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Written by axel

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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

$ 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

So if you don't have some of them installed use yum to install it.

$ sudo yum install gcc-c++ pkgconfig gtk+ glib2-devel libglade bzip2-devel

Next open a terminal and type:

$ cd Downloads/
$ cvs -d:pserver:
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 :/cvsroot/linuxdcpp login
(Press Enter when prompted for password)
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:
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 :/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 .

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