What to do after installing Fedora 16

This will be a compilation of walk-through for after installing fedora 16 . After telling the news fedora many were encouraged to try and have sent some small doubts.
We will try to solve simple issues such as first configurations, recommended programs and installation of codecs.

Gnome Shell Set

This can be the first thing you want to do in fedora remember that comes with the Gnome Shell 3 interface. To configure the best will install gnome-tweak-tool to change the theme, fonts, etc.

yum install gnome-tweak-tool

Improve yum

yum is like apt-get on Ubuntu. Installing a few packages we will improve it and make it work faster

yum-y install yum-plugin-fastestmirror
yum-y install yum-presto
yum-y install yum-langpacks

Install audio and video codecs

yum-y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-nonfree-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg

Install extra repositories

localinstall yum – 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

Install adobe repositories

rpm-Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Install flash plugin on Fedora 16

yum-y install flash-plugin

Install codecs to watch DVDs

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm rpm-Uvh
yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd

Install java

sudo yum-y install java-1.6.0-openjdk
sudo yum-y install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin

Install programs for compressing and decompressing

sudo yum-y install unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins

Enable broadcom wifi

These plates are many problems and the worst is that many people have in their notebooks. Here is a solution to install the drivers for these boards. In the console write these commands:

yum-y install broadcom-wl
modprobe wl
service NetworkManager restart

And then restart the pc. That’s all
Should you have any problems running these commands:

yum-y install kmod-wl-PAE
rpm-qa | grep-e wl-e kernel | sort

Surely there are plenty of applications that you would like to take after installing fedora , we suggest here only a few. Remember that to install software linux fedora and in this case is very easy, you just have to write yum install followed by the name of the program.

• Messenger pidgin
• Customers social networks: Gwibber
• Image Editor: Gimp, Inkscape
• Video player: vlc, mplayer, smplayer
• Audio Player: audcity, audacious, clementine
• Manager torrents: transmission
• Customer ftp:filezilla
• Programming IDE: NetBeans, Eclipse

Any doubt left in the comments.

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