Alphatek – Steven's Tech Blog

On my machines, I have a mix of Fedora 12 both with a Gnome desktop and KDE desktop, here is a list of what I use and install. These procedures require you to have the standard installation DVD, they may vary if you use the LiveCD images. The KDE installation process is a bit more complicated due to the fact that Fedora’s installer pre-selects Gnome as the default desktop :

Gnome setup:

• Web browser: Firefox
• E-mail client : Thunderbird
• Text editor : gedit
• IM client: Pidgin
• BitTorrent client: Transmission
• RSS reader: Liferea
• Music player: Banshee
• Image manipulation: GIMP
• Office suite: OpenOffice.org
• Movie player: VLC

1. Select the “Office and Productivity” and “Software development” groups during the installation.
2. Install the RPM Fusion repository
3. Install the flash plugin on 64-bit systems like described here or install it from Adobe’s site on 32-bit systems
4. Install applications and codecs to listen to music and watch videos: yum install vlc gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg banshee
5. Install some system tools and plugins: yum install cups-pdf hunspell-fr hunspell-de unrar
   
6. Install useful applications: yum install liferea inkscape filezilla isomaster pdfshuffler scribus thunderbird keepassx wine pidgin gnome-applet-sshmenu nautilus-image-converter
   
7. Install development tools: yum install rpmdevtools fedora-packager gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel
8. Install VirtualBox
9. Install Skype, run yum install glibc.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 to take care of the dependencies we have to install on an x86-64 system, note that you also need some libs installed by the wine package, but we already installed it before.
10. Transfer Windows fonts to ~/.fonts

KDE setup:

• Web browser: Firefox
• E-mail client : Thunderbird
• Text editor : KWrite
• IM client: Pidgin
• BitTorrent client: Transmission
• RSS reader: Liferea
• Music player: Banshee
• Image manipulation: GIMP
• Office suite: OpenOffice.org
• Movie player: VLC

1. Un-select the “Office and Productivity” and “Software development” groups during the installation, click on “customize now”, select KDE instead of Gnome.
2. Install the RPM Fusion repository
3. Install the flash plugin on 64-bit systems like described here or install it from Adobe’s site on 32-bit systems
4. Install applications and codecs to listen to music and watch videos: yum install vlc gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg banshee
5. Install OpenOffice: yum install openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-impress autocorr-fr autocorr-de
6. Install some system tools and plugins: yum install cups-pdf hunspell-fr hunspell-de unrar
   
7. Install useful applications: yum install liferea inkscape filezilla isomaster pdfshuffler scribus thunderbird keepassx wine pidgin
   
8. Install development tools: yum install rpmdevtools fedora-packager gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel
9. Install VirtualBox
10. Install Skype, run yum install glibc.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 to take care of the dependencies we have to install on an x86-64 system, note that you also need some libs installed by the wine package, but we already installed it before.
11. Transfer Windows fonts to ~/.fonts