Christopher Juckins

29 September 2020

• Create new VM and install CentOS 8 minimal
  • download iso from https://www.centos.org/download/
  • modify hostname
  • modify disk partitions if needed
• Boot up VM and login
• Use ifconfig to determine its IP address
• Open a terminal window and ssh into it
• set up local account .bashrc and ssh stuff; same for root
• su to root
• mkdir /root/bin
• Copy contents of dnf installer bash script (CentOS 8) to a .bash script
• Run script and pipe output to a log file
• When complete, check for errors and make adjustments
• Reboot

Other modifications

• Try different theme, like "TraditionalOK"
• Disable screensaver
• Install MATE using https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/
  • Other discussion at https://centosfaq.org/centos/centos-8-mate/
• Download password gorilla from https://gorilla.dp100.com/downloads/
• Install PHP 7.4 following https://www.tecmint.com/install-php-on-centos-8/

TO DO

• Get these perl modules
  • perl-HTML-TableExtract.noarch
  • perl-Math-Round
    • used perl-Math-Round-0.06-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm but not tested
• Install X2Go

IGNORE LIST

• Look at GNOME Shell Extensions
  • Dash to Panel
  • Installing extensions
• Figure out NUX repo issues
• Customize GNOME Classic with the links:
  • tips 1
  • tips 2
  • tips 3
  • Try to replicate MATE look & feel in GNOME classic
    • use gnome-tweaks to make adjustments
• System language seems to be British (Colours)