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

Release Upgrade

# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install fedup

Choose nonproduct if you use a desktop spin, e.g. KDE spin (other available product options are workstation, server and cloud).

# fedup-cli --network 21 --product=nonproduct

Cleanup after upgrade

# fedup-cli --clean

RPM Fusion Repository

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

Required by:

• Graphics - NVIDIA (proprietary)
• WLAN Broadcom BCM43xx
• MP3 support
• XBMC

# 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

Remove old Kernels

# package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=1

Disable Firewall

Warning: Not recommended!

# systemctl disable firewalld.service

Disable SELinux

Warning: Not recommended!

File: /etc/selinux/config

SELINUX=permissive

Enable hard-restarting the X server via Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

    Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp, "

Drivers

Graphics - NVIDIA (proprietary)

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

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

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

# yum install akmod-nvidia

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

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

To remove the driver and enable nouveau again:

# yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig

WLAN - Broadcom BCM43xx

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

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

# yum install broadcom-wl akmod-wl

Scanner - SANE compatible

# yum install sane-backends-drivers-scanners

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>

Note: If you want to have a working quick starter in KDE launch google-chrome from the terminal once to add the launcher.

Google Talk/Hangouts Plugin

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

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

# yum install google-talkplugin

Skype

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

# yum install lpf-skype

# lpf update skype

Steam

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

# yum install steam

See Steam for known workarounds for common problems.

Java

# yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk

Java web plugin

# yum install icedtea-web

KDE - Localization

# yum install kde-l10n-German

# yum install calligra-l10n-de

Skanlite - KDE scanner application

# yum install skanlite

KeePassX - Password manager

# yum install keepassx

Mumble - Voice chat software

# yum install mumble

VLC media player

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

# yum install vlc

Audex - Audio grabber

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

# yum install audex

Wine - Windows compatibility layer

# yum install wine

XBMC

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

# yum install xbmc

Multimedia Codecs

MP3 support

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

# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

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

Fix Error: db5-Error(-xxxxx) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery =

# rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*

# rpm --rebuilddb

Remove a package which fails to uninstall with yum (e.g. kde-settings-kdm.noarch 0:19-23.fc19)

# rpm -e --noscripts kde-settings-kdm-19-23.fc19