Post-install tips in 2020?

[dfs64]

Hi

I'm in and out of various distros for over a decade. Not an advanced user by the way.

I've been searching for post-install tips for Mageia 7.1. I just installed it last night and at first I didn't get my WiFi to work then randomly going back and forth the Network (during installation) screen suddenly it decided to be able to detect my wifi card. How strange; I'm not complaining but I'm worried things like this might suddenly cause the WiFi to no longer work after a few days/weeks/months, maybe I'm paranoid but we'll see.

Anyway, any post-install tips you'd recommend? The ones on the web are either outdated or too short of a list.

If it helps you to recommend what's necessary let me describe my usage pattern; I'm a light user I guess, I don't really game on this machine, just movies and streaming and some web building (on Windows I used XAMPP).

I've done all updates for now including installing Nvidia driver. Just wondering if there is something else I need to do? It feels so different with Mageia; with other distros there are like so many things to do for post-install but for Mageia, it looks complete and I feel like I don't need to use the CLI at all (I'm on KDE btw). I'm not sure where to look and I plan to use Mageia 7.1 to replace my Windows 10 for a very long time. I've wiped my entire hard disk so, I'm gonna dive in really deep hehe.

[isadora]

Hi and welcome.
Maybe have a look at:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/List_of_applications

[benmc]

Welcome to Mageia, dfs64.

Just wondering if there is something else I need to do? It feels so different with Mageia; with other distros there are like so many things to do for post-install but for Mageia, it looks complete and I feel like I don't need to use the CLI at all .

If you have followed Mageia Welcome, most likely nothing more to do, except maybe update (pretty universal), and add some applications, missing for you.
However, need some CLI work from you.

please attach output of

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lspcidrake -v

so that we can see what your wifi device is, then to check if the driver is correct.

BTW, if Plasma doesnt work out for you (sure, right) it is easy to just add another desktop and change to that via logout / select other desktop / login.
next time you log in, just hover the mouse over the "Plasma" entry and a drop down should happen, with iceWM Session also listed.
its a spare DE, just in case Plasma gets borked somehow.

cheers

[dfs64]

Hi and welcome.
Maybe have a look at:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/List_of_applications

Thanks. I've been looking into that immediately post install. I just wanted to know if there's Mageia specific tweak or your personal fave to-do after installing a fresh Linux distro

[dfs64]

please attach output of

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lspcidrake -v

so that we can see what your wifi device is, then to check if the driver is correct.

Thanks I will check after work later. Everything's perfect, works right out of the box Just some complaints on not being able to use Spotify for example.

I saw somewhere about converting deb to rpm. Does that always work?

[morgano]

Welcome

Just some complaints on not being able to use Spotify for example.

Known problematic app. Search this forum..
Some get it working with Flatpack, some not... https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27126
Myself reverted to using Firefox with https://open.spotify.com/

I saw somewhere about converting deb to rpm. Does that always work?

No. But you may be lucky.

Also see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Ways_to_install_programs

[dfs64]

please attach output of

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lspcidrake -v

so that we can see what your wifi device is, then to check if the driver is correct.cheers

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r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8168 subv:1043 subd:8505) (rev: 09)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:1c18) (rev: b5)
snd_hda_intel   : NVIDIA Corporation|GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO_DEV] (vendor:10de device:0e1b subv:1043 subd:84cb) (rev: a1)
ehci_pci        : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:1c26 subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 05)
ehci_pci        : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:1c2d subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 05)
ie31200_edac    : Intel Corporation|Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:0150 subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 09)
i2c_i801        : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:8086 device:1c22 subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 05)
snd_hda_intel   : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO_DEV] (vendor:8086 device:1c20 subv:1043 subd:8445) (rev: 05)
Card:NVIDIA GeForce 635 series and later: NVIDIA Corporation|GK107 [GeForce GT 740] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:0fc8 subv:1043 subd:84cb) (rev: a1)
mei_me          : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [COMMUNICATION_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:1c3a subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 04)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:1c1a) (rev: b5)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:0151) (rev: 09)
lpc_ich         : Intel Corporation|H61 Express Chipset LPC Controller [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:1c5c subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 05)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:1c10) (rev: b5)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Desktop SATA AHCI Controller [STORAGE_SATA] (vendor:8086 device:1c02 subv:1043 subd:844d) (rev: 05)
iwlwifi         : Intel Corporation|Wireless 7260 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:08b1 subv:8086 subd:4070) (rev: bb)
hub             : Linux 5.7.19-desktop-1.mga7 ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Intel Corp.|Integrated Rate Matching Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:8087 device:0024)
btusb           : Intel Corp.|Unknown [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:8087 device:07dc)
hub             : Linux 5.7.19-desktop-1.mga7 ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Intel Corp.|Integrated Rate Matching Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:8087 device:0024)
usbhid          : COOLER MASTER|CM110 Gaming Mouse [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Mouse] (vendor:2516 device:0119)
usbhid          : SONiX|USB DEVICE [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Keyboard] (vendor:0c45 device:652f)
hid_generic     : SONiX USB DEVICE
hid_generic     : COOLER MASTER CM110 Gaming Mouse
hid_generic     : SONiX USB DEVICE
hid_generic     : COOLER MASTER CM110 Gaming Mouse
hid_generic     : COOLER MASTER CM110 Gaming Mouse

[benmc]

iwlwifi : Intel Corporation|Wireless 7260 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:08b1 subv:8086 subd:4070) (rev: bb)

so wifi is Intel, so unless very new hardware, wifi is supported by driver in kernel

as root:

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ifconfig -a

this will give an overview of the operation of the wifi network

(please obscure your network address from the result)

[aleximon]

Hello!
I tried these instructions with .deb "official" package (spotify-client_1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15_amd64.deb today):
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11003&p=71011#p64907
After install using rpm command, when I tried to run from terminal, libcurl-gnutls.so.4 was missing.
My dirty solution was to create a symbolic link to libcurl.so.4.6.0:

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# ln -s /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.6.0 /usr/lib64/libcurl-gnutls.so.4

And its works!
Then, I moved spotify.desktop to applications path:

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# cp /usr/share/spotify/spotify.desktop /usr/share/applications/

Now, I'm using Spotify without problems
(sorry for my English)
Goodbye!

[morgano]

That is great, thank you for the tip!
No problem about your English.

And welcome to our forum, aleximon.
We have a thread for presenting ourselves, welcome to do that at viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15

[artenaki]

Mageia stores /tmp in RAM by default. If you run out of free space there (like me), you can move /tmp to disk:

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sudo systemctl mask tmp.mount

You can also configure the "Mageia Control Center" to start without a password (for convenience):

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sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/51-draksec.rules
case 'drakconf': return polkit.Result.YES;