Fedora Cinnamon Spin - 1.0 Installation and Setup

Install Fedora

Install Fedora

1. Select Language, Keyboard & Time.
2. Select SSD or NVMe to install to.
   1. (Optional) Encrypt drive with a passphrase (Good for laptops and travel computers.)
3. Set username and password.
4. Run installer and then reboot. (If dual booting, select your Fedora drive in the boot menu.)

Fedora Drivers and Repos

Update Fedora

Before doing anything else after installing a linux distribution, perform a system update to ensure everything is current prior to installing software and drivers.

1. sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade
2. reboot

Install Flathub Repo

https://flathub.org/en/setup/Fedora. This step is necessary if you are not installing the main workstation editions. Since we are using the cinnamon spin, it is recommended.

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

Install RPM Fusion Repos

https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

1. 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
2. sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1

Install NVIDIA Drivers

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

1. sudo dnf update -y
2. sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
3. sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
4. reboot
5. nvidia-smi to verify installation worked and check driver/cuda version.

Software-Specific Requirements (Recommended anyways)

Install Fuse 2

This step is necessary if you want to use DaVinci Resolve Studio on Linux.

1. sudo dnf install fuse-libs

Set SELinux to Permissive

This step is necessary if you want to use Houdini and some server licensing on Fedora and RHEL distros.

1. sudo nano /etc/selinux/config
2. Change the line SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=permissive
3. Ctrl + S, Ctrl + X
4. reboot

Proceed to Fedora Cinnamon - 2.0 Install Software Packages