Configs

Fedora

Post-Install steps for Fedora

Refer below TechHut video:

DNF

• dnf is the package manager for Fedora. On a fresh install, DNF might seem slow
• Edit options in the /etc/dnf/dnf.conf file to make it faster. You can refer my DNF config file as well as the DNF Configuration docs to see all available options

RPM Fusion

Follow the instructions on RPM Fusion Configuration page to enable RPM Fusion repositories on Fedora

# Enable access to both the free and the nonfree repository
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

# On Fedora, the default is openh264, so we have to explicitly enable
sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264

sudo dnf group update core

Multimedia codecs

• You may need to install few media codecs that weren’t present in the minimal free and open sources codecs in the fresh installation
• Refer the Fedora docs as well as the RPMFusion docs and only install what’s relevant to your machine specifications. Avoid the firmware commands. Mine is an AMD system so I do:

# Install additional multimedia plugins
sudo dnf group install Multimedia

# FFMPEG full
sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
sudo dnf install ffmpegthumbnailer

# Hardware codecs with AMD (mesa)
sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld

Flathub

Flatpak is installed by default on Fedora, but you need to Enable Flathub for accessing a wider range of flatpaks. Refer Flatpak and Flathub instructions

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Also refer GNOME-specific setup

Some Fedora quirks

• The Text Editor is gnome-text-editor instead of gedit

• The Picture-in-Picture mode doesn’t work on Firefox in Fedora as Wayland doesn’t support it. Use the PiP on Top GNOME Shell extension to overcome it

• Use two fingers on touchpad for Right-click

• For C++, neither GCC nor Clang comes installed with Fedora. Follow Fedora developer docs to install. Use g++ and clang++ while compiling

  sudo dnf install -y gcc-c++   # or clang
  

• Java comes installed as openjdk-17. Note that it has JRE NOT JDK (java command works but javac isn’t found)

• Python (python3, python) is already installed; but NOT pip. You can install as python3-pip package

• Save AppImages in ~/Applications/ folder

Development variants of packages have -devel suffix for RedHat-based distributions and -dev suffix for Debian-based distributions. Refer this post

Common DNF commands

Fedora recently upgraded dnf to version dnf5 in Fedora 41 release

Enter dnf -h for all available commands

# Install package(s)
sudo dnf install package1 package2

# Update all packages
sudo dnf up
sudo dnf up --refresh --best

# List all installed packages (grep over it to search something specific)
dnf list --installed

# Search over available packages
dnf search jdk

# Get details about a package such as name, version, summary etc.
dnf info java-17-openjdk-fastdebug

# Remove package(s)
sudo dnf remove package1 package2

# Clear DNF cache (any of these two below)
sudo dnf clean all
# Rebuild dnf cache
sudo dnf makecache

DNF repositories

Your repositories are stored in /etc/yum.repos.d/ as .repo files. Run dnf repolist to get list of your repositories

Common Flatpak commands

Enter flatpak -h for all available commands

# Install a flatpak package
flatpak install md.obsidian.Obsidian

# Update all flatpak packages
flatpak update -y

# List all installed flatpak packages
flatpak list

# Search for a flatpak package
flatpak search obsidian

# Get details about a flatpak package
flatpak info md.obsidian.Obsidian

# Remove flatpak package
flatpak uninstall package1

My dnf packages to install

sudo dnf install -y \
wget curl git gcc-c++ clang clang-tools-extra make cmake openssl zip unzip \
gnome-tweaks grub-customizer \
tmux zsh lua lua-devel neovim python3-neovim \
fastfetch btop htop nmap ddcutil dmidecode piper hwinfo info \
fzf bat jq eza ripgrep zoxide \
google-chrome-stable vlc

My Flatpak apps to install

flatpak install \
org.gnome.FontManager \
com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager \
md.obsidian.Obsidian \
com.discordapp.Discord \
com.jgraph.drawio.desktop

Fedora Resources

• DNF command reference
• Fedora Quick Docs
  • Using the DNF software package manager
  • APT-like commands for DNF
• Fedora Developer Docs: Languages & Databases , Tools