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Fedora 3X DNF installs

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sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo dnf install SDL SDL2 SDL-devel SDL2-devel SDL_gfx SDL_gfx-devel powerline powerline-fonts mc htop boost-devel kate kdevelop geany openssl openssl-devel nmap ccache
sudo dnf install f23-backgrounds-extras-gnome f24-backgrounds-extras-gnome f25-backgrounds-extras-gnome f26-backgrounds-extras-gnome f27-backgrounds-extras-gnome f28-backgrounds-extras-gnome f29-backgrounds-extras-gnome f30-backgrounds-extras-gnome f31-backgrounds-extras-gnome
sudo dnf install jupyter-notebook gitg monodevelop gnome-builder inkscape gimp blender spacenavd krita dia scribus lollypop virt-manager seahorse gnome-password-generator nextcloud-client nautilus-image-converter R-base dconf-editor R-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel rstudio-desktop
sudo dnf install evolution python3-spyder
flatpak --user install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/fr.handbrake.ghb.flatpakref

flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.qgis.qgis.flatpakref

flatpak install flathub io.dbeaver.DBeaverCommunity

follow this link to sort out the Fn button on an Apple keyboard Super User use the systemd one. You will also need to enable the spacenavd service using systemctl enable spacenavd etc.

Other things to install:

Android Studio
Spyder
Pycharm Community Edition
Webstorm

Displaylink driver for RPM based distros https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm/releases

Fslint

Extensions:
TopIcons Plus
Dash to Dock
GSConnect
set up Powerline

Enable the minimise maximise close buttons and set the screen blank for an hour:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 1800
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size 45

Other things to do:

Add yourself to the virt-manager group

sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)

Installing steam on fedora 22

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I had some trouble once I’d installed steam. It would fail to find the swrast driver. After some searching I found that the following command pulled through the required libraries:

sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

This didn’t work quite so well on Fedora 23 so try this…

sudo dnf install nvidia-driver-libs

or use yumex-dnf to install nvidia-driver-libs.

Set Grub2 (Fedora 19) default boot to…something other

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grep menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Copy the name of the OS you want as default
then access the /etc/default/grub file as root

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Replace whatever is currently being given to GRUB_DEFAULT with the OS name you want as the default (enclose the OS name in “”)

Then run as root:

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

…and reboot to test

I don’t think this survives a Kernel update, but the process is not onerous, and no sacrifices to the gods are required.

some grep

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Find all instances of java in the output list from the rpm installed packages list.

rpm -qa | grep "java"

Add an Eclipse Icon under ubuntu 12.04

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Install (just extract the gz file to your home drive if you want) the version on the Eclipse web site, then create a file called eclipse.desktop and give it the following contents: 

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/home/mike/eclipse/icon.xpm
Name=Eclipse Indigo 3.7
#Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /eclipse
Exec=env /home/mike/eclipse/eclipse

making sure you put the correct path in the two places you need it (the execution path and the image path)