💻 CentOS 8 Stable

This information is obviously out of date as of 2022

Automation to spin up 5 VMs in a cluster I called the Vorta cluster.. because each of the 4 nodes was named Weyoun

• Default Desktop

  • 768M RAM

  • 8-15G Storage Space

  • sudo dnf remove firefox

  • sudo dnf update

    Necessary

  • sudo dnf install tar bzip2 kernel-devel-$(uname -r) kernel-headers perl gcc make elfutils-libelf-devel

  • Insert Guest Additions & Cancel Auto Install

  • cd /run/medai/$USER/VBox_GAs_x.x.x

  • sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

  • Wired Connection (top right) > Wired Settings > Wired (Gear Icon) > Connect Automatically

  • Reboot

• Headless Node

  • Installation

    • DVD Media

    • 128M Video

    • 1024G RAM

    • 12G Storage

    • Software Selection > Server

    • Network & Host Name > Network On > hostname: weyoun@c8n1 (centos version/node number)

    • Create User > Weyoun > Advanced > wheel, sudo

  • Weyoun Cluster

    • virt-manager

      • vorta@c8n0 - http://192.168.100.162

      • weyoun@c8n1 - http://192.168.100.173

      • weyoun@c8n2 - http://192.168.100.185

      • weyoun@c8n3 - http://192.168.100.181

      • weyoun@c8n4 - http://192.168.100.252

    • Check with router home page..

    • VBox

      • weyoun@c8n0 - http://192.168.254.69

      • weyoun@c8n1 - http://192.168.254.74

      • weyoun@c8n2 - http://192.168.254.81

      • weyoun@c8n3 - http://192.168.254.78

      • weyoun@c8n4 - http://192.168.254.79

• sudo dnf update

• sudo hostnamectl set-hostname your-new-hostname

• sudo systemctl restart systemd-hostnamed

• sudo nmtui-edit

• sudo nmtui-connect

• sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

• sudo dnf install epel-release

  Fedora Epel Repository

• sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools

• sudo dnf install htop tmux neofetch git gtk2-devel gnome-tweaks dconf-editor cmake

• sudo dnf install python3-pip

  Might already be installed

• sudo pip3 install ranger-fm docutils

• sudo dnf install ruby rxvt-unicode libcurl-devel nmap sshpass libXt-devel

• sudo gem install tmuxinator

• sudo rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-{yes,no,force}-bitmaps.conf

  if test -f /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf; then
      sudo ln -s {../conf.avail,/etc/fonts/conf.d}/70-force-bitmaps.conf
  else sudo ln -s {../conf.avail,/etc/fonts/conf.d}/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
  fi
  

• sudo rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig/*

• rm -rf "$HOME/.fontconfig"

• sudo fc-cache

• fc-cache

• dconf-editor find /org/gnome/mutter/, and check center-new-windows

• cd ~/.sources && git clone https://github.com/mptre/yank.git

• sudo make install

• curl -OL http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/download/xsel-1.2.0.tar.gz

• tar -xzf xsel-1.2.0.tar.gz

• cd xsel-1.2.0

• ./configure

• vim Makefile

• Jump to line 98

  Vim: :98

• Jump to end of line

  Vim: SHIFT + A

• -Wno-error=stringop-truncation

  Resolves conflict with new GCC)

• make

• make check

• sudo make install

• https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack/releases (tarball)

• tar -xzf hack.tar.gz

• mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts && cp -f ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/ttf

• fc-cache -f -v

• wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/xarchiver/files/xarchiver-0.5.4.tar.bz2

• ./configure

• sudo make install

• git clone git://git.suckless.org/dwm

• cd dwm

• vim config.def.h

  -- static const char *termcmd[] = { "st", NULL };
  ++ static const char *termcmd[] = { "gnome-terminal", NULL };
  

• sudo make clean install

• cp /usr/share/xsessions /usr/share/xsessions

  • change stuff for dwm (exec /usr/local/bin/dwm, etc.)

• dmenu

  • git clone git://git.suckless.org/dmenu

  • cd dmenu

  • sudo make clean install

• wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxappearance-0.6.3.tar.xz

• tar -xf lxappearance-0.6.3.tar.xz

• cd lxappearance-0.6.3.tar.xz

• ./configure

• sudo make install

• wget http://feh.finalrewind.org/feh-3.3.tar.bz2

• requires: libpng & imlib2

  • wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/enlightenment/imlib2-1.6.1.tar.bz2

  • tar -xf imlib2-1.6.1.tar.bz2

  • cd imlib2-1.6.1

  • ./configure

  • sudo make install

• tar -xf feh-3.3.tar.bz2

• cd feh-3.3

• make; sudo make install

• mkdir ~/Pictures/backgrounds

• cd ~/.Pictures/backgrounds

• wget https://images.alphacoders.com/789/789948.jpg

• Add feh --bg-scale ~/Pictures/backgrounds/789948.jpg to ~/.xinitrc

• git clone https://gitlab.com/arandr/arandr

• cd arandr

• sudo ./setup.py install

• Reset resolution + save

• Add ~/.screenlayout/script.sh to ~/.xinitrc before all GUI stuff