Centos 7
Installing Flash so you can clock in/out in firefox
Do this:
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl killall -9 firefox
Relaunch firefox.
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=mike ### CHANGE TO YOURS
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 ### CHANGE TO YOURS
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