Feel at home with Fedora 12 Constantine

This is my attempt to make Fedora 12 my main desktop. It is a bit too late because Fedora 13 Goddard is already in the doorway. I use Fedora 12 Gnome LiveCD to install on my old Acer Dothan laptop.

After install, I want to keep my next downloaded apps and updates in the /var/cache/.
gedit etc/yum.conf
keepcache = 1

I want to use the fastest mirror to download apps and updates.
yum install yum-fastestmirror

I want to do security update only (poor and expensive bandwith)
yum install yum-security
yum –security update

I need to remove icons on the desktop.
So I change setting in gconf-editor.
yum install gconf-editor

After that, I need to install my fav applications.
yum install thunderbird (email)
yum install thunderbird-lightning (calendar)
yum install gimp (advance image editor)
yum install pspp (statistical data analysis)
yum install gtk-murrine-engine

I have kept my fav apps and existing update in dedicated rpm folder.
So I want to use yum locally.
yum localinstall /home/username/folder/*rpm
Make sure you do this after yum check-update.

I want to install vlc, DVD & mp3 codecs from RPM Fusion repo.
su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’
yum install gstreamer-plugin-ugly
su -c “rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm”
yum install libdvdcss
yum install vlc

Finally, I need flash to play youtube and flash-equipped websites.
Go to http://www.adobe.com.
Download flash player in rpm format.
Install by double click on the rpm file.

That’s it.
Fedora is powerful and flexible.
You can complete your fedora desktop with your needs.
Also, there are other ways to get the purpose of above writings with the same or even better result.

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