Things to do after installing Fedora 16 on Vmware Workstation 7

yum -y update

yum -y update kernel


Restart

yum -y install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc-c++ kernel-PAE-devel


Restart


yum -y install qt-devel qt-config


Restart


Then go to http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ and download 2 rpm files for Fedora16(free and non-free) and install them by rpm -ivh command to add rpmforge repositories to Fedora16.


Then go to http://rpm.livna.org/ and download the rpm file and install it to add livna repositories to Fedora 16


Then install codecs by

yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg phonon-backend-gstreamer


yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs


yum -y install libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd

By Default Perl is not installed in Fedora 16


to install perl


(yum grouplist "Perl Development" 

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit

Adding en_US to language list


Setting up Group Process


updates/group_gz
408 kB 00:00


updates-testing/group_gz
408 kB 00:00


Installed Groups:


Perl Development




install perl and a lot of useful additions. To install it that way, instead of "grouplist" use "groupinstall" .)




yum groupinstall "Perl Development"
 
after install see the version of perl by
 
perl -v


install gnome-tweak-tool by


yum -y install gnome-tweak-tool


install wxPython by


yum -y install wxPython


install wine by


yum install wine


yum install xfs


yum install ttmkfdir



wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-1.5-x86.msi
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/wine/gecko
sudo mv wine_gecko-1.5-x86.msi /usr/share/wine/gecko/

download chkfontpath rpm and install it


yum install cabextract rpm-build

wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

 rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

 rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

/sbin/service xfs reload

download winetricks rpm and install it


yum -y install ncurses-devel  qt3-devel libXi-devel  gtk2-devel libglade2-devel

Then Install Vmware Tools