Mastodon Install on Fedora

# add rpmfusion
dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-31.noarch.rpm

dnf install ImageMagick ffmpeg libpq-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel file git-core g++ protobuf-devel protobuf-compiler pkg-config nodejs gcc autoconf bison openssl-devel glibc make dpkg-dev libyaml-devel readline-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel libffi-devel gdbm-libs gdbm-devel nginx redis postgresql postgresql-contrib certbot python3-certbot-nginx nodejs-yarn libidn2-devel libicu-devel jemalloc-devel

# symlink yarn from nodejs-yarn
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs-yarn /usr/local/bin/yarn

# add mastodon user with locked down shell; --disabled-login is for Debian
useradd -m -d /home/mastodon -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin mastodon

# switch to mastodon user and specify bash shell
sudo -u mastodon bash

# Install rbenv

# init postgresql
sudo postgresql-setup --initdb

# Create PostgreSQL user

# run redis
redis-server

# Set up Mastodon

# “oh, and also? the wholes /sites-available and /sites-enabled is a Debianism. We configure our services manually. We use conf.d!”

# edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to remove the default server block
cp /home/mastodon/live/dist/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/mastodon.conf

# You don’t need to symlink it

# SSL Certificate

# systemd Services

# Starting the services will probably fail, because you are using setenforce 1, right?

# add selinux policies
dnf install policycoreutils-python-utils

# Use audit2allow to build selinux modules/policies