From b9ae2af8e6fce3d3ce4f0d691ba4bc302f6729ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Boxer <aaron.boxer@collabora.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:05:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] setup.sh: support Fedora

---
 README.md        | 12 +++++++++++-
 scripts/setup.sh | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a571437..020eb11 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ input from microphone and pre-recorded audio files.
 - [Citations](#citations)
 
 ## Installation
-- Install PyAudio
+- Install PortAudio
 ```bash
  bash scripts/setup.sh
 ```
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ input from microphone and pre-recorded audio files.
  pip install whisper-live
 ```
 
+
+- Install 3.12 venv on Fedora
+
+```bash
+sudo dnf install -y python3.12 python3.12-pip
+python3.12 -m venv whisper_env
+source whisper_env/bin/activate
+```
+
+
 ### Setting up NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM for TensorRT backend
 - Please follow [TensorRT_whisper readme](https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive/blob/main/TensorRT_whisper.md) for setup of [NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM) and for building Whisper-TensorRT engine.
 
diff --git a/scripts/setup.sh b/scripts/setup.sh
index 048c563..ec68b35 100644
--- a/scripts/setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /bin/bash
+#!/bin/bash
 
 # Detect the operating system
 if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
@@ -13,8 +13,20 @@ if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
 
     # Install packages using Homebrew
     brew install portaudio wget
+elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
+    # Linux
+    if [[ -f /etc/os-release ]]; then
+        source /etc/os-release
+    fi
+
+    if [[ "${ID:-}" == "fedora" ]]; then
+        echo "Detected Fedora, using dnf for installation"
+        dnf install -y portaudio-devel wget
+    else
+        echo "Detected Linux (assuming Debian/Ubuntu), using apt-get for installation"
+        apt-get install -y portaudio19-dev wget
+    fi
 else
-    # Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)
-    echo "Detected Linux, using apt-get for installation"
-    apt-get install portaudio19-dev wget -y
-fi
+    echo "Unsupported operating system: $OSTYPE"
+    exit 1
+fi
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