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7. MP3 and Audio players
amarok
$ sudo yum install amarok
Adding mp3 support:
From Livna:
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install amarok-extras-nonfree
From FreshRPMs:
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=freshrpms install
audacious
From Livna:$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
From FreshRPMs:
$ sudo yum install audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-extras
If you want to use your winamp 2.x skin with audacious simply copy winamp's *.wsz skin to /usr/share/audacious/Skins/
If your tags are in a different encoding than utf8 you can force audacious to use it:
Preferences -> Playlist -> Metadata -> Fallback character encoding -> iso8859-7
If you want to add in queue mp3s when double clicked edit this file:
$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/fedora-audacious.desktop
And change Exec=audacious to Exec=audacious -e
xmms
From Livna:$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install xmms xmms-libs xmms-mp3
From FreshRPMs:
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=freshrpms install xmms xmms-libs xmms-mp3
8. DVD & video players
DVD playback
In order to play DVDs you must install the appropriate codecs.$ sudo yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd libdvbpsi
Video Files playback
This way you will be able to play almost any video file.$ cd ~/Download $ wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2 $ tar -jxf all-20071007.tar.bz2 $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs $ sudo cp all-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs $ sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs $ sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 $ sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32 $ rm -rf all-20071007
mplayer
mplayer is a very good video player. It supports almost any video type, as well as DVD playback.From Livna:
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install mplayer mplayer-fonts kplayer libdvdcss
If you use Gnome instead of KDE replace kplayer with mplayer-gui in the above command.
From FreshRPMs:
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=freshrpms install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts libdvdcss
totem
If you want to play DVD and video files with totem type:From Livna:
$ sudo yum remove totem $ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install totem-xine libdvdcss libdvdnav xine-lib-extras-nonfree
xine
xine also reproduces DVDs, VCDs and any other video type.$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install xine xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss libdvdnav
vlc
vlc supports almost any video type.$ sudo yum intall videolan-client
9. IRC Clients
Konversation
$ sudo yum install konversation
kvirc
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=freshrpms install kvirc
xchat
$ sudo yum intall xchat
10. MSN Messenger Clients
amsn
$ sudo yum install amsn
pidgin
$ sudo yum install pidgin
kopete
If you are using KDE you should have already install Kopete under Start menu -> Internet. Kopete supports many different instant messaging accounts such as AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo etc. If it is not installed type:
$ sudo yum install kdenetwork
11. CD/DVD Burning
gnomebaker
$ sudo yum install gnomebaker
k3b
$ sudo yum install k3b
k9copy
K9copy is the linux version of DVDshrink for windows. Since K9copy is a KDE application there may not be a menu opton for it in Gnome. See the above link for menu editing.$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install k9copy
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install libdvdread libdvdread-devel
I have also written a guide on How to backup your DVDs (in dvd, xvid, mpeg-4, x264 formats) using k9copy .
DeVeDe
DeVeDe is a very good dvd authoring tool. It allows you to convert any type of video format to DVD so that you can watch it in any player you like.$ sudo yum --enablerepo=livna install devede
I have also written a guide on How to create a custom DVD using DeVeDe .
12. Download manager
$ sudo yum install d4x
13. pdf readers
k9copy
If you are using KDE you should alread have kpdf installed. It is part of kdegraphic package and you can find it in Start menu -> Graphics KPDF Viewer.xpdf
You can also try xpdf.$ sudo yum install xpdf
acrobatreader
If you prefer adobe acrobat reader you can download it from here . The latest version at this time is 8.1.1. Download the Linux x86 rpm. When the download completes open and terminal and install it with:$ sudo rpm -hiv AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm
And you are ready to use it.
14. KDE country flags
If you have a multilanguage system and you want your country's flag to appear when you change from one language to the other download
kblflags from www.kde-look.org and copy the flag you want as stated below
(here I have installed the greek and usa flag).
$ tar -xzf kbflags-1.0.tar.gz
$ sudo cp kbflags-1.0/21x14/gr.png /usr/share/locale/l10n/gr/flag.png
$ sudo cp kbflags-1.0/21x14/us.png /usr/share/locale/l10n/us/flag.png
15. KDE style in gtk applications
With this program you can make your qt applications look like they are gtk. Much better for your eyes!
$ sudo yum install gtk-engines-qt
Then go to Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> GTK Styles and Fonts and apply the changes you want.
