diff --git a/lib/vtk/Makefile.lammps.fedora28_vtk7 b/lib/vtk/Makefile.lammps.fedora28_vtk7
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6919dd36b96c37cedd912ba5b0dad1f88dba0ded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/vtk/Makefile.lammps.fedora28_vtk7
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Settings that the LAMMPS build will import when this package library is used
+
+# settings for VTK 7.1.1 on Fedora 28. This seems to work with Fedora versions going back to at least 23 and VTK version 6.x.
+# You need to install vtk-devel and all its dependencies using "dnf install vtk-devel"
+vtk_SYSINC = -I/usr/include/vtk
+vtk_SYSLIB = -lvtkCommonCore -lvtkIOCore -lvtkCommonDataModel -lvtkIOXML -lvtkIOLegacy -lvtkIOParallelXML
+vtk_SYSPATH = -L/usr/lib64/vtk
+