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Install Adobe reader
#yum install AdobeReader_enu
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Google Chrome
Add Google YUM Repo
#vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
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And paste the following
Fedora 32-bit
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[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 32-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
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Fedora 64-bit
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[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
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Save the file using “:wq“.
Install Google Chrome
#yum install google-chrome-stable
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Other Applications
Filezilla
Filezilla is a FTP client and its one of the best
7z or p7zip
Unrar
Unrar utility for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver version 1.50 and above.
Transmission bittorrent client
Transmission is a lightweight bittorrent client for Linux platform.
#yum install transmission
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Wine
Wine is a is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows
applications on Linux. It can run many windows applications even some
games in Linux.
Gparted
GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.
Gimp
Gimp is the most advanced Image Editor for Linux. This gimp has lot of useful features useful.
#yum install gimp yum install gimp-data-extras gimpfx-foundry gimp-lqr-plugin gimp-resynthesizer gnome-xcf-thumbnailer
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Eclipse IDE
Eclipse is a multi-language Integrated development environment (IDE)
Yum Extender : yumex
Yum Extender (yumex) is a GUI for the yum package manager. If you do
not like installing everything from the terminal you can add a GUI
installer.
Follow This Article to install Yum Extender (yumex) on Fedora 19
Skype Installation
Dependencies:-
#yum install alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 qtwebkit.i686 -y
#wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.2.0.11-fedora.i586.rpm
#yum localinstall skype-4.2.0.11-fedora.i586.rpm
Gnome Extension Installation
https://extensions.gnome.org/local/
Using "Gnome Link" create a account. List of extension.
