Fedora 32 Post Installation (For Developers). Things you should do after installing your new Fedora workstation.

fedora_post_install.md

Fedora 31, 32, 33 Post Installation (For Developers)

Things you should do after installing your new Fedora workstation.

Settings

Change Hostname

• Method (a): from Settings -> About, change Device Name.
• Method (b): from terminal, run (change <newhostname> to your liking):

  sudo hostnamectl set-hostname <newhostname>

Mouse, Touchpad and Keyboard

• Go to Settings -> Devies -> Mouse & Touchpad to enable touchpad scrolling and taps.
• Go to Settings -> Devies -> Keyboard Shortcuts to add shortcut for Terminal (Command: gnome-terminal), Swtich windows, Switch applications, Hide all normal windows, etc.

Desktop and Display

• Go to Settings -> Displays to adjust your monitors and resolution settings.

DNF Plugins

Enable dnf fastest mirror

• Edit /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and append the following lines

  fastestmirror=true
  deltarpm=true

• Run

  sudo dnf update
  sudo dnf upgrade

Software Sources

Enable third party repositories:

• Software -> Software Repositories -> Third Party Repositories -> Enable All
• From the list below, enable required repositories such as google-chrome, nvidia-drivers, steam, etc.

Enable rpm-fusion

• Free

  sudo rpm -Uvh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

• Non-free

  sudo rpm -Uvh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

• Source

Microsoft core fonts

• Add repository and install additional fonts

  sudo dnf install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
  sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm

• Source

Software updates

• Open Software, Go to Updates tab and hit the refresh button.
• Install all updates (if any). This may take a few minutes to several hours.
• Reboot your system once the process is finished.

Drivers

GPU Drivers

• Note: Driver installation is a tricky process and many things can go wrong, proceed with caution.
• Nvidia driver installation guide.
• For AMD GPUs: Opensource amdgpu driver is already included.

Multimedia

Install Google Chrome

• After enabling google-chrome package from Third Party Repositories, search and install from Software
• Start Chrome from Application Dashboard to update settings, connect google account, enable syncing etc.

Install VLC and Codecs

• Install VLC Player: sudo dnf install vlc
• VLC comes in with most common codecs you will need. For additional codecs, open Software and search codecs. Install various GStreamer codecs from search results.

SSH Keys and VPN

Enable ssh

• Install: sudo dnf install -y openssh-server
• Start service at boot: sudo systemctl enable sshd.service
• Start service: sudo systemctl start sshd.service
• To test, run: ssh localhost -l <username>
• Change default port:
  • Open sshd_config: sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  • Find a line: Port 22 (or #Port 22)
  • Change it to some other port number (choose port number between 1024 and 65535): Port 2222 (make sure to remove commenting #).
  • Save the file.
  • Update iptable and firewall to allow traffic:

    sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 2222 -j ACCEPT
    sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=2222/tcp
    sudo firewall-cmd --reload

  • Restart sshd service: sudo systemctl restart sshd.service
  • Verify that your new port is open: netstat -tulpn | grep 2222

Genrate SSH public-private keys

• Run ssh-keygen and answer the prompts.
• Verify you have the files: ls ~/.ssh
• Start ssh-agent: eval `ssh-agent`
• Add private key to ssh-agent: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
• You can now use the content of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub as your public key.
• For example, add the conent of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub as your bigbucket.org or github.com ssh key.
• To verify: ssh -T [email protected] or, ssh -T [email protected]

Enable L2TP VPN

• Install packages for L2TP

  sudo dnf -y install \
  xl2tpd openvpn libreswan \
  NetworkManager-l2tp \
  NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome \
  NetworkManager-openvpn \
  NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome \
  NetworkManager-pptp \
  NetworkManager-pptp-gnome \
  NetworkManager-strongswan \
  NetworkManager-strongswan-gnome

• Restart NetworkManager: sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
• Use nm-connection-editor to add connections
• To create a vpn connection from an .opvpn file, select Import a saved VPN configuration... from drop-down.

Development Tools

Vim

• Install vim: sudo dnf install vim
• Create file ~/.vimrc and add following content

  syntax on
  set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab
  set autoindent

Visual Studio Code

• Run following commands

  sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
  sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo'
  sudo dnf check-update
  sudo dnf install code

• Source

JetBrains Toolbox

• Download tar.gz archive from Toolbox App page.
• Extract and run JetBrains Toolbox binary executable file by double clicking.
• This should install and run the toolbox. You can install your favorite JetBrains IDEs (PyCharm Community, IntelliJ IDEA Community, Android Studio, etc) from the toolbox, it will keep them updated too.
• You can remove downloaded and extracted files after installation.

Docker

• Install DNF plugins core:

  sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core

• Add repository configuration:

  sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/docker-ce.repo<<EOF
  [docker-ce-stable]
  name=Docker CE Stable - \$basearch
  baseurl=https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/31/\$basearch/stable
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/gpg
  EOF

• Install docker

  sudo dnf makecache
  sudo dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

• Start docker service and check status

  sudo systemctl start docker
  sudo systemctl status docker

• Add yourself to docker usergroup to access without sudo

  sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami) && newgrp docker

• Update firewall

  sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-interface=docker0 && sudo firewall-cmd --reload

• Change to cgroup v1 and reboot system (required to run docker since Fedora 31):

  sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0"
  sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

• To revert back to cgroup v2, run following commands and reboot:

  sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy"
  sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Development Tools

Git

• Comes with Git 2.26+

Python

• Comes with Python 3.8, follow this for older versions of Python 3.
• Install python headers and static libraries: sudo dnf install python3-devel
• Update pip: python -m --user pip install --upgrade pip
• Install python libraries like cookiecutter, tox, pytest, etc using pip.

Go

• Download linux archive and run tar -C /usr/local -xzf go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
• Upate $PATH variable at the end of your ~/.bashrc file:

  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

• Source bashrc file: source ~/.bashrc