16. Beryl
Beryl is the cool cube desktop you may have seen in many videos and screenshots around the web. To install it, depending on which desktop environment you are using, type:
$ sudo yum install beryl-gnome
or
$ sudo yum install beryl-kde
If you want beryl to start automatically when you log in KDE create a file called beryl.sh under ~/.kde/Autostart
$ cd ~/.kde/Autostart
$ nano beryl.sh
and paste those lines:
#!/bin/sh
sleep 5
/usr/bin/beryl-manager
Save with Ctrl+O and exit with Ctrl+X. Finally make it executable like this:
$ chmod +x beryl.sh
Restart X with ctrl+alt+backspace and beryl should start automatically.
If you want beryl to start automatically when you log in Gnome open Sessions manager, click on New and type beryl as Name and Command. Click Ok and you are ready.
17. Creating RPMs with checkinstall
Many times tarballs don't have uninstall scripts. This way your system becomes a mess when you want to uninstall these programs. Checkinstall is a program that allows you to easily build an rpm from a tarball. Download and install it from here.
Then when you want to install a tarball instead of ./configure && make && make install just type:
./configure
make
su -c '/usr/local/sbin/checkinstall'
Answer all the questions and finally install the
given rpm. Checkinstall gives you the path it has stored the rpm. Now
you can easily uninstall tarballs that don't have an uninstall script. This way you can keep your system clean.
18. Accessing Windows shares
If you want to access your windows shared folders through linux and also to be able to view your videos and listen to your mp3 through your local network install smb4k like this:$ sudo yum install smb4k
smb4k doesn't work correctly with the sudo command so you have to change the permissions of some programs that mount/umount the shares like this:
$ sudo chmod u+s /sbin/mount.cifs
$ sudo chmod u+s /sbin/umount.cifs
Then run smb4k. It should start scanning for your network's shared folders. Go to Settings -> Configure Smb4K -> Samba and put your workgroups name. Press Ok and exit. Then click to the shared folders you see at your left and press Right click -> Add Boobkmark. Now go under your bookmarks section and click to any folder you want to mount. It will appear at the right panel. Double click on it and it will be mounted automatically. To umount it right click on him and select Unmount.
19. Auto login
Auto login KDE
If you want to login automatically with your user when you use KDE first check if you have kdm installed by typing:$ rpm -q kde-settings-kdm
kde-settings-kdm-3.5-28.fc7.1
If you get "package kde-settings-kdm is not installed" install it by typing:
$ sudo yum install kde-settings-kdm
Then type:
$ sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/desktop
and paste in those lines.
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
Save (Ctrl+O) and exit (Ctrl+X).
Then run Control Center -> System Administration -> Login manager. Press the "Administrator Mode" button at the bottom and give your root password. Then go to "Conviniene" and check "Enable Auto-Login". Select the user you want to auto login with. If you don't want to give your password each time check "Enable Password-Less Login" and check your user. Hit "Apply" and you are done. Next time you reboot you will automatically login with your user account.
20. pptp client
PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers. To install it open a terminal and type the following commands:
$ wget http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc7/ $ sudo rpm -hiv pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum install pptpconfig
Now you can start pptp client either by typing pptpconfig or from the start menu.
21. linuxdcpp
linuxdcpp is a project to port the DC++ direct connect client to Linux. There are no binaries at the time being. Therefore you must build your own packages using the cvs system. Here it is how. I suppose that you have a Downloads folder in your home directory for the following procedure. First you have to download some dependency packets:$ sudo yum install cvs scons
linuxdcpp also needs those packages:
- g++ >= 3.4
- pkg-config
- gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6
- gthread-2.0 >= 2.4
- libglade-2.0 >= 2.4
- libbz2
$ sudo yum install gcc-c++ pkgconfig gtk+ glib2-devel libglade bzip2-devel
Next open a terminal and type:
$ cd Downloads/ $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxdcpp.berlios.de:/cvsroot/linuxdcpp login (Press Enter when prompted for password) $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxdcpp.berlios.de:/cvsroot/linuxdcpp co linuxdcpp $ cd linuxdcpp/ $ scons release=true $ sudo scons install
Now you can run linuxdcpp by typing:
$ linuxdcpp
At any time you can update to the latest linuxdcpp packages by typing:
$ cd Downloads/linuxdcpp $ cvs update -d
Finally if you want to uninstall linuxdcpp type:
$ Downloads/linuxdcpp $ sudo scons -c install
22. compiz-fusion
For detailed information on how to compile and install compiz-fusion from git on Fedora 7 check my guide here .Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites
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