Thursday, November 15, 2012

Linux Setup Document

This post is basically for myself. I'm a big fan of Fedora Linux. This document goes through all of the different small setup things I do when setting up a new workstation. I put it here in the hopes that someone else can learn from my methods (and maybe improve on them!)
  • yum install eterm Eterm e16 enlightenment pv pbzip2 yum-downloadonly gkrellm sysstat unrar rar tcpreplay wireshark
  •  vi /etc/cron.d/sysstat
    Change the first line to run every 2 minutes, rather than 10
  • vi /etc/logrotate.conf
    Set to keep 104 weeks of logs
    Uncomment the compress line
  • time yum update yum\*
  • time yum update rpm\*
  • time yum --downloadonly update
  • vi /etc/grub2.cfg
    Remove quiet & rhgb
    kill the load_video stuff
  • time yum update
  • Reboot
Install Google Chrome and plugins:
  • Goto http://www.google.com/ click on the blue button to download the rpm. Install it.
  • Launch Google Chrome
  • Install Google Voice / Chat Video plugin thing. How
  • Install google-musicmanager
Install CERT Forensics Tools:
  • yum install http://www.cert.org/forensics/tools/cert-forensics-tools-release-17.rpm
  • yum install CERT-Forensics-Tools
 Install 3rd party repo's and multimedia tools:
  • yum localinstall http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
  • yum localinstall http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
  • TBD
  • yum install vlc mplayer mplayer-gui
I'll be updating this as I learn new tricks. Feel free to add your own below!

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