Fedora misses some very important features like mp3 codecs, pdf reader etc which should have been provided with the installation iso. Here is the guide to set up all of the requirements after installing a fresh copy of Fedora.
First of all update the system using “sudo yum update” command.
Enable RPM Fusion Repositories (VERY IMPORTANT)
Before starting to install any software, we need to enable RPM FUSION REPOSITORY so that we can install applications like vlc, media-codecs, as well as wifi drivers (for whom these drivers are missing) etc which are not available in Fedora official repositories due to some sort of license issues.
Type the following code in the terminal
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'
You can also do it graphically by downloading these two files
- For Fedora 19.
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-19.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-19.noarch.rpm
- For Fedora 18.
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-18.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-18.noarch.rpm
- For Fedora 17.
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-17.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-17.noarch.rpm
Do run “sudo yum update” after adding the repo.
Install Fedy (Fedora Utils)
Fedy (earlier known as Fedora Utils) lets you install codecs and additional software, fix problems, tweak and cleanup your system, view system information and much more with just few clicks.
Installing Fedy is as easy as running a single command.
To install the latest version of Fedora Utils in your system, click this line.
Add the Fedy repo to your system to ensure that Fedy up-to-date and all the new features and bug fixes are delivered to you. If you don’t want the repo, you can remove it from the “Help” menu in Fedy.
Fedy saves the downloaded files for so that you can reuse them. It also takes backups before modifying system files for easy recovery. Unlike others, it can perform batch operations too.
Please click here to know more about Fedy.
Install media-codecs and VLC for media playback
Many of the codecs required to play mp3 files, avi files etc are missing from fedora. They must be installed along with a good multimedia player. And when we talk about multimedia player there is no one better than VLC media player.
Type the following code in the terminal
sudo yum install gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly ffmpeg
sudo yum install vlc
You can also install the media codecs using Fedy.
Install Gnome-tweak-tool and alternative shutdown menu
Gnome tweak tool is an utility to customize advance Gnome 3 options
Features:
- Install and switch gnome-shell themes
- Switch gtk/icon/cursor themes
- Switch window manager themes
- Change
- The user-interface and titlebar fonts
- Icons in menus and buttons
- Behavior on laptop lid close
- Shell font size
- File manager desktop icons
- Titlebar click action
- Shell clock to show date
- Font hinting and antialiasing
For installing gnome tweak tool type this in terminal
sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool
You can also install a gnome shell extension called ALTERNATIVE STATUS MENU.

Alternative Status Menu
By default, alternative status menu no longer displays the Hibernate option. The easiest way to fix this is to install the extension
sudo yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu
Then use gsettings to turn on Hibernate:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.alternative-status-menu allow-hibernate true
Then enable the extension in Tweak Tool and restart the shell (alt+f2 and enter r).
Install Google Chrome Browser
METHOD 1
First download and install the key from Google Linux Repository.
Run the following commands in the terminal, issue the password for the user when prompted.
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
sudo rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub
After installing the key run the below command to add it to the repository.
Note: Copy and paste the command as it is below (all the lines at once of a particular architecture at once) .
## Google Repository 32-bit x86 ##
sudo sh -c 'echo "[google-chrome]
name=Google Chrome 32-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo'
## Google Repository 64-bit x86_64 ##
sudo sh -c 'echo "[google-chrome]
name=Google Chrome 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo'
Now to install Google Chrome, run the following command:
sudo yum install google-chrome-stable
METHOD 2
You can also install Google Chrome using Fedy.
METHOD 3
Alternatively you can download the rpm version of Google Chrome from here and install it.
Install Adobe Flash Plugin
METHOD 1
You can download the .rpm package from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and install by double clicking the package.
METHOD 2
Using Adobe’s own YUM repository it is very easy also keep up-to-date with Flash Player Plugin.
- Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package
## Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 ##
sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ##
sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
- Install Adobe Flash Player along with its plugins
sudo yum install flash-plugin
Install other important plugins
nspluginwrapper is a proxy plug-in and viewer for NPAPI browser plug-ins. It allows browsers to run foreign plug-ins built for a different architecture, most commonly to run a 32-bit plug-in in a 64-bit browser.
PulseAudio (or PA for short) is a sound server that provides a number of features on top of the low-level audio interface ALSA on Linux, such as:
- Networking support (P2P and server mode).
- Per-application volume controls
- Better cross-platform support
- Dynamic latency adjustment, which can be used to save power
libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
libcurl might already be installed on your system. If not, install it.
sudo yum install nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
Install Unrar and 7 zip
sudo yum install unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins
Install Java Browser Plugin
OPTION 1 : Install ORACLE JRE/JDK
You can easily install Oracle JRE/JDK using Fedy.
OR
You can click here to see the procedure.
OPTION 2 : Install OPENJDK JRE
Alternatively you can install OpenJDK Java Runtime Environment by typing the following command:
su -c 'yum install java-*-openjdk java-*-openjdk-plugin'