Few Basic Steps!

Here is the collection of basic softwares and libraries one needs to make FC5 installation capable of all activities(in fact much more!) we do in windows. The pdf mentioned in previous blog is a good guide for those who are not familiar working with commands.

-->Make sure you selected customised selection of softwares and packages to be installed while installing Fedora. Otherwise KDE will be missing!(Very IMP Evironment) and several other imp tools you might want to use.

Broadly you need to do the following:
1. Install java.(jre-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.bin)
(To make it usable by applications you need to do some more things)
Read fedora core installation notes pdf "Java" section to know how to do that.
Whole installation procedure is listed in pdf.
2. Install Microsoft Trutype fonts in Microsoft_Core_Fonts Folder.
(For those who have doubts regarding how to do that, refer the pdf.)
3. Install compatibility library namely, "compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5.i386.rpm".
4. For Enabling NTFS mount install "kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-2.1.26-0.rr.10.0.i686.rpm"
5. Multimedia codec Install: inside Multimedia Codecs folder.(It's a source file so you need to follow the standard source installation procedure.) Those who can't do it see detailed instructions in pdf.
6.Install Acrobat Reader:"acroread-7.0.5-2.2.fc5.rf.i386.rpm" from command line. Do get into habit of command line installation in FC5. You would frequently need it!
7. Install Mplayer First. It's Non-GUI media player(but very powerful) over which Kplayer would work.
8. Install KPlayer. You can play any file now.
9. Install Real Player.(BIN File)(Refer pdf)
10. Install VLC if you need. Though it needs a lot of libraries to be installed first.)
11. Once you have installed freedom, you can use gaim client already present in FC5 to log into your favorite messenger.

Get Going!
Hail Open Source!