Fedora

Basics

Becomming Root

$ su -l

Multiboot - Change default boot order (GRUB 2)

File: /etc/default/grub

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

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

# grep ^menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg | cut -d "'" -f2

# grub2-set-default <menu entry number>

# grub2-editenv list

RPM Fusion Repository

RPM Fusion provides software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship.

Required by:

• Graphics - NVIDIA (proprietary)
• MP3 support

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Drivers

Graphics - NVIDIA (proprietary)

# yum install vdpauinfo libva-vdpau-driver libva-utils

Repository (recommended)

Note: You need to add the RPM Fusion Repository first.

Note: akmod takes care of automatically rebuilding the kernel module after each kernel update.

Stable

# yum install akmod-nvidia

Optional: 32bit libraries needed e.g. for Wine.

# yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Latest

# yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide install akmod-nvidia

Optional: 32bit libraries needed e.g. for Wine.

# yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Manual (not recommended)

Warning: You manually need to go though the setup after each kernel update to rebuild the kernel module.

# systemctl stop kdm.service

# wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/319.17/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run

# chmod u+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run

# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run

# systemctl start kdm.service

Scanner - SANE compatible

# yum install sane-backends-drivers-scanners

Multimedia Codecs

MP3 support

Note: You need to add the RPM Fusion Repository first.

# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Software

Google Chrome

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

# yum install google-chrome-<stable/beta/unstable>

Steam

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/steam.repo

[steam]
name=Steam RPM packages (and dependencies) for Fedora
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam/fedora-$releasever/
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

# yum install steam

KDE - Localization

# yum install kde-l10n-German

Skanlite - KDE scanner application

# yum install skanlite

KeePassX - Password manager

# yum install keepassx

Tomahawk - Music player

# yum install tomahawk

Mumble - Voice chat software

# yum install mumble

Wine - Windows compatibility layer

# yum install wine

Yum Package Manager help

Proxy

File: /etc/yum.conf

[main]
proxy=http://<server>:<port>

Fix a self-restarting transaction that never finishes

# yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only