3) Add GNOME Shell Extensions
Still you can avail lots of GNOME shell desktop extensions to make your system easier by adding more GNOME Shell Extension. How to do that ? Simply go to extensions.gnome.org and click the extension you want to install. You can activate/deactivate the extension by clicking on/off button.
4) Configure RPMFusion Repos
Fedora ships with official repositories & components which will not ship with any non free softwares. RPMFusion is a software repository, providing add-on packages & essential software for Fedora distribution such as multimedia codes.
# Adding RPMFusion Free repo # daygeek@2daygeek [~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-23.noarch.rpm # Adding RPMFusion Non-Free repo # daygeek@2daygeek [~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-23.noarch.rpm
5) Install Media Codecs
Entertainment is one of the important things for everybody now a days, due to some reason multimedia codecs are not included in Fedora Official repository archive but you can install by adding RPMFusion repository, check Step-4.
# media code installation # daygeek@2daygeek [~]$ sudo dnf install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer1
great article very in depth but not to geeky. would like see review of Mint currently running 17.0
What a marvelous community contribution. Thank you very much. This has been most helpful and an excellent way to start my adventure in the world of Linux!
@Matt,
Welcome matt.
google chrome repos not available for fedora 23 and or 22 ; not working
By default fedora wont come with Google Chrome and we need to add Google Chrome repo, refer the below link for detailed explanation.
https://www.2daygeek.com/install-upgrade-google-chrome-web-browser-on-linux-mint-centos-debian-ubuntu-fedora-rhel-opensuse/
Hi Getting an error with the adobe flash area
sudo rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
error: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux: import read failed(2).
Clean your cache and retry it.
issues a) download chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ select the yum repo
b:) for skype download the n cd Downlaods sudo dnf install ./skype
Please remove Fedy and its kin, Fedy is malware/spyware and it also overwirites core fedora files
Please Stop recommending it
Thanks for your suggestion, will discuss with admin team and take further action.
Great recommendations Magesh! I would also recommend infinality for better font rendering: https://danielrenninghoff.com/2015/11/22/infinality-ultimate-bundle-packaged-for-fedora/.
Also i think you may have made an error in the install steam section, you put dropbox.repo instead of steam.repo in the nano edit portion.
Keep up the good work
Also i think localinstall may have been deprecated.
@Unixer,
Once again thank you so much for pin pointing the issue which will help future user to get complete and clean article. Yes, Its deprecated and i have modified the article according that.
@unixer,
Good catch and modified the article.
Would be nice if Skype actually worked.
Followed the instructions, get Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This on a Fedora 23 system, fully updated
@Jonathan,
Thanks for your valid update. can you please try now with below steps.
$ sudo wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37-fedora.i586.rpm
$ sudo dnf localinstall skype-4.3.0.37-fedora.i586.rpm
$ sudo yum -y install libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686
Dropbox is a good service for sync. Arent you concerned about all the cloud hacks these days? Have you tried Binfer? Here’s about direct file sharing
@Aidan,
Yes, First time i’m hearing about Binfer. Thanks for letting know about it. We will add this into our Free cloud Storage Lists.
https://www.2daygeek.com/category/free-cloud-storage/
brilliant stuff mate. cheers
@jac,
Welcome.
I started using Redhat years ago, RH5 i think. didn’t know anything about computers or linux. lost track of Redhat after Cedora Core started using the unity desktop. hated that. went a few years using Mint, Ubuntu, and they are all great os’s, but i decided to give Fedora a try again, with 23. installed it, not crazy about the workstation version, found spins, and here i am on 23MATE-compiz d.e. a bit of a challenge getting it to install smoothly into ubuntu bootloader. however i now have 6 os’s running out of ubuntu bootloader, and this is probably going to be my favorite. Fedora rocks again, thanks to the Spins, and your handy little treatment of it. Great Fedora site, thanks much for all your efforts.
@Pat,
Nice to hear your words. Fedora also good distro rpm based system. I’m using Fedora more than 3 years, still loving to play most of the time with Fedora…) Keep rocking, hands of to Open-Source…)
Thanks! This article is very good! I love fedora
@William,
Nice to hear, Thank you so much for your prompt replay. We also good to work with fedora.
Nice article Magesh. Btw, you typed dnf twice on “sudo dnf dnf -y install postinstallerf” part
@Santoso,
Its typo, we have corrected now. Thank you so much to bring it our notice.