Useful Things to Do After Fedora Workstation Installation

Useful Things to Do After Fedora  Workstation Installation

 

 

# dnf update
 
 
 
 
First make sure to check your current hostname if any.

$ echo $HOSTNAME
tecmint
 
 
 

Now change Hostname as:

# hostnamectl set-hostname - -static “myhostname”
 
Important: It is necessary to reboot your system for the changes to be taken into effect. After reboot you may check the host name similarly as we did above.


3. Set Static IP Address in Fedora 22

You would like to set static IP and DNS for your Fedora 22 Install. Static IP and DNS can be set in Fedora 22 as:
Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 using your favorite editor or you may use default editor vim.

# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 
Important: Be aware that in your case eth0 might be replaced by enp0s3 or some other name. So, must verify it before changing anything….


Now open and edit few things. Note you should enter ‘IPADDR’, ‘NETMASK’, ‘GATEWAY’, ‘DNS1’ and ‘DNS2’ as per your ISP.

BOOTPROTO="static"
ONBOOT="yes"
IPADDR=192.168.0.19
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
DNS1=202.88.131.90
DNS2=202.88.131.89
 
 
and finally save and exit. You need to restart the network service.

# systemctl restart network
 
After network restart you can verify your network details by issuing following command.

# ifconfig
 
 
 

4. Install Gnome Tweak Tool

Gnome Tweak Tool is an utility which lets you tweak and alter the default settings of Gnome Desktop Environment with ease. You can easily customize your Fedora workstation in GUI using Gnome Tweak Tool. Most of the options in Gnome Tweak Tool are self explanatory.
To install Gnome Tweak Tool:

# dnf install gnome-tweak-tool
 
 
 

5. Enable Google Yum Repository

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
 
Add following lines:

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - \$basearch
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/\$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
 
 

6. Install Google Chrome Browser

# dnf install google-chrome-stable

 

7. Install Fedy Tool

Fedy tool is must for those who want to run all those desktop applications for better user experience and day to day use by a normal desktop users.
You can install a variety of Applications that are very widely used by desktop users viz., Abobe Flash, Android Studio, Atom Text Editor, Dropbox for Nautilus, Gnome Development Tools, Master PDF Editor, Multimedia Codecs, Oracle JDK & JRE, Popcorn Time, Skype, Steam – for gaming, TeamViewer, Viber and etc,..
To install fedy run the following commands.

# dnf update
# curl http://folkswithhats.org/fedy-installer -o fedy-installer && chmod +x fedy-installer && ./fedy-installer 
 
 

8. Install VLC on Fedora 

# dnf install vlc
 
 
 

9. Install Docky on Fedora

# dnf install docky
 
 
 

10. Install Unrar and 7zip

# dnf install unrar p7zip
 

11. Install VirtualBox on Fedora 

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

 

Update repolist.

# dnf -y update

 

Install Prerequisite and Virttualbox.
# dnf install -y kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms gcc
# dnf -y install VirtualBox-4.3
# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
 
Create an User for Virtualbox as:
# usermod -G vboxusers -a user_name
# passwd user_name
 
To start Virtualbox you may need to run.
# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
 
Virtualbox UI can then be started from the Application Menu.

12. Install Various Desktop Environments

If you are interested in other Desktop Environment other than Gnome, you may install them as:

# dnf install @kde-desktop    [KDE Desktop]
# dnf install @xfce-desktop    [XFCE Desktop]
# dnf install @mate-desktop    [Mate Desktop]
 
Note: You can Install any other desktop environment as:

# dnf install @DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT-desktop
 
 

13. Learn DNF – Package Manager

You are aware of the fact that YUM is deprecated and DNF has replaced it.
To manage a system efficiently, you must have a good command over package Manager. Here is the list of 27 most frequently used DNF commands, you should master to yield most out of your system that too efficiently.
That’s all for now. The above said 13 points are enough to make most out of your Fedora 22 Workstation. You may like to add your point of view, if any through the comments box below. Stay tuned and connected to Tecmint. Enjoy!
 

 
14. Fedora Codecs
the way to play mp4v, avi, mkv files on Fedora


 # dnf install gstreamer-ffmpeg
 # dnf install gstreamer-plugins-ugly 
 # dnf install gstreamer-plugins-bad
 # dnf install gstreamer-plugins-base-tools
 # dnf install gstreamer-plugins-good-extras 
 # dnf install gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras



 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 


 

 

 

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