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+
+1) Install rocky linux 8.6
+
+
+* upgrade to latest packages
+```
+sudo dnf update
+```
+* enable networking
+
+2) install amdgpu-pro
+
+* Remove nomodeset and rdblacklist=nouveau in grub config in /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub2/grubenv
+
+```
+sudo dnf install http://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.3/rhel/8.10/amdgpu-install-6.3.60300-1.el8.noarch.rpm
+sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=workstation --vulkan=pro --opencl=rocr
+```
+
+* Add user to video and render group:
+```
+sudo usermod -a -G render
+sudo usermod -a -G video
+```
+
+3) Install Davince Resolve Studio 19
+
+* install xcb-util-cursor:
+```
+sudo dnf install epel-release
+sudo dnf install xcb-util-cursor
+```
+
+* download Davinci Resolve Studio 19 by going to [support center](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion), clicking the desired version, and finally `Downlod only`
+* extract and run the installer
+* apply crack (confirmed working with version 19.1.2
+```
+sudo perl -pi -e 's/\x00\x85\xc0\x74\x7b\xe8/\x00\x85\xc0\xEB\x7b\xe8/g' /opt/resolve/bin/resolve
+```
+
+4) Compile awesome wm
+
+Compiling awesome on Rocky Linux 8.10 requires the following dependencies (in order of build):
+* lua
+* lua-markdown
+* lua-lgi
+* lua-filesystem
+* lua-ldoc
+* lua-penlight
+* xapian-xire
+* doxygen (note: this ought to be fc29 version)
+* libxdg-basedir
+* xcb-util
+* xcb-util-wm
+* xcb-util-keysymx
+* xorg-x11-util-macros
+* xcb-util-xrm
+* libxkb
+* xcb-util-image
+* xcb-util-renderutil
+
+To build these, you have to go through various iterations of fetching
+source RPMs from [fedora 28 src repo](https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/source/tree/Packages),
+installing the builddeps and finally rebuilding using `rpbbuild`. Thus,
+for lua, you would:
+```
+wget https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/source/tree/Packages/l/lua-5.3.4-10.fc28.src.rpm
+sudo dnf builddep lua-*.src.rpm --nobest --refresh
+rpmbuild --rebuild lua-.src.rpm
+```
+
+Specific notes:
+* doxygen src rpm should come Fedora 29
+* lua-ldoc and lua-penlight depend on each other, thus you will need to temporarily activate the fc28 repo by adding this in `/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo`
+```
+[fedora]
+name=Fedora 28 - x86_64
+metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-28&arch=x86_64
+enabled=1
+gpgcheck=0
+```
+Make sure to disable it after getting lua-ldoc or lua-penlight built.
+
+After building all of your dependencies, clean-up everything by rolling back to the transaction before you started installing build dependencies. Use `dnf history info <transaction no>` to find that number and then `dnf history rollback <transaction no>`
+
+To facilitate installing the built dependencies, you can use `createrepo` to create a repo in `/home/user/rpmbuild` and pointing a new dnf repo to this folder.
+
+Once everything is rolledback, you can install awesome and *just* it's runtime dependencies, and then refer to  archlinux's [awesome-gnome](https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=awesome-gnome) package to integrate awesome in gnome.
+
+5) Install git-annex standalone