Setting up a Cinnamon based Fedora Desktop

JaredBusch

As most of you know I switch to using Korora 25 back in April and then when they did not update in a timely manner, I switched to Fedora 26. Now 27 is current.

Well, I just received a new desktop and needed to set things up again, so I thought I would document the process I use.

1: Download Fedora, I only recommend the NetInstall version, because then you know that everything is up to date during install.
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
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2: Install Fedora and choose the Cinnamon Desktop option. Also set a root password and then create your user and give it admin rights.
(screenshots later)

3: After you log in the first time, start installing things you are going to use.

sudo dnf install sysstat htop glances libreoffice dnf-automatic icedtea-web shutter nextcloud-client git

4: Install the RPM Fusion Free repo to get your:
HTML 5 playback - https://mangolassi.it/topic/15881/using-html5-playback-in-firefox-on-fedora
Telegram - https://mangolassi.it/topic/14947/install-telegram-desktop-on-fedora-26-and-newer-with-cinnamon-desktop

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install telegram-desktop ffmpeg-libs

5: Install Visual Studio Code

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 install code

6: Install Google Chrome

sudo dnf install -y https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

7: Install KVM if you are going to locally run a VM for testing things, or need to have a Windows instance locally.
https://mangolassi.it/tags/kvm

# note this requires the root password
su -c "dnf install @virtualization"
su -c "systemctl start libvirtd"
su -c "systemctl enable libvirtd"
sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME libvirt

That is about it.

Most of these have some minor setup steps of their own and I will link to existing posts for those as I get a bit of time.

Alex Sage

@JaredBusch Nice Guide!

JaredBusch

Some links added for reference to the original post. I will edit more as I find anything I failed to install.

Obsolesce

@jaredbusch said in Setting up a Cinnamon based Fedora Desktop:

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install telegram ffmpeg-libs

telegram-desktop is what I used. Does just telegram work for you?

JaredBusch

@tim_g said in Setting up a Cinnamon based Fedora Desktop:

@jaredbusch said in Setting up a Cinnamon based Fedora Desktop:
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install telegram ffmpeg-libs
telegram-desktop is what I used. Does just telegram work for you?

No, that was a late night typo on my part. Fixed.

JaredBusch

Added git to step 3. Not sure how I missed that.

JaredBusch

Well crap, I never added pictures to step 2.
I will try to get to that later this afternoon.