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Fedora 28 Installation Notes

Posted 14. March 2019. 3 min read.

#Fedora 28 Installation Notes

Steps to install and set up Fedora Workstation on my desktop machine.

Preparations

Backup of old machine's filesystem

System configuration

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# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Jun 16 23:18:44 2018
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# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/SSD--M2-root /                      ext4    defaults,noatime   1 1
UUID=ee59ca64-544b-441b-82c6-58b88c43172a /boot ext4    defaults,noatime   1 2
UUID=4AFB-A0F0          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
/dev/mapper/HDD--2-var  /var                    ext4    defaults,noatime   1 2
/dev/mapper/HDD--2-swap swap                    swap    defaults           0 0

/dev/mapper/luks-7affe2a0-aff3-48f0-b0e8-0c166ede95d3 /home    ext4  defaults,noatime,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 2

# space --------------------------------------------------------------

/dev/mapper/HDD--1-backup  /space/backup        ext4    defaults,noatime 1 2

# windows 10 ---------------------------------------------------------

UUID=C880F74780F73A90   /win10/recovery         ntfs    default,ro      0 0
UUID=DA062A4E062A2BC7   /win10/os               ntfs    default,ro      0 0
UUID=53EFC79A0A554590   /win10/data             ntfs    default,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
UUID=30DDD99F63BFA995   /win10/temp             ntfs    default,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# eof
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User account and files

  • Create a user account for family member, match the accounts on my other machines I have. No central user database as I don't want to have to run a server 24/7 to host LDAP, Kerberos, NIS, etc. Add my user to sudoers list.
  • Restore user home directories, be careful to selectively skip the hidden ".something" files. In the past I had problems due to these outdated config files when upgrading to newer version of Gnome desktop, Gnome Evolution an other software packagges
  • Restore all additional user filesystems from the backup files -- Downloads, Documents, Multimedia, etc.

Video Card and GPU

  • Install NVIDIA driver for Linux, choose Beta or Stable version
  • Download CUDA Toolkit 9.2
  • Choose local installer and download the toolkit and all available patches
  • Remove previos installations, if another installation method had been used
  • Run sudo sh cuda_9.2.148_396.37_linux.run and do not agree to install a video driver, only the toolkit
  • Update LDLIBRARY_PATH to point to the CUDA _lib folder
  • Run nvidia-smi to inspect the GPU, then build the examples and run some
  • Install cuDNN 7.1.4 -- NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK, requires free account with NVIDIA Developer Program
  • Install NCCL 2.2.13 -- NVIDIA Collective Communications Library

ML and Deep Learning Frameworks

> conda create -n intel -c intel intelpython3_full
> conda activate intel
> conda install tensorflow-mkl
> pip install intel-tensorflow
> conda install keras -c intel
> conda install jupyter -c intel

  • Build TensorFlow from source

    • Create conda environment with GCC 7.1 and Python 3.6
    • Download and install bazel
    • Kick off the build which is quite long
  • Install PyTorch and Keras

Software Packages

Gnome 3

If using Chrome browser start with GNOME Shell integration, for Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and Ubuntu you can install package named "chrome-gnome-shell". This extension provides integration with GNOME Shell and the corresponding extensions repository https://extensions.gnome.org

To list all installed extensions and to manage them, go to installed extensions.

> dnf install gnome-tweak-tool
> dnf search gtk | grep theme
> dnf search [shell-theme | icon-theme | cursor-theme]

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