Centos 7

Updating Firefox pre-repo updates

Go here and Download the 64bit one https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/?q=English%20%28US%29

Set your workstation username:

UsEr=

move to download dir and extract the files:

cd /home/$UsEr/Downloads
tar -jxvf firefox-[TABCOMPLETE]

Move to lib64 and swap the core out:

cd /usr/lib64
mv /usr/lib64/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox.old
cp -Rp /home/$UsEr/Downloads/firefox /usr/lib64/

Test it:

/usr/bin/firefox --version

Once you confirm it is running the up to date version run the following:

killall -9 firefox

Now you can launch the updated version of firefox. The next time the rpm updates it should update the files on its own still.

Updating Thunderbird pre-repo updates

Go here and Download the 64bit one https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

Set your workstation username:

UsEr=mike

move to download dir and extract the files:

cd /home/$UsEr/Downloads
tar -jxvf thunderbird-[TABCOMPLETE]

Move to lib64 and swap the core out:

cd /usr/lib64
mv /usr/lib64/thunderbird /usr/lib64/thunderbird.old
cp -Rp /home/$UsEr/Downloads/thunderbird /usr/lib64/

Test it:

/usr/bin/thunderbird --version

Once you confirm it is running the up to date version run the following:

killall -9 thunderbird

Now you can launch the updated version of firefox. The next time the rpm updates it should update the files on its own still.

Installing NVIDIA drivers

First run this to get video card version:

[root@vov ~]# lspci | grep -i vga | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 640] (rev a1)

After you know what card you have go to this site and download the driver for your version of linux. Make sure you choose 64bit linux as os.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

When the file is done downloading, move it to the /root folder and fix perms.

For me that command looked like:(you will need to fix the paths in your)

mv /home/mike/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.44.run /root
chown root.root /root/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.44.run
chmod +x /root/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.44.run

Now after this you gotta do some stuff in yum.

yum install epel-release -y
yum install dkms glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++-devel.i686
yum update

Once that has been done, now we need to alter the kernel options.

vim /etc/default/grub

Find this line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=centos_vov/root rd.lvm.lv=centos_vov/swap rhgb quiet"

And change it as follows:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=centos_vov/root rd.lvm.lv=centos_vov/swap rhgb quiet nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau"

Once that edit is made you need to rebuild grub2.

cp /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /root/grub.cfg
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Now you need to reboot the system, to finish disabling nouveau.

reboot

Once the server has rebooted, open a terminal and su to root.

su -

Now you need to switch to runlevel 3 so the gui is disabled.

init 3

Login as root and run the following:

/root/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.44.run

Follow the prompts through it, I recommend that you build the dkms module, and build the 32 bit comparabilities library. When it asks to replace the x-config select yes. Now when your back at the CLI.

Type reboot to finish the process off.

reboot