This is guide, howto install NVIDIA proprietary drivers (manually using .run installer) on Fedora 43/42/41 and disable Nouveau and NOVA Core driver. This guide works with GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700/800/900/10/20/30/40/50 series cards.
This guide works with UEFI Secure Boot disabled or enabled. If you keep Secure Boot enabled, follow this step-by-step module signing guide:
Fedora Secure Boot: Howto sign NVIDIA kernel modules (DKMS + .run installer)
GeForce RTX 50 series cards works with 595.xx, 590.xx and 580.xx NVIDIA drivers, (RTX 5090 D, RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070) GeForce RTX 40 series cards works with 595.xx, 590.xx and 580.xx NVIDIA drivers, (RTX 4090, RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4070, RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 4060) GeForce RTX 30 series cards works with 595.xx, 590.xx and 580.xx NVIDIA drivers, (RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070, RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti) GeForce RTX 20 series cards works with 595.xx, 590.xx and 580.xx NVIDIA drivers (RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, RTX 2070 Ti, RTX 2070, RTX 2060) GeForce 16 Series cards works still with 595.xx, 590.xx and 580.xx NVIDIA drivers (GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650, GeForce GTX 1630) GeForce GT/GTX 600/700/800/900/10 series cards works with 580.xx, 470.xx, and 390.xx NVIDIA drivers (GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1070, GTX 1060 …) Note GTX 10 series: NVIDIA GTX 10 series cards do not work with 595.xx or 590.xx drivers, use 580.xx / 470.xx. GeForce GT/GTX 400/500 series cards works with 390.xx NVIDIA drivers GeForce GT 8/9/200/300 series cards works with 340.xx NVIDIA drivers VIDEO GUIDE, Howto Install NVIDIA Drivers on Fedora 43 [595.xx, 590.xx, 580.xx]: Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf Why NVIDIA .run installer??? I got following questions in Youtube:
This is guide, howto install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1.0 on Fedora 43/42/41. I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA 595.xx drivers successfully using my Fedora NVIDIA Drivers Install Guide. You will need NVIDIA 595.58.03 (or newer 595.xx) drivers. Fedora 43/42/41 ship GCC 15.x and CUDA 13.1 supports it, but some samples (like deviceQuery) may need a small header patch (see below). As always remember backup important files before doing anything!
This is guide, howto install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1.0 on Debian 13 (Trixie). I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA 595.xx drivers successfully using my Debian 13 NVIDIA Drivers Install Guide. You will need NVIDIA 595.58.03 (or newer 595.xx) drivers. As always remember backup important files before doing anything!
Check video version of guide, howto install NVIDIA CUDA on Debian:
Oracle VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Check video guide (older, VirtualBox 7.0.x on Fedora) using Oracle’s own dnf repo:
Oracle VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf This guide shows howto install VirtualBox 7.2 (currently 7.2.6) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x / 9.x / 8.x, CentOS Stream 10 / 9 / 8, Rocky Linux 10 / 9 / 8, and Alma Linux 10 / 9 / 8 using Oracle’s own yum/dnf repo.
Oracle VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf This guide shows howto install VirtualBox 7.2 (currently 7.2.6) on Debian 13 (Trixie) and Debian 12 (Bookworm) using Oracle’s own apt repo.
1. Install Oracle’s VirtualBox 7.2.6 on Debian 13 / 12 (Oracle repo) This guide works with UEFI Secure Boot disabled or enabled. If you keep Secure Boot enabled, follow this step-by-step module signing guide:
This guide explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 43/42, CentOS Stream, Red Hat (RHEL), Rocky Linux, and Alma Linux versions 10.1, 9.7, and 8.10. Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM/DNF repository.
Check video guide, howto install Google Chrome on Fedora 43/42:
This is guide, howto install VMware Workstation Pro (for personal use or with license key) on Debian 13 and Debian 12.
VIDEO GUIDE, Howto Install VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.3 on Debian 12: Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf 1. Install VMware Workstation Pro on Debian 13/12 1.1 Download VMware Workstation Pro You need broadcom account then goto VMWare Workstation Pro Download Page and download latest version, currently 25H2.
This is guide, howto install PostgreSQL 18.1 / 17.7 / 16.11 database server on Fedora 43/42 and RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma 10/9/8. The guide shows how to install PostgreSQL 18.1 / 17.7 / 16.11 from the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) repositories and also how to install the distro-provided package where appropriate. Use the detection commands in the installation section to list available majors in your enabled repositories.
