Setting up Fedora

I migrated to Fedora Linux today, because I was searching for a Gnome distro with up-to-date packages that could replace my aging Pop!_OS install. This post just serves as a reminder to myself what I did to get it to my liking.

Gnome tweaks and extensions

To be able to tweak Gnome, install gnome-tweaks and gnome-extensions.

$ sudo dnf install -y gnome-tweaks gnome-extensions-app

Changes I applied: - Caps Lock behaves as an additional Esc

Install Nerd Fonts

In order to get nice icons in terminal and vim.

$ sudo dnf copr enable astrawan/nerd-fonts
$ sudo dnf install nerd-firacode-fonts

Install Microsoft Fonts

# Install supporting packages
$ sudo dnf install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
# Install fonts
$ sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
# Rebuild the font cache with 
$ sudo fc-cache -fv

Source

Enable R Copr repository and install manager

$ sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran
$ sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

R-Studio is in another repo

$ sudo dnf copr enable iucar/rstudio
$ sudo dnf install rstudio-desktop

Entry on CRAN Github repository of cran2copr

Applications

I am not including every application I installed, but those I could not install via dnf or as a flatpak

Zotero

Zotero is a reference manager: https://www.zotero.org

Library needed for Zotero to run

$ sudo dnf install dbus-glib

Download and untar, then mover to /opt folder.

$ sudo mv Zotero_linux-x86_64 /opt/zotero
$ cd /opt/zotero
$ ./zotero

Add launcher

$ ./set_launcher_icon
$ ln -s /opt/zotero/zotero.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/zotero.desktop