{"id":2,"date":"2016-10-02T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:46:09","slug":"fedora-28","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/fedora-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in August 2018 I took all 3 of my personal computers to Fedora 28. I&#8217;m liking it and here are the things I do to make it work for me.<\/p>\n<h2>Volume Group<\/h2>\n<p>While you&#8217;re doing the install and formatting the disks change the name of the &#8220;volume group&#8221; to just &#8220;vg&#8221;. I do this so when I &#8220;df -h&#8221; I get something short like:<\/p>\n<p><code>\/dev\/mapper\/vg-home 168G 54G 107G 34% \/home<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you let the install pick you&#8217;ll sometimes get a longish &#8220;volume group&#8221; name like &#8220;fedora_localhost&#8211;live&#8221; which is just awful long to me.<span id='easy-footnote-1-2' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/fedora-28\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2' title='Then I complicated the matter and tried to &amp;#8220;fix&amp;#8221; using &amp;#8220;vgrename&amp;#8221; which was a bad idea and my laptop wouldn&amp;#8217;t boot afterwards and I had to do a new install from a flash drive. This pissed me off.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>LaTeX<\/h2>\n<p>I use LaTeX to write and it working correctly is a must. It doesn&#8217;t have to work easily, after 20 plus years of using I expect some challenges.<\/p>\n<p>How I install &#8220;texlive&#8221; is here.<\/p>\n<p>Something (maybe some custom code I use) needed &#8220;perl&#8217;s Env&#8221; so I had to do (as root if it&#8217;s not obvious):<\/p>\n<p><code>dnf install perl-Env<\/code><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a library &#8220;missing&#8221; from Fedora 28 and I had to install &#8220;libnsl&#8221; like (as root if it&#8217;s not obvious):<\/p>\n<p><code>dnf install libnsl<\/code><\/p>\n<p><div style='display:block;width:100%;text-align:left;'><span class='visitors' style=''>7,436<\/span><\/div> for Unique Visitors<\/p>\n<p><div style='display:block;width:100%;text-align:left;'><span class='page-views' style=''>10,192<\/span><\/div> for Page-views<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in August 2018 I took all 3 of my personal computers to Fedora 28. I&#8217;m liking it and here are the things I do to make it work for me. Volume Group While you&#8217;re doing the install and formatting the disks change the name of the &#8220;volume group&#8221; to just &#8220;vg&#8221;. I do this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/fedora-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fedora 28&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaQUmf-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoopchuk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}