Check video guide howto install PostgreSQL on Fedora / Rocky (example older recordings):
This is guide, howto install NVIDIA cuDNN 9.6.0 on Fedora 41/40/39. I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA drivers successfully using my Fedora NVIDIA Drivers Install Guide and installed NVIDIA CUDA successfully using Fedora NVIDIA CUDA Install Guide. You will need NVIDIA 565.xx or 560.xx drivers. As always remember backup important files before doing anything!
Check video version of guide, howto install NVIDIA cuDNN on Fedora 41/40/39:
This is guide, howto install VMware Workstation Pro (for personal use or with license key) on Fedora 43/42.
VIDEO GUIDE, Howto Install VMware Workstation Pro on Fedora 43/42: Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf 1. Install VMware Workstation Pro on Fedora 43/42 1.1 Download VMware Workstation Pro You need broadcom account then goto VMWare Workstation Pro Download Page and download latest version (example: VMware-Workstation-Full-25H2-24995812.x86_64.bundle).
This is quick guide howto switch desktop from GNOME 49/48/47 to KDE Plasma 6 and display manager GDM to SDDM. I use here GNOME and KDE as example, same method works from KDE to GNOME or GNOME to XFCE, etc.
Check video guide, howto switch desktop from GNOME 49/48 to KDE Plasma 6 on Fedora 43/42:
This is guide howto build older GCC using newer one in Fedora. Currently GCC 13 on Fedora 42/41/40 using GCC 15/14. This is needed for running NVIDIA CUDA on Fedora 42/41/40.
Check video version of guide, howto build GCC 13 on Fedora 42/41/40 using GCC 15/14:
Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but originally intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is a very useful also in other cases, than only dynamic web applications.
This guide explains howto install Memcached 1.6.32 stable version of distributed memory object caching system on Fedora 41/40/39, CentOS Stream / Red Hat (RHEL) 9/8, Rocky Linux 9.5. Fedora 41/40/39, CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9/8, Rocky Linux 9.5 has Memcached on default repos, so extra repositories is not needed.
This is quick guide howto install and configure miracle-wm.
miracle-wm is a Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
Check video guide, howto install and configure miracle-wm on Fedora 41/40:
This is guide, howto install VMware Workstation Pro (for personal use or with license key) on Linux Mint 22.
Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf 1. Install VMware Workstation Pro on Linux Mint 22 1.1 Download VMware Workstation Pro You need broadcom account then goto VMWare Workstation Pro Download Page and download latest version, currently 17.6.0.
Check video guide, howto install and configure Terminus Console Font on Fedora: Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf This is quick guide howto install Terminus Terminal / Consele font.
This is guide, howto upgrade Fedora 39 to Fedora 40 using DNF. This method works on desktop and server machines. You can also upgrade older Fedora installations (example Fedora 38/37/36) directly to Fedora 40.
I have tested this method on several machines, but if you have problems, please let me know. Always remember backup, before upgrade!
Check video version of guide, howto upgrade to Fedora 40:
This video shows howto upgrade NVIDIA drivers and upgrade whole system. If you are not using manually installed NVIDIA drivers, then you can skip all “NVIDIA USERS:” part on video.
This is quick guide howto change runlevel on GRUB2. Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf Title says runlevel 3 (refer to changing runlevel from 5 to 3), but yes same method of course works, if you want to change runlevel from 3 to 5, from 5 to 1 or from 3 to 1. Whole process is actually add one additional boot parameter. This modification is not permanent, when you boot your system next time, it uses default parameters. This guide works all Linux distributions with GRUB2.
Sometimes it is convenient and necessary to deal with Microsoft Word doc documents directly on Linux command line. MS Word documents handling directly from the Linux command line is possible with Antiword program. Anti-Word is a small, easy to use and lightweight command line program that can convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF, PostScript, and XML.
For example, the following situations Antiword is a very useful tool:
MS Word document can be read from a remote server easily and quickly. Several MS Word documents, texts need to be combined into a single text file. Several MS Word documents have to find some lines of text. MS Word document must be converted to PDF format. Anti Word usage Basic usage, reading Microsoft Word document on console: antiword microsoft_word.doc MS Word document into a text file: antiword microsoft_word.doc > text_file.txt Converting MS Word document to PDF: antiword -a a4 microsoft_word.doc > pdf_file.pdf Note: a4 mean paper size like: a4, letter or legal
