Install FlatPak & FlatHub

sudo apt install flatpak sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak sudo flatpak remote-add https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install Podman & Podman-Compose

NOTE: use the latest/powerful podman in Fedora 40+ sudo yum install podman podman-compose -OR- NOTE: use recent more powerful version of podman in Ubuntu 24.04+ sudo apt install podman podman-compose

Cleaning up YUM Cache

sudo yum clean packages sudo yum clean metadata sudo yum clean dbcache sudo yum clean all sudo yum makecache

Install Docker – Community Edition

Enterprise Linux sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2 sudo yum-config-manager –add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo sudo yum install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io sudo systemctl enable docker sudo systemctl start docker sudo usermod -aG docker $USER Debian based sudo apt-get -y update sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg … Read more

Install Cockpit, Firewalld & KVM

dnf -y install cockpit firewalld systemctl enable –now cockpit.socket systemctl enable firewalld systemctl start firewalld systemctl status firewalld firewall-cmd –add-service=cockpit –permanent firewall-cmd –reload dnf install -y qemu-kvm virt-manager libvirt virt-install virt-viewer virt-top libguestfs-tools systemctl start libvirtd systemctl enable –now libvirtd systemctl status libvirtd dnf install -y cockpit-machines systemctl restart cockpit systemctl status cockpit

Set Timezone

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York