Fedora 19 - Install Adobe, flash player, drivers, Google Chrome all at once

A few months ago came the version of the Fedora 19 distribution, plus many updates, brought several new important features. The official Fedora repositories have hundreds of packages, applications and games. But as in most other GNU / Linux distributions do not come by default codecs and proprietary software for licensing reasons, so are not included in any official repository.

Some apps were not found in the official Fedora repositories, for example, the famous open source VLC Media Player, will be included in some proprietary software libraries, and so it is not available in official one. For users who want to install VLC, SMPlayer, proprietary drivers for your video cards AMD and Nvidia, as FFMpeg tools, unrar, unace and etc, you can use the RPM Fusion repository.

ADDING REPOSITORY RPM FUSION

Adding RPM Fusion repository in Fedora 19 is very simple, just open the terminal and type:

chmod + x *. bin
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

ADDING REPOSITORY OF ADOBE

If you want to install the plugin Adobe Flash Player on Fedora 19, you can use the repository offered by Adobe:

For Fedora 19 32-bit:
su
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

For Fedora 19 64-bit:
su
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

To install the Flash Plugin

su
yum check-update
yum install flash-plugin

ADDING REPOSITORY OF GOOGLE

Google Earth and Google Music Manager. In this case, simply install the repository to automatically add the Google apps.

wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
su 
rpm --import linux_signing_key.pub

Fedora OS disappeared after Windows OS update or installation

If you installed Fedora in your system first and Windows OS after it, you may run into an issue Fedora OS no more available in the boot. In this case you need to re-install GRUB bootloader. To install the GRUB bootloader boot from your Fedora DVD installation disk. Booting from disk will give you some option like 'Start Fedora' and 'Troubleshooting'. Don't click on 'Start Fedora' it will simply run the LIVE OS. Click on 'Troubleshooting' and then select 'Rescue a Fedora System'.

You system now boots into rescue mode. Now you can see only a prompt and you won't get any graphical interface. All you want to do is install grub in the first partition of your hard disk. Don't panic just enter the below command after the prompt to install grub.

grub-install /dev/sda1

Above command is to re-install the GRUB bootloader.

Now you need to create a configuration file. This configuration file will add Fedora OS in the boot menu. Use the below command.

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg