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Submitted by CSch (Contact Author) (Forums) on Tue, 2012-06-05 17:26. ::

3 Update The System

Now it's time to check for updates and install them. This is done using

Software Update. Start it from Activities > Applications > Update

Manager:

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The Software Update wizard comes up and checks for the latest updates. Click on Install Updates to install them:

Some of the updates might need to install packages they depend on. Click Continue to go on:


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In some cases a restart is required after updating the system. Do so by clicking on Restart Computer:

The system is now up-to-date.

4 Disable SELinux

SELinux is a security extension of Fedora that should provide extended security. In my opinion you don't need it to configure a

secure system, and it usually causes more problems than advantages (think of it after you have done a week of trouble-

shooting because some service wasn't working as expected, and then you find out that everything was ok, only SELinux was


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causing the problem). Therefore I choose disable it, although you might prefer to go with it. I haven't tested this setup with

SELinux enabled - it might well be that it works without problems, but if it does not, you can try to turn SELinux off and see if

the problem is gone.

To disable SELinux, open a terminal (Activities > Applications > Terminal).

Open /etc/sysconfig/selinux as root:

sudo gedit /etc/sysconfig/selinux

... and set SELINUX to disabled:

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.# disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.SELINUX=disabled# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:


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# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.# strict - Full SELinux protection.SELINUXTYPE=targeted

To make the change effective, we must reboot the system:

reboot

5 Inventory Of What We Have So Far

Now let's browse all menus to see which of our needed applications are already installed:

You should find the following situation ([x] marks an application that is already installed, whereas [ ] is an application that is

missing):

Graphics:

[ ] The GIMP

[x] Shotwell Photo Manager

[ ] Pinta

Internet:

[x] Firefox

[ ] FileZilla

[ ] Thunderbird

[ ] Deluge

[ ] Skype

[ ] Marble

[ ] Pidgin

[ ] Dropbox

[ ] Gwibber Social Client


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Office:

[ ] LibreOffice Writer

[ ] LibreOffice Calc

[ ] Adobe Reader

[ ] GnuCash

[ ] Scribus

Sound & Video:

[ ] Audacity

[ ] Banshee

[ ] dvd::rip

[ ] VLC Media Player

[ ] K3B

[ ] Multimedia-Codecs

[ ] Winff

Programming:

[ ] KompoZer

[ ] Eclipse

Other:

[ ] VirtualBox

[ ] TrueType fonts

[ ] Java

[x] Read/Write support for NTFS partitions

[x] gedit

So some applications are already on the system. NTFS read-/write support is enabled by default on Fedora 17.

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