Fedora 17 multimedia setup tips: http://www.securitronlinux.com/fedora-core-15-package-management/. Tips on setting up the multimedia packages on Fedora Core 17. Easy MP3 codec installation. This does not install the codecs required to playback Xvid movies, but if you try to play an Xvid movie in Totem, it will pop up a message box telling you about the missing codec and you may install the codec package right there. This is what the / root folder looks like on Fedora Core 17. The /bin, /lib, /lib64 and /sbin folders have been moved into the /usr folder.
[flynn@deusex ~]$ ls -hula / total 188K dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 4.0K Jul 6 13:31 . dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 4.0K Jul 6 13:31 .. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jul 6 12:31 bin -> usr/bin dr-xr-xr-x. 5 root root 4.0K Jul 6 18:40 boot drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4.1K Jul 6 18:39 dev drwxr-xr-x. 117 root root 12K Jul 6 18:33 etc drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Jul 6 14:04 home lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jul 6 12:31 lib -> usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jul 6 12:35 lib64 -> usr/lib64 drwx------. 2 root root 16K May 23 06:46 lost+found drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 40 Jul 6 14:04 media drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Jul 6 14:04 mnt drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K May 23 06:46 opt dr-xr-xr-x. 186 root root 0 Jul 6 12:34 proc -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 113K Jul 6 12:35 .readahead dr-xr-x---. 8 root root 4.0K Jul 6 18:36 root drwxr-xr-x. 34 root root 1.1K Jul 6 18:36 run lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Jul 6 12:31 sbin -> usr/sbin drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K May 23 06:46 srv drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 0 Jul 6 02:34 sys drwxrwxrwt. 18 root root 4.0K Jul 6 12:48 tmp drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4.0K Jul 6 13:39 usr drwxr-xr-x. 19 root root 4.0K May 23 06:47 var |
This is the resulting layout of the /usr folder, of course the / folder has the symbolic links to these folders, much of the software on Linux would be expecting this layout.
[flynn@deusex ~]$ ls -hula /usr total 192K drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4.0K Jul 6 13:39 . dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 4.0K Jul 6 13:31 .. dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 40K Jul 6 18:51 bin drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K May 23 06:47 etc drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Jul 6 13:38 games drwxr-xr-x. 33 root root 4.0K May 23 06:47 include dr-xr-xr-x. 27 root root 4.0K Jul 6 17:52 lib dr-xr-xr-x. 127 root root 68K Jul 6 18:43 lib64 drwxr-xr-x. 28 root root 12K Jul 6 13:38 libexec drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4.0K May 23 06:47 local dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 20K Jul 6 18:39 sbin drwxr-xr-x. 233 root root 12K Jul 6 14:06 share drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4.0K May 23 06:46 src lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 6 02:35 tmp -> ../var/tmp |
After installation it is recommended to run this command to install all of the pending updates: sudo yum update. The Gnome-Shell desktop works admirably, unlike the Gnome Shell desktop available for Ubuntu 12.10, all of the extensions available install without a hitch. The Zukitwo theme for the Gnome Shell desktop is a theme that I highly recommend, if you install the gnome-tweak-tool then you may configure the Gnome desktop and set it up however you wish.