F 7 top 10 post-install packages

[lphilosophy]

I bet there's a few Fedora developers out there reading... let's provide them with some data so they can install more useful packages by default

browsing through /var/log/yum.log I see the packages I first installed, from the Fedora repository:

1. Thunderbird
2. SCIM related packages (I type in Japanese, before learning how to set-up alternate language text entry correctly) scim-gtk
3. nautilus-open-terminal
4. grace (scientific plotting program)
5. cmake, qt4, qt4-devel (so I can build the current version of Avogadro, chemistry viewing application)
6. compat-gcc-34-g77 (g77, "probably" the most widely used fortran compiler on earth, according to the gfortran wiki)
7. ... to be continued (___Your_entry_here___)

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A separate list, packages not in fedora repository. Kindly list which repo you got it from.

• GL graphics, required for Desktop effects. For me kmod-nvidia (& dependencies) from livna
• flash-plugin, (originally from macromedia.mplug.org flash.repo, now from adobe)
• ... ? maybe mplayer, dunno yet.. (___Your_entry_here___)

PS I searched, but couldn't find an analogous thread already

[robatino]

Thunderbird should definitely be on the install DVD, which was only about 2/3 full in F7 (and significantly smaller than that for FC6), though I understand if they choose not to install it by default. BTW, macromedia.mplug.org is closing down and flash-plugin now comes directly from Adobe - here's the repo config RPM:

http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe...0-0.noarch.rpm

[CD-RW]

Midnight Commander should be on every Linux distro by default, and also on the rescue CD as well :-)

[lphilosophy]

Originally Posted by robatino

BTW, macromedia.mplug.org is closing down and flash-plugin now comes directly from Adobe - here's the repo config RPM:

http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe...0-0.noarch.rpm

Thanks for pointing that out. The adobe repo was installed (and enabled) when I grabbed the version at mplug.org ... I'll edit the OP