The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 17 - Page 4

This tutorial exists for these OS versions

10 TrueType Fonts

To install Windows TrueType fonts, open a terminal and become root again:

su

Then run:

yum -y install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir

rpm -ivh http://easylinux.info/uploads/msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch.rpm --nodeps

To check if the TrueType fonts have been installed correctly, open a word processor like LibreOffice. You should now find your new Windows fonts there:

11 libdvdcss2

To install libdvdcss2, open a terminal again, become root...

su

... and run the following command:

For 32-bit systems:

rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-i386/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc17.i686.rpm

For 64-bit systems:

rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc17.x86_64.rpm

(If the download location doesn't exist anymore because there's a newer libdvdcss2 package, you can find that package on http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-i386/atrpms/stable/ for i686 systems and on http://dl.atrpms.net/f17-x86_64/atrpms/stable/ for x86_64 systems.)

12 Win32 Codecs

To install Win32-codecs, open a terminal again, become root...

su

... and run the following commands:

cd /tmp/
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20110131.tar.bz2
tar xfvj all-20110131.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/lib/codecs/
cp all-20110131/* /usr/lib/codecs/
ln -s /usr/lib/codecs/ /usr/lib/win32

13 Opera

Go to http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ in your browser and select Fedora as distribution. Click on the Download Opera button...

... and select Open with Software Install (default):

The Software Install program will then come up and guide you through the installation.

14 Dropbox

To install Dropbox, open a terminal again, become root...

su

... and run the following commands:

For 32-bit systems:

rpm -ivh https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0-1.fedora.i386.rpm

For 64-bit systems:

rpm -ivh https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm

15 Winff

To install Winff, open a terminal again, become root...

su

... and run the following commands:

For 32-bit systems:

rpm -ivh http://winff.googlecode.com/files/winff-1.2.0-1%7Eppa1l.i386.rpm

For 64-bit systems:

rpm -ivh http://winff.googlecode.com/files/winff-1.2.0-1%7Eppa1l.x86_64.rpm

16 Kompozer

To install Kompozer, open a terminal again, become root...

su

... and run the following commands:

For 32-bit systems:

rpm -ivh http://olea.org/paquetes-rpm/fedora-13/kompozer-0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586.rpm

For 64-bit systems:

rpm -ivh http://olea.org/paquetes-rpm/fedora-13/kompozer-0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.x86_64.rpm

17 Nightingale

Nightingale has to be downloaded from their website at http://getnightingale.com. Click on the great download button and open the downloaded archive with the archive manager. The application doesn't need to be installed since it can be started directly from the downloaded directory.