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