Alphatek – Steven's Tech Blog

On my machines, I have Fedora 13 64-Bit installs with a Gnome desktop, here is a list of what I use and install. These procedures require to use the “Live” media.

Gnome setup after the Live Media installation:

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

1. Install the RPM Fusion repository
2. Install codecs to listen to music and watch videos: yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-ugly
   
3. Install some system tools and plugins: yum install cups-pdf unrar vim
   
4. Install useful applications: yum install banshee filezilla gimp gnome-applet-sshmenu inkscape isomaster keepassx liferea nautilus-image-converter pdfshuffler scribus thunderbird vlc wine
5. Install OpenOffice.org: yum install autocorr-fr autocorr-de hunspell-fr hunspell-de openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer
6. Install development tools: yum install rpmdevtools fedora-packager gcc-c++ kernel-devel kernel-headers subversion netbeans
7. Install Flash as explained in this post.
8. Install Chromium as explained in this post.
9. Install VirtualBox
10. Install Skype, you need to yum install alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 to make it work on an x86-64 system.
11. Transfer Windows fonts to ~/.fonts