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Fedora Addons

The document provides instructions for various tasks related to configuring and customizing a Fedora system, including: 1. Updating installed packages and configuring GRUB bootloader options. 2. Mounting and accessing a Windows partition, and removing old kernel versions. 3. Fixing issues with time synchronization and enabling multimedia playback formats. 4. Installing various software programs like Chrome, Arduino, Eclipse, LibreOffice, Wine, and multimedia applications.

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Fedora Addons

The document provides instructions for various tasks related to configuring and customizing a Fedora system, including: 1. Updating installed packages and configuring GRUB bootloader options. 2. Mounting and accessing a Windows partition, and removing old kernel versions. 3. Fixing issues with time synchronization and enabling multimedia playback formats. 4. Installing various software programs like Chrome, Arduino, Eclipse, LibreOffice, Wine, and multimedia applications.

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### After a clean install of Fedora sudo yum update ### Using grub2 # view menu entries grep

menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg # set default grub2-set-default <title or number> # view default grub2-editenv list # save changes vim grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ### Mount windows partition and link all folders (Music, Pictures, ...) sudo mkdir /mnt/windows sudo /sbin/fdisk -l # Check for what device is windows # Add to /etc/fstab /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,uid=500 0 0

### Removing old kernels uname -a # lists the current kernel rpm -q kernel # lists the installed kernels yum remove <kernel> # removes the specified kernel ### fix grub set root=(hd0,2) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/sda11 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 boot ### Fixing problem of Dual Time mixup http://www.ardamis.com/2009/11/24/windows-time-off-when-dual-booting-linux/ Open Regedit, drill down to: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInfor mation Create a new DWORD entry named RealTimeIsUniversal . Set the value to 1. Shut down Windows and boot Fedora. Set the correct time in Fedora, shutdown, and boot back into Windows. The time should be accurate if you have set your local time to the correct time zone. ### Fix gedit (Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module") sudo yum install PackageKit-gtk3-module sudo mkdir -p /root/.local/share ### compress pdf install Ghostscript and pdftk (sudo apt-get install ghostscript pdftk); pdf2ps file1.pdf file2.ps ps2pdf file2.ps file3.pdf ### Fix time sudo yum install ntp ntpdate pool.ntp.org ### Add to suders list /etc/sudoers USER ALL=(ALL)

NOPASSWD: ALL

### play mp3s and mp4s sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-releasestable.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-re lease-stable.noarch.rpm sudo yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras -nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg ### add shutdown sudo yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu ############### PROGRAMS ################ ### fastest mirror sudo yum install yum-fastestmirror ### nano sudo yum install nano ### google chrome /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo [google] name=Google - i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub sudo yum install google-chrome-stable # allow addons to chrome /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=permissive # install xmarks Search the extensions for Chrome ### arduino sudo yum install arduino sudo usermod -a -G uucp,dialout,lock $USER ### eclipse sudo yum install eclipse ### libreoffice sudo yum install @office ### gimp sudo yum install gimp ### wine sudo yum install wine ### audacity sudo yum install audacity ### http://www.passback.org.uk/music/fedora-music-intro/ ### JACK and qjackctl sudo yum install qjackctl ### zynaddsubfx

sudo yum install zynaddsubfx ### vkeybd sudo yum install vkeybd ### Planet CCRMA sudo rpm -Uvh http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcc rma/15/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-3.fc15.ccrma.noarch.rpm sudo yum install planetccrma-core kernel-rt users and groups > Tom > properties > groups > select jackuser ### Aeolus (pipe organ synth) sudo yum install aeolus ### Alsa Modular Synth sudo yum install ams ### qsynth sudo yum install qsynth ### rosegarden sudo yum install rosegarden ### skype /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo [skype] name=Skype Repository baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586 enable=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc sudo yum install skype ### vlc sudo yum install vlc ### gnome tweak tool sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool ### gba emulator and front end http://vbaexpress.tuxfamily.org/english.php http://vbaexpress.tuxfamily.org/vbaexpress-1.2-1.i386.rpm http://vbaexpress.tuxfamily.org/visualboyadvance-1.7.2-1.FC4.i386.rpm ### mono (c# coding) sudo yum install monodevelop ### octave (Matlab equivilent) sudo yum install octave ### winetricks sudo yum install cabextract ### microsoft visual c# 2010 express download exe ( ### 2005 sudo yum install p7zip

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