Fedora Core 11 installation

List of additional software I install after installing a new Fedora release, as well as tips and tricks for each if there are any.

1. Gnucash
2. Easytag
- useful for tagging mp3s
3. VLC
Media player
4. Kino
Video editor- Seems to work but I haven't fiddled much. At the moment my video plays very quickly in the preview.
5. Firefox
5.1 flash plugin
Adobe repository doesn't seem to be set up for yum and I'm battling to do it so I just went to:
http://get.adobe.com and downloaded the rpm there.
5.2 sun's java
I'm afraid the java version that comes with fedora / firefox doesn't run all java apps. Specifically, the online stock charting from standard bank (www.standardbank.co.za) that I use for stock analysis.
So get the latest download from the java site. This was jre-6u16-linux-i586.rpm when I got mine. install it (rpm -i jre-6u....).
You then need to set up the symbolic link in the firefox plugins-
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_16/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
6 fdupes
yum -y install fdupes
This is a useful package for finding all your duplicate mp3s photos etc.
7 id3ed
I use this for command line mp3 tag editing and I have scripts that use this to rename mp3s according to their artist and title in order to standardise filenames.
Get the gzipped tar from http://freshmeat.net/projects/id3ed/
Then tar -zxvf id3ed-1.10.4.tar.gz
cd to the directory (cd id3ed-1.10.4)
./configure
make
make install
Had to modify the Makefile because it defaults the man files to /usr/local/man whereas they seem to bin /usr/share/man for FC11. So I hardcoded the following line in the Makefile from
mandir=${prefix}/man
to
mandir=/usr/share/man

and that worked.