Fedora 28 : The edb debugger.

Today I tested one debug for assembly language.
I used FASM programming language because is very flexible.
The main goal was to find a good debugger and I try the edb debugger.
If you try to use the Fedora dnf tool then you get an older version of this debugger.

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install edb.x86_64

Because this package is old I try to compile it from source code from github.
Let's see this steps:

[mythcat@desk fasm]$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger.git

Cloning into 'edb-debugger'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 192, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (192/192), done.
...
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install git make qt5-devel gcc gcc-c++ boost-devel cmake capstone-devel
...
[mythcat@desk edb-debugger]$ mkdir build
[mythcat@desk edb-debugger]$ cd build

[mythcat@desk build]$ cmake ..
-- Boost version: 1.66.0
-- Checking for module 'capstone>=3.0.4'
--   Found capstone, version 3.0.5
-- Checking for module 'libgvc>=2.38.0'
--   Package 'libgvc', required by 'virtual:world', not found
-- Checking for module 'double-conversion'
-- Looking for C++ include double-conversion/double-conversion.h
-- Looking for C++ include double-conversion/double-conversion.h - not found
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:56 (message):
  libdouble-conversion header wasn't found.  32- and 64-bit floating-point
  values will be showed with max_digits10 digits of precision instead of
  shortest representation.


-- Checking for module 'gdtoa-desktop'
--   Package 'gdtoa-desktop', required by 'virtual:world', not found
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:113 (message):
  gdtoa-desktop package wasn't found.  80-bit floating-point values will be
  showed with max_digits10 digits of precision instead of shortest
  representation.


-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/mythcat/fasm/edb-debugger/build

[mythcat@desk build]$ make
Scanning dependencies of target edb_autogen
...

You can see the executable file named edb into the build folder.
Just run it and the debugger starts.
Into the next image you can see a simple executable run into this debugger:

Fedora 28 : Alien, Steam and Fedora distro.

Today I tried an incurs in converting deb files into packages rpm for Fedora 28.
As you well know, the alien utility is used to solve this problem.
The Debian package I tried to convert is the Steam gaming utility.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ su
Password: 
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf search alien
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:59 ago on Mon 22 Oct 2018 08:15:33 PM EEST.
========================= Name Exactly Matched: alien ==========================
alien.noarch : Converter between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and Slackware tgz
             : file formats
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install alien.noarch 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:58 ago on Mon 22 Oct 2018 08:15:33 PM EEST.

...
Complete!

[root@desk mythcat]# cd Downloads/

[root@desk Downloads]# alien --scripts -r steam_latest.deb
steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch.rpm generated

The next step is the install process:

[root@desk Downloads]# dnf install steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:36 ago on Mon 22 Oct 2018 08:15:33 PM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package              Arch         Version             Repository          Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 steam-launcher       noarch       1.0.0.56-2          @commandline       2.8 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 2.8 M
Installed size: 2.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Error: Transaction check error:
  file / from install of steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.8-2.fc28.x86_64
  file /lib from install of steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.8-2.fc28.x86_64
  file /usr/bin from install of steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.8-2.fc28.x86_64
  file /usr/lib from install of steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.8-2.fc28.x86_64

Error Summary
-------------

The problem comes from the conversion and I try to see I have the correct packages into my Fedora 28 distro.

[root@desk Downloads]# dnf search filesystem-3.8-2.fc28.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:14 ago on Mon 22 Oct 2018 08:15:33 PM EEST.
No matches found.
[root@desk Downloads]# dnf search filesystem
Last metadata expiration check: 0:20:17 ago on Mon 22 Oct 2018 08:15:33 PM EEST.
======================= Name Exactly Matched: filesystem =======================
filesystem.x86_64 : The basic directory layout for a Linux system
====================== Name & Summary Matched: filesystem ======================
[root@desk Downloads]# dnf install filesystem.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:22:13 ago on Mon 22 Oct 2018 08:15:33 PM EEST.
Package filesystem-3.8-2.fc28.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

I try again to see is something new , but I got the same error.

[root@desk Downloads]# dnf install steam-launcher-1.0.0.56-2.noarch.rpm

In conclusion: Fedora distro solves a number of shortcomings in the field of package management, but the efforts of the development team do not resolve to cover user requirements. However, the alien utility remains a very important step in the development process that should be updated and optimized to implement new software. I would add here my attempts to create Fedora packets with software that works normally on this distro (Blender 3D - version 2.8).
Let's hope that the Fedora development team will resolve these issues until the next version of this distro.

Fedora 28 : Fix XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO .

It is a common kernel error created under certain predefined conditions.
...kernel: XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO...

# xfs_repair -L /dev/mapper/fedora-root
# xfs_repair -L /dev/mapper/fedora-swap
# reboot

This will fix this error.

Fedora 28 : Testing Blender 2.80 .

I tested the new Blender 2.80 alpha 2 version and is working well.
You can start to download it from the official download page.
The next step: unarchive the tar.bz file and run the blender from the newly created folder.
I try to create a package but seems the tool not working with the .spec file.
This is a screenshot with this Blender 3D software running in my Fedora 28.

Fedora 28 : Strife another golang game framework.

Today I tested this 2D game framework named Strife.
You can read more about this from the official website.
The development team tells us:
  "This a work in progress. It provides a very minimal toolset for rendering shapes, images, and text as well as capturing user input."
This game framework uses SDL2 libraries.
Strife is open source and available under the MIT license.
Let's start with installation into Fedora 28 distro.

