15 things to do after Installing Fedora Workstation - any version 25+

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Fedora is an independent linux distribution fund by RedHat Enterprise Linux and is the pre-testing platform for RedHat releases. It has a release cycle of 6 months and brings up-to date software packages. This also makes the use to install a new version every 6 months, and the user should set up his work-space after every install. There is a method to update to latest release server but there is always users to like to do a fresh install and also novice user. This tutorial gives you a list of packages I install and initial setup.

1. Do a full system update.
   The first thing to do after installing any linux distro is to do a full system update. The update gives the new security features and bug fixes.

   sudo dnf update -y
   

2. Enable RPM Fusion repos.

   RPM Fusion repos brings extra packages for your fedora system, the repos include free and non-free releases.

   The below command can be verified here.

   sudo dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
   

1. Enable Delta RPM and fastest mirrors.

   Delta RPM or DRPM and fastest mirrors gives update only features i.e. when installing the updates of new packages only the update is downloaded instead of the whole new package. To enable this you should edit the dnf configuration file.

   sudo vi /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
   

   The file should like this,

   [main]
   gpgcheck=1
   installonly_limit=3
   clean_requirements_on_remove=True
   

   Now append this two lines to the end of the file.

   fastestmirror=true
   deltarpm=true
   

   Then the final file should look like this,

   [main]
   gpgcheck=1
   installonly_limit=3
   clean_requirements_on_remove=True
   fastestmirror=true
   deltarpm=true
   

1. Install Graphic applications.

   These are the basic photo editor GIMP and vector art creator Inkscape.

   sudo dnf install -y gimp inkscape
   

1. Install VLC media player.

   VLC media player is the most famous and most used media player. It supports nearly every file format therefore it is a very important piece of software in and computer.

   sudo dnf install -y vlc
   

1. Install JAVA web plug-ins.

   sudo dnf install -y java-openjdk icedtea-web
   

1. Install extraction tools.

   In linux Tape Archiver (TAR) is the most used archiving tool, but you may want to work with files from other operating system like zip and rar, which need special tools to work with them.

   sudo dnf install -y unzip unrar
   

1. Install wine.

   Microsoft Windows is the most used operating system and has a lot of softwares that is made for it. When we run linux there may be some irreplaceable windows software that we need to use that we cannot resist. This is where wine comes into play. These softwares can be run using wine.

   sudo dnf install -y wine
   

1. Install YouTube-dl.

   This tool is used to download youtube videos and this also supports may other websites like vimeo for downloading videos.

   sudo dnf install -y youtube-dl
   

1. Install Thunderbird email client.

   Everybody knows the best email client by mozilla

   sudo dnf install -y thunderbird
   

1. Install qBittorrent torrent client.

   If you are a torrent downloader this is the best choice. Because it has an awesome internal search feature.

   sudo dnf install -y qbittorrent
   

1. Install VirtualBox.

   Virtual machine or VM is used to run a virtual computer inside our computer. The best virtual machine manager is Virtual Box.

   First you need to create a repo file.

   sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo
   

   And then paste this script

   [virtualbox]
   name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox
   baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   repo_gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc
   

1. Install Dropbox.

   Dropbox is a cloud storage service.

   sudo dnf install -y dropbox
   

1. Install redshift.

   Redshift is a night light software which apply blue light filter.

   sudo dnf install -y redshift
   

1. Install KDE Plasma desktop.

   KDE plasma is the most powerful and most customizable linux desktop environment.

   sudo dnf install -y @kde-desktop
   

Above are the packages I install after a fresh installation of fedora workstation. If you see any error above or while installing let me know in the comments. Also if there is any other package that is worth during post fedora install, please do let me know in the comments.

Thank you.

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