A basic guide to satisfy all your needs:

NOTE:all commands r to be typed in terminal with sudo or su login
PS:” All yum commands can be replaced by package kit alternatives type “info pkcon” in terminal.

1)Adding livna repositories : (VERY ESSENTIAL ALL OTHER STEPS REQUIRE THIS)
Since Fedoras own repositories dont have much softwares use livna or packman repositories
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
then yum update

2)YUMEX :install yumex for gui interface for yum , though package kit suffices.

3)MP3 SUPPORT:

Now u can either use YUMEX or type in terminal.
Gstreamer & Xine

yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad libmad libid3tag amarok-extras-nonfree

Note: this is needed for players like: banshee, listen, exaile, amarok ,rhythmbox,xmms

install any player eg for amarok yum install amarok amarok-extras-nonfree

4)GCC compatibility:

Fedora 9 ships and uses GCC 4.3 (DVD). Some applications that were compiled with an older GCC (ex: 3.2) will require compatibility libraries

yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296

5)REAL PLAYER:(After this if it doesn’t work refer to my other posts)

Download RealPlayer 11 from: http://www.real.com/linux/. ( preferably use .bin file)

Select: “Advanced Installation RedHat Package”

Before installing RealPlayer, make sure to have the compat-libstdc++-33 compatibility libraries installed.
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
For RPM:
sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer11.rpm

note:if real/helix or any plugin doesnt load in firefox use: sudo /usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config -i -f

6)Video Players: mostly vlc,xine and mplayer r used:

mplayer: yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mencoder
xine yum install xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss
vlc yum install vlc (After this if it doesn’t work refer to my other posts)

i prefer xine as it has DVD playback.

7)Video w32 Binary Codecs: some unsupported formats can be played by installing codecs from original mplayer project:

Download http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2

then

mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs

tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 –strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/

*Remember to be in su or use sudo

8)Macromedia Flash :

For 32 bit:

install the Adobe YUM repository, and install through yum:

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

yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport (if you dont do this no sound for flash applicatons)

For 64 bit:

mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
yum install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaud/io-lib.i386
yum install flash-plugin
mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v

(for sound your system may require pulse audio)

*Remember to be in su or use sudo

9)Mounting Partitions: Fedora 9 has ntfs 3g preinstalled but sometimes the partitions don’t get mounted      ( or you just may want to get rid of irritating authentication for each mount)

hence editing fstab gives read/write support on boot

a) use fdisk : /sbin/fdisk -l

b) note down partions u wnt to access name (eg sda1) type (eg ntfs or FAT32)

c)open gedit in sudo mode

d)open /etc/fstab

e)make mount points:
mkdir /media/drive
drive can be replaced by whatever name u choose

f)
for ntfs drive sda1 keeping name c_drive /dev/sda1 /media/c_drive ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
or simply /dev/sda1 /media/c_drive ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

if drive is fat use vfat instead of ntfs-3g u dont require other lines

10)Iced Tea Java is by default (dvd) installed if not use yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin

Or use download sun-java (JDK best for x86_64 for , others can use JRE. ( eg. jre-6u6-linux-i586.bin)

To switch between them

1) /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/bin/java 100
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/bin/jar 100
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/javavc javavc /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/bin/javavc 100

2)/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 100
3) To use Switch among javas:
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
/usr/sbin/alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --config jar
4)For Java Programs:
yum install libXp compat-libstdc++-*

11)Setup Sudo:

Ideally This Topic should have been first but i mostly use su (root account)

echo 'name ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

replace name by account name you want to give super-user privileges.
This command translates into allow user ‘name’ to run any command any where.
Password will be normal login password.

echo 'name ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

would not prompt for password.

12)MISC:

a) To listen to music when you hover over a mp3 file and it’s also a command line player:

yum install mpg321

b)To Burn DVDs/CDs :
K3B:

yum install k3b k3b-extras-nonfree

GNOME-BAKER:

yum install gnome-baker

c)To use Windows Applications

Wine
with/without Wine-Doors or Cedega
(see my older posts)

d)Download Accelerator

Axel and Aria
(see my older posts)

e)Quake styled terminal

Yakuake ( requires kdebase) and tilda

f) RAR files

unrar

g)Windows Help Files CHM

xchm