Fedora installation
Getting the iso
You can go to the fedora website for the iso or the fedora spin website. or Alternatively you can go the the respin server which is more updated than the original and it has the gnome iso and the other spins.
Partitioning
you need to manually partition the drive so that it can be easily upgraded.
This is for uefi system in btrfs system
we need to have 3 partitions
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/boot/efi make it 512 Mb
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/ make it 20 Gb
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/home make it 34 Gb
keep some extra space. the root and home partition values are based on your preferences.
Fedora post installation
DNF optimization
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echo 'fastestmirror=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
echo 'max_parallel_downloads=10' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
echo 'deltarpm=true' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
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Update
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sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade
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RPM FUSION free/non-free
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sudo dnf install \
https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \
https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
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In case you are using Gnome-software/KDE-Discover and you want the rpm fusion repos to appear in them download the following
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sudo dnf groupupdate core
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Multimedia post-install
RPM Fusion repositories also provide a lot of complement packages, it’s often difficult to remember which is the exact name of each complement package. One can easily remember using the package group that the repository extends.
Before installing the codecs we need to switch to full ffmpeg to avoid conflicts with system
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sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
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The following commands will install the complements multimedia packages needed by gstreamer enabled applications:
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sudo dnf groupupdate \
multimedia --setop="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
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sudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video
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Hardware Accelerated codec
RPM fusion gives you also hardware accelerated codecs to install depending on your graphics.
Intel(New)
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sudo dnf install intel-media-driver
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Intel (old)
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sudo dnf install libva-intel-driver
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AMD (mesa)
This is needed since Fedora 37 and later… and mainly concern AMD hardware since NVIDIA hardware with nouveau doesn’t work well
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sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld
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Nvidia
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sudo dnf install nvidia-vaapi-driver
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Nvidia drivers
using the rpm fusion repos nvidia can be installed using the following command
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sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
sudo reboot
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For legacy use the following with each case
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# For GeForce 600/700 NVIDIA series drivers ONLY
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx akmod-nvidia-470xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda
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# For GeForce 400/500 NVIDIA series drivers ONLY
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx akmod-nvidia-390xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx-cuda
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# For GeForce 8/9/200/300 NVIDIA series drivers ONLY
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-340xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-cuda
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for checking if installed you can chech through command line
Install applications
Flatpaks are enabled by default. You can remove it by dnf remove flatpak if you want.there is xdg-desktop-portals which make use of flatpaks service which autostarts. you can remove it.
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sudo dnf install openbox obconf flameshot ksnip vokoscreenNG obs-studio \
obs-studio-plugin-x264 yt-dlp tint2 vlc gparted xdotool yad \
lxrandr arandr lynx curl xclip conky wmctrl dunst jq dmenu rofi \
nitrogen figlet gpick sxiv xpad dos2unix fzf rsync p7zip fastfetch newsboat \
ncdu cheese xfce4-terminal thunar-archive-plugin lxappearance gedit galculator \
qrencode lshw lxtask dosfstools qt5ct qt6ct lxsession lm_sensors inkscape shotcut \
transmission-gtk fakeroot pavucontrol xarchiver unzip Zim gtksourceviewmm \
gxkb telegram-desktop torbrowser-launcher intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver \
graphviz firejail mpv firefox breeze-cursor-theme breeze-gtk breeze-gtk-common \
@fonts twolame inxi peek pdftk doublecmd-gtk adwaita-gtk2-theme \
evince herbstluftwm icewm i3 picom copyq cpu-x automake autoconf intltool \
gtk3-devel spacefm stacer unrar libunrar xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy xkill \
keepassxc screenkey mate-polkit st clipit kdialog \
leafpad ripgrep parallel acpi jgmenu datamash gnumeric gnumeric-plugins-extras \
rs miller mawk hyperfine mc
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Installing rar
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sudo dnf install https://forensics.cert.org/fedora/cert/39/x86_64/rar-6.2.2-1.fc39.x86_64.rpm
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Yad
For Yad to get latest version,
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git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad
cd yad
autoreconf -ivf && intltoolize
./configure && make
sudo make install
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also there is a pclinuxos version on website
https://pkgs.org/download/yad
just install it then copy /usr/bin/yad and others to /usr/local/bin/
or use this attached version
Fedy
Fedy makes it easy to install third-party software in Fedora.
