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Fedora Tricks
Home github.com/RheaAyase/fedoratricks
Maintainer Rhea Gustavsson, with three other contributors
Form Bash, run from a terminal — no TUI, no GUI
Distribution RPM from the rhea/fedoratricks COPR
Licence MIT
Version 0.3-1, released 16 July 2026
Builds for Fedora 43, 44, 45 and Rawhide, x86_64 and aarch64

What it is

fedoratricks is a set of Bash modules behind a single command. It came out of the Fedora Discord server — the COPR's own description says the package is "provided by the Fedora Discord server to its members to help with 'support' issues" — and its stated aim is to explain each step while it performs it. It prints every command it runs before running it.

Development started in June 2026 and the three tagged releases landed over six weeks. As of September 2026 the last commit is 16 July, two open issues sit unanswered, and the version number is still 0.x.

What it automates

Four commands are reachable in 0.3: rpmfusion, multimedia, nvidia and logs.

Command What it does Manual equivalent
rpmfusion install Installs the free and nonfree release packages for the release rpm -E %fedora reports, then enables the four repositories explicitly Third-Party Repositories
rpmfusion remove Removes the two release packages. The tainted repository is untouched at both ends
multimedia install Swaps RPM Fusion's FFmpeg in for ffmpeg-free and installs the multimedia group, offering to run the rpmfusion step first if the repositories are missing Multimedia and Codecs
multimedia install --with-optional Adds codec extras, then reads the GPU from lspci and adds the VA-API driver for it
multimedia install --config Intel only. Writes /etc/modprobe.d/intel-fedoratricks.conf with enable_guc and enable_fbc=1, then rebuilds the initramfs
nvidia install Picks a driver branch from the card's marketing name, installs akmod-nvidia and the matching CUDA package, and enables nvidia-persistenced NVIDIA Drivers
nvidia install --config Writes /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-fedoratricks.conf with the power-management and Resizable BAR options, enables the sleep services, and forces the modules into the initramfs
logs Collects journal, dmesg and inxi output for a support request —

Both install commands have a matching remove.

How to run it

The COPR is a personal repository, under the same trust model as anything on Third-Party Repositories.

sudo dnf copr enable rhea/fedoratricks

sudo dnf install fedoratricks

Then, as your normal user:

fedoratricks rpmfusion install

fedoratricks multimedia install --with-optional

fedoratricks nvidia install --config

Running it under sudo fails deliberately — the entry point exits if its effective UID is 0, and escalates individual commands with sudo as it reaches them. The README and the bundled command reference both give their examples as sudo fedoratricks ..., which no longer works.

Every command takes -h, and man fedoratricks is installed with the package. install and remove are the two actions each modifying command accepts; with no action it prints help and exits non-zero.

Trade-offs

It escalates to root. It does not run wholesale as root, which limits the blast radius, and it prints each command before executing it — more visible than a typical curl-to-shell installer. It is still a program with sudo rights making package and kernel-configuration changes on your machine, from a COPR outside Fedora's trust boundary, at version 0.3.

The output goes to a log, not your terminal. Command output is redirected by default to /var/log/fedoratricks, with ~/.local/share/fedoratricks/fedoratricks.log as a fallback. You see the command lines and a task summary; you do not see dnf's transaction list scroll past, which is the moment you would normally catch an unexpected --allowerasing removal. If it has to create the log file, it creates it mode 666 — world-writable.

It makes the decisions for you. The commands it prints are close to what the manual pages here use. What it decides: which packages go in the optional set, whether to suppress weak dependencies, which NVIDIA branch your card wants, what modprobe options are worth setting. If something breaks later — a release upgrade stalling on a swapped package, a driver that loads but will not drive the card — you will be debugging choices you did not make. The printed commands and the log give you a way back to them.

Undo is built in, and partial. Every modifying task registers an undo alongside its action. If a task fails mid-run, the tool rolls back in reverse order, and for dnf steps it captures the transaction ID beforehand and reverts with dnf history undo -y. After a successful run, remove reverses each module: nvidia remove takes out akmod-nvidia* and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*, deletes both config files and rebuilds the initramfs; multimedia remove reinstalls ffmpeg-free with --disablerepo="rpmfusion*"; rpmfusion remove removes the release packages. What does not come back is the state you had before — packages --allowerasing removed on the way in are not reinstalled on the way out, and rpmfusion remove leaves any RPM Fusion package you installed in between still on the system with no repository behind it.

It follows your Fedora release. The release number comes from rpm -E %fedora at runtime, so the same version works across upgrades; the COPR follows Fedora branching and currently builds for 43, 44, 45 and Rawhide. The NVIDIA branch mapping is the exception.

Not for atomic desktops. Silverblue, Kinoite and the other rpm-ostree variants are detected and refused outright. There is no rpm-ostree path.

Sources

Checked in September 2026. The tool's own documentation, authoritative where it and this page disagree:

The behaviour set out here was read out of fedoratricks.sh and the files under commands/ at tag 0.3-1. The tool has not been run end to end on a test machine.