Fedora setup script

Ansible playbook that installs most KDE applications and many development tools on Fedora 40 systems, using the KDE Spin as a starting point. It also sets some configuration options useful for development work and system administration.

Notes

• Free useful apps available in a portable format (i.e. AppImage)

  • 7zip console version
  • AnotherRedisDesktopManager
  • Apache Maven
  • DBeaver
  • Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool stand-alone
  • Firefox
  • IntelliJ IDEA community
  • NoSQLBooster4Mongo
  • Postman
  • PyCharm community
  • Spring Boot CLI
  • Tor Browser
  • Ventoy
  • VSCodium

• Repositories that use $releasever need to be checked before performing a system upgrade to see if packages for target release are available.

• Run commands

  • Prerequisites

    sudo dnf install ansible

  • Default

    ansible-playbook -K F40_post_install.yml

  • Non-interactive

    ansible-playbook F40_post_install.yml -e "ansible_become_pass=pwd"

    Might fail with empty sudo password like in the live session. A password can be set for the liveuser with command:

    sudo passwd liveuser

    Or disable sudo password for liveuser with sudo visudo and append:

    liveuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL