Things to do after Fedora install¶

DNF Configuration¶

Open the config file for dnf using your desired editor using sudo privileges. Here I will be using Vim editor. You can use nano or most preferably any GUI based text editor.

sudo vim /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Then add the follow lines in the config file:

# Added for speed
fastestmirror=True
max_parallel_downloads=10
defaultyes=True
keepcache=True

To know about above options, read the official documentation here

Then save and exit. After this, you should see faster updates.

If you want to clean the cache, just do

sudo dnf clean all

System Update¶

It is nice to update your dnf config you just edited in the last step.

sudo dnf update

RPM Fusion¶

It provides software programs that Fedora doesn't provide by default. Read more about this here. In the link, you can read how to do this by GUI as well. For command line you can type

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

In order to install these non-free packages from graphical Package Manager do the following.

sudo dnf groupupdate core

Adding Flathub¶

Fedora ships with flatpak by default, but this is a stripped down version of it. We need to enable flathub.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Now you can see in your GUI the option to install the flatpak packages.

Change hostname¶

When you open the terminal, you would see something in this format username@hostname. We can change the hostname of the new installation.

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname new-name

Now you can reboot to see the changes take effect.

Add media codecs¶

RPM Fusion repositories also provide a lot of complement packages which is neccessary.

sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia --setop="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin

and,

sudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video

Few more apps¶

A few more apps can be installed from graphical Package Manager for customizability. - Gnome Tweaks - Extensionssudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-videosudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-videosudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video