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AlmaLinux 9 - 1.0 Installation and Setup

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Install AlmaLinux 9

  1. Connect to WiFi. (Not required, but allows for latest bug fixes, etc. Dismiss the kwallet notification)
  2. Click on Install to Hard Drive.
  3. Select Keyboard Layout to continue.
  4. Set Time & Date.
  5. Disable KDUMP.
  6. Select Network & Hostname to give your computer a name.
  7. Leave Root Password disabled.
  8. Choose Installation Destination.
    1. Select Target SSD/NVMe/HDD drive.
      1. Be sure you only see ONE CHECKMARK on your desired drive. You can accidentally check more than one drive by clicking on another. You can deselect a drive by clicking on it again.
    2. Encrypting your drive is recommended but not required. (This adds a step at boot to unlock your drive with a passphrase).
    3. Reclaim Drive space
      1. Select top of drive hierarchy.
      2. Select Delete All.
      3. Select Reclaim Space.
  9. User Creation
    1. Add name and username.
    2. Make Administrator.
    3. Set a strong password.
  10. Begin Installation
  11. Once its finished, exit and reboot.

Initial Start

Accept EULA, Set KDE to X11 and Log In

  1. On first reboot, accept the EULA and select Finish Configuration.
  2. On the login screen, BEFORE signing in:
    1. Select KDE X11 desktop in the bottom left corner.
    2. Login
  3. Click through the Welcome dialogue, and then close it.

Update System

sudo dnf upgrade

Install Third Party Repositories

  1. Install RPM Fusion Repo. See RHEL section on their website for more. https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
    1. sudo dnf install -y --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
    2. sudo dnf install -y --nogpgcheck https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %rhel).noarch.rpm
  2. Enable RPM Fusion Repo dnf repolist enabled
  3. Update package manager with sudo dnf update
  4. Install Flatpak https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora (DON’T SKIP, you will need this for Blender on AlmaLinux 9)!
    1. sudo dnf install flatpak
    2. Then follow directions from flatpak to install flathub repo https://flathub.org/en/setup/AlmaLinux
  5. Reboot system reboot

Install NVIDIA Drivers

See https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/nvidia.html for more details.

  1. sudo dnf install almalinux-release-nvidia-driver
  2. sudo dnf install nvidia-open
  3. sudo dnf install nvidia-driver-cuda
  4. reboot
  5. Check if it was successful with nvidia-smi

Failure to install NVIDIA drivers or Buggy Drivers

Occasionally, this method can fail around the time of AlmaLinux updates (e.g. v9.7 -> v9.8). In this case, you might have better luck installing the RPM NVIDIA packages until it is patched by AlmaLinux. (I frequently use the RPM Fusion NVIDIA drivers instead if I encounter any issues with the AlmaLinux NVIDIA version).

  1. sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
  2. reboot
  3. Check success with nvidia-smi

Technically, you can still install them anyways by adding --nobest to the end of the command. This should eliminate the issue for you, but may not install the latest drivers and have a few bugs. 4. sudo dnf install nvidia-open --nobest 5. sudo dnf install nvidia-driver-cuda --nobest

Install Multimedia Drivers

See https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryHowto%5Cb%29 for more in depth instructions.

  1. sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
  2. sudo dnf update @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
  3. sudo dnf install intel-media-driver (Replace with AMD if you have AMD hardware).
  4. sudo dnf install libva-nvidia-driver (Replace with AMD if you have AMD hardware).

Proceed to AlmaLinux 9 - 2.0 Installing Software Packages

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