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sudo dnf copr enable kwizart/fedy
sudo dnf install fedy
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CutyCapt
Xcape
To install xcape , run:
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sudo dnf install git gcc make pkgconfig libX11-devel libXtst-devel libXi-devel
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Then run:
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git clone https://github.com/alols/xcape.git
cd xcape
make
sudo make install
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Font-manager/viewer
First you need to enable copr for installation
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sudo dnf copr enable jerrycasiano/FontManager
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After you can install font by the following
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sudo dnf install thunar-font-manager
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Cherrytree
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sudo dnf copr enable bcotton/cherrytree
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install cherrytree-future
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will download latest version or
go to website and download the latest rpm file from there.
VirtualBox
To install virtualbox
Install Dependencies
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sudo dnf -y install @development-tools
sudo dnf -y install kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms \
elfutils-libelf-devel qt5-qtx11extras
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sudo dnf install VirtualBox
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Add your user to the vboxusers group
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sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER
newgrp vboxusers
id $USER
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Launch virtualbox in terminal to see if there are more errors. Reboot
Wine (> 1.3Gb)
Start by adding WineHQ repository with the latest stable packages for Wine.
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sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/39/winehq.repo
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After installing the repo install wine using the following code for stable
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sudo dnf -y install winehq-stable
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After installation run winecfg and install the required programs (.net,…)
For installation of winetricks use the following code below
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin/
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Gparted
To run gparted write the following first
Kanata
to get latest @kanata you need rust to be installed and use the following
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git clone https://github.com/jtroo/kanata.git
cd kanata
cargo build --features cmd --release
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kmonad/kanata config
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sudo usermod -aG input $USER
sudo groupadd uinput
sudo usermod -aG uinput $USER
echo 'KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0660", GROUP="uinput", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/90-uinput.rules
echo uinput | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/uinput.conf #if error no problem restart
sudo modprobe uinput
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Photoflare
2 methods to install photoflare
- using Fedy. open Fedy and check photflare in the Apps section
- using copr
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sudo dnf copr enable adriend/fedora-apps
sudo dnf install photoflare
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OBS STUDIO
3 methods to install obs-studio
1) Using rpm-fusion
If repo is not installed use the following:
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sudo dnf install \
https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \
https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
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Then
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sudo dnf install obs-studio-plugin-x264 obs-studio
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This version does not come with browser support so if you need browser support use the github page.
It still works even though it is archived.
2) Using flatpak
enable flathub
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flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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install flatpak
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flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio -y
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running obs
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flatpak run com.obsproject.Studio
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3) Building from source
building from source is good if you want to include browser support. Browser support plugin is included in flatpak and not in the RPM fusion repo.
you need RPM Fusion also before building. Installing dependencies first
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sudo dnf install alsa-lib-devel asio-devel cmake ffmpeg-free-devel fontconfig-devel \
freetype-devel gcc gcc-c++ gcc-objc git glib2-devel jansson-devel \
json-devel libavcodec-free-devel libavdevice-free-devel librist-devel \
libcurl-devel libdrm-devel libglvnd-devel libuuid-devel libva-devel \
libv4l-devel libX11-devel libXcomposite-devel libXdamage libXinerama-devel \
libxkbcommon-devel luajit-devel make mbedtls-devel pciutils-devel \
pipewire-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel python3-devel qt6-qtbase-devel \
qt6-qtbase-private-devel qt6-qtsvg-devel qt6-qtwayland-devel \
speexdsp-devel swig systemd-devel vlc-devel wayland-devel websocketpp-devel \
x264-devel
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After that downloading and cloning the obs repo with the following commands
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wget https://cdn-fastly.obsproject.com/downloads/cef_binary_5060_linux64.tar.bz2
tar -xjf ./cef_binary_5060_linux64.tar.bz2
git clone --recursive https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio.git
cd obs-studio
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DENABLE_BROWSER=ON -DCEF_ROOT_DIR="../../cef_binary_5060_linux64" -DENABLE_AJA=OFF -DENABLE_NEW_MPEGTS_OUTPUT=OFF ..
make -j4
sudo make install
echo "/usr/local/lib" | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf -a
sudo ldconfig
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One final note for virtualcam functionality if not found in obs-studio.
install the following and reboot.
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sudo dnf install v4l2loopback kmod-v4l2loopback
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Sozi
Sozi is a presentation tool for SVG documents.
For download go to the github page for updated rpm package. It is also available as appimage and deb
For the youtube video link