[See http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f17.html#moreinfo & http://smashingweb.info/fedora-17-post-installation-guide-things-to-do-after- installing-fedora-17/ to compare notes and finish document] Sites to checkout: http://smashingweb.info/fedora-17-post-installation-guide-things-to-do-after-installing-fedora-17/ http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linux/fedora-16-post-installation-guide http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f17.html#moreinfo http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/a-new-home/a-new-home http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade/zh-cn http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6447473/linux-command-or-script-counting-duplicated-lines-in- a-text-file http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/linux_remove_duplicate_lines_with_uniq.php Things to do after installing fedora Here is a quick list of things to do after install fedora 17 for a perfect desktop or a most usable desktop for an average PC User. For a Complete desktop for a user we need more soft-wares 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. Also Livna Repos handle some non free stuff for media editing. Configure sudo * Modifying sudoers file Normally if you want to run a command which requires root privileges you first have to type 'su -', type your root password and then type the command. However you can bypass this by using the 'sudo' command. But first you have to configure it like this su --login -c 'visudo' Now go below the line: root ALL=(ALL) ALL press a, and type the following username ALL=(ALL) ALL where username is the username you use to login. Next press Escape. Now, if you want to be prompted for your root password each time you use the sudo command go to this line: # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL and with your cursor pointing on # press x If you don't want to be prompted for your root password each time you use the sudo command go to this line: # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL and with your cursor pointing on # press x Next, press :wq to save and exit. (type the : as well) * Adding your user to the wheel groupJust type: su -c 'gpasswd -a username wheel' * Testing sudo To test if you have done it correctly as a simple user type: $ sudo whoami If everything is working properly the command should return the word 'root'. Configure yum Fedora uses YUM to install and update its software and automatically resolve any dependencies needed. Fedora software repositories don't include support for MP3, DVD and Video playback/recording because of patent licenses. For this reason you have to install that software from third party repositories. But don't worry, this is pretty easy! ;) * RPMFusion repository Now we are going to install the RPM Fusion Repository. RPM Fusion is a merger of the Dribble, Freshrpms and RPM Fusion package repositories for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A variety of applications is included in that repository such as codecs for mp3 and unencrypted DVDs, multimedia applications such as mplayer, VLX and xine and the closed source Nvidia and ATi video drivers! RPM Fusion has two main repositories: one named "free" for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines) which can't be included in Fedora because it might be patent encumbered in the USone named "nonfree" for non-free software, that is everything else which can't be in free; this includes software with public available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like restrictions. For the rest of this guide I will assume that you have installed and enabled the RPM Fusion Repository. To install it type: su - yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.no arch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release- stable.noarch.rpm yum update * Google repository First we must install the key su - yum install wget wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub Fedora 32bit Add the following to a file called google.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/: [google] name=Google - i386 baseurl=http://dl. google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl. google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub Fedora 64bit Add the following to a file called google.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/: [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 Enable Restricted Repositories in fedora 17 To enable the RPM Fusion repository just install yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stab le.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-rel ease-stable.noarch.rpm Install Cinnamon 1.4 on Fedora 17 Cinnamon is a fantastic Desktop created by linux mint team by forking gnome shell. You will get the Classic Gnome 2 experience in Gnome Shell. All the effects with ease of use. First you need to download and install two packages from here. There are 32- and 64-bit versions available, so choose the appropriate version for your platform. The 32-bit versions, available here. The packages to download, are muffin and Cinnamon. Install muffin first. Then install the Cinnamon RPM also. For 32 & 64 Bit yum install cinnamon After installation just logout and then on the login prompt after selecting the user name below password select session to cinnamon Yum Extender It is a very nice utility to install software with a GUI and with power and speed of terminal. Commands are executed in terminal but it has a nice GUI to manage everything. yum install yumex For GUI people just open the overlay mode in gnome or press window key. then type add then you will get add or remove programmes then go for a search. Overlay Mode Activities > Applications > System Tools > Terminal. then type su – and enter for a root user . Enter your root password. All the commands are performed as root on the terminal otherwise just add su -c ‘command’ . Prepare Yum for Fast Installation in fedora 17 fedora 17 Yum Fastest Mirror Plugin yum install yum-fastestmirror The fasterstmirror will find the fastest mirror near you and download with great speed. Gnome Shell Tweaks for fedora 17 You need some tweaks for gnome shell to use in fedora 17. You can have the gnome- tweak-tool to tweak the settings, interface, fonts, themes etc..The latest version got improved controls to tweak gnome as you like. Just install yum install gnome-tweak-tool Dconf Editor for fedora 17 The dconf editor will help you to set various values in gnome shell. like enable the minimize, maximize buttons, show seconds in the clock etc. Just Install yum install dconf-editor Gnome Shell Themes in Fedora 17 There are lot of themes available for Gnome shell. If user theme extension installed and active then you can change the shell theme using gnome tweak tool. There are lot of themes in Gnome Look and deviantart Here is a small list of exciting themes for fedora 17 Zukini malys – GS GNOME Shell Theme Faience 0.3 Nord: Gnome-shell 1.2 Adwaita-White 1.4 London Smoke – Gnome-Shell 1.3 MinimaZero 1.1 Air (Gnome Shell 3.4 compatible) 3.4 Zukitwo Also there are lot of exiciting icon sets for Fedora 17. The popular are faenza, Faience, Elementary, Gnome colors etc.. to install faenza theme yum install faenza-icon-theme install elementary icon theme yum install elementary-icon-theme Install Eco Icon theme yum install echo-icon-theme Install Tango Icon Theme yum install tango-icon-theme tango-icon-theme-extras Lot others can be downloaded from Gnome Look Alternative Desktop Environments 01 July 2011 Many users who find Gnome 3.x difficult to use should try an alternative desktop environment. The following are supported by Fedora. Note these are all optional. Use yum to install them if you so wish: KDE is a full featured desktop like Gnome. However it does things in a different style. This is the most comprehensive desktop next to Gnome ( more info). To install: [mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo yum groupinstall "KDE Software Compilation" LXDE is a lightweight desktop environment. It is very useful for older computers. It takes up much less space than Gnome or KDE. It maybe similar to older version of Windows ( more info). To install: [mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo yum groupinstall LXDE Xfce is lightweight desktop environment similar to LXDE. It also consumes less resources than Gnome and many users will find it similar to much older versions of Gnome ( more info). To install: [mirandam@charon ~]$ sudo yum groupinstall XFCE Note: Xfce is my personal recommendation/choice Install Microsoft fonts Fedora uses Liberation and DejaVu fonts which are installed by default and look pretty smooth and nice, plus they are open source. If you insist on using the Microsoft fonts you can download and install the msttcorefonts rpm like this. wget http://www.my-guides.net/en/images/stories/fedora12/msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.no arch.rpm su -c 'rpm -ivh msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch.rpm' I built it myself using the msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.spec from Fedora-devel mailing list. It includes Arial, Andale, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings fonts. The procedure just in case you want to build it yourself is the following.