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install SDL2-devel.x86_64
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install SDL2_ttf-devel.x86_64 
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install SDL2_image-devel.x86_64 
[mythcat@desk ~]$ go get github.com/felixangell/strife
[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/felixangell/strife

I test one example from installation folder with particles:

[mythcat@desk strife]$ cd example/particles
[mythcat@desk particles]$ go run particles.go
2018/10/04 22:13:18 initializing window  1280 x 720
2018/10/04 22:13:18 dpi, default_dpi =  0 72
2018/10/04 22:13:21 Loading font  /usr/share/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf
2018/10/04 22:13:21 Failed to load font at '/usr/share/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf'
 ' try setting a font yourself with strife.LoadFont
resize to  1280 x 960
resize to  1280 x 960
resize to  1280 x 720
resize to  1280 x 720
closing window!

This is result of the running example:

Fedora 28 : Web development with Nikola and python.

The development team comes with this info about Nikola:
Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn Jupyter Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of do it (which is rebuilding only what has been changed).
I tested today with Fedora 28 and python version 2.7.15.
If you take a look at Nikola handbook, you will see all the features, options and settings you need for web development.
The installation is very simple:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ pip install Nikola --user
Collecting Nikola
...
Installing collected packages: Nikola
Successfully installed Nikola-7.8.15

[mythcat@desk ~]$ nikola init mysite
[2018-10-01T14:09:02Z] WARNING: Nikola: In order to USE_BUNDLES, you must install the "webassets" Python package.
[2018-10-01T14:09:02Z] WARNING: bundles: Setting USE_BUNDLES to False.
Creating Nikola Site
====================

This is Nikola v7.8.15.  We will now ask you a few easy questions about your new site.
If you do not want to answer and want to go with the defaults instead, simply restart with the `-q` parameter.
--- Questions about the site ---
Site title [My Nikola Site]: my_website
Site author [Nikola Tesla]: catafest
Site author's e-mail [n.tesla@example.com]: catafest@yahoo.com
Site description [This is a demo site for Nikola.]: website with Nikola static sit
Site URL [https://example.com/]: http://example.com
    The URL does not end in '/' -- adding it.
Enable pretty URLs (/page/ instead of /page.html) that don't need web server configuration? [Y/n] y
--- Questions about languages and locales ---
We will now ask you to provide the list of languages you want to use.
Please list all the desired languages, comma-separated, using ISO 639-1 codes.  
The first language will be used as the default.
Type '?' (a question mark, sans quotes) to list available languages.
Language(s) to use [en]: en

Please choose the correct time zone for your blog. Nikola uses the tz database.
You can find your time zone here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

Time zone [Europe/Bucharest]: 
    Current time in Europe/Bucharest: 17:12:36
Use this time zone? [Y/n] y
--- Questions about comments ---
You can configure comments now.  Type '?' (a question mark, sans quotes) to list available comment systems.  
If you do not want any comments, just leave the field blank.
Comment system: 

That's it, Nikola is now configured.  Make sure to edit conf.py to your liking.
If you are looking for themes and addons, check out https://themes.getnikola.com/ and https://plugins.getnikola.com/.
Have fun!
[2018-10-01T14:12:54Z] INFO: init: Created empty site at mysite.

Now you can build and start the server with this command:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd mysite/
[mythcat@desk mysite]$ ls
cache  conf.py  conf.pyc  files  galleries  listings  pages  posts
[mythcat@desk mysite]$ nikola build
[2018-10-01T14:14:51Z] WARNING: Nikola: In order to USE_BUNDLES, you must install the "webassets" Python package.
[2018-10-01T14:14:51Z] WARNING: bundles: Setting USE_BUNDLES to False.
Scanning posts........done!
.  render_posts:timeline_changes
...
[2018-10-01T14:14:52Z] WARNING: Nikola: Python 2 is old and busted. Python 3 is the new hotness.
[2018-10-01T14:14:52Z] WARNING: Nikola: Nikola is going to deprecate Python 2 support in 2017. You already have Python 3
available in your system. Why not switch?

Please check http://bit.ly/1FKEsiX for details.

.  sitemap:output/sitemap.xml
.  sitemap:output/sitemapindex.xml
.  robots_file:output/robots.txt
[mythcat@desk mysite]$ nikola serve -b 

Let's see the result of this running server:
To add a post just use this command:

[mythcat@desk mysite]$ nikola new_post
[2018-10-01T14:16:09Z] WARNING: Nikola: In order to USE_BUNDLES, you must install the "webassets" Python package.
[2018-10-01T14:16:09Z] WARNING: bundles: Setting USE_BUNDLES to False.
Creating New Post
-----------------

Title: New post
Scanning posts........done!
[2018-10-01T14:16:24Z] INFO: new_post: Your post's text is at: posts/new-post.rst

[mythcat@desk mysite]$ nikola build
[2018-10-01T14:16:34Z] WARNING: Nikola: In order to USE_BUNDLES, you must install the "webassets" Python package.
[2018-10-01T14:16:34Z] WARNING: bundles: Setting USE_BUNDLES to False.
Scanning posts........done!
.  render_posts:timeline_changes

The result will be this:

There are a few themes for Nikola available at the Themes Index.

[mythcat@desk mysite]$ nikola theme -l
[2018-10-01T14:21:20Z] WARNING: Nikola: In order to USE_BUNDLES, you must install the "webassets" Python package.
[2018-10-01T14:21:20Z] WARNING: bundles: Setting USE_BUNDLES to False.
Available Themes:
-----------------
blogtxt
bnw
bootblog
bootblog-jinja
bootstrap
bootstrap-jinja
bootstrap3-gradients
bootstrap3-gradients-jinja
cadair
canterville
carpet
detox
foundation6
hack
hemingway
hpstr
hyde
jidn
lanyon
libretto
lotabout
material-theme
maupassant
mdl
monospace
oldfashioned
planetoid
readable
reveal
reveal-jinja
slidemenu
srcco.de
yesplease
zen
zen-forkawesome
zen-ipython
zen-jinja