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Monday, December 16, 2024

Fedora 41 : The cirq python package only with Python 3.12.8.

Today I install the quil python package on Fedora 41, but with an older version of python :
Python 3.12.8 (main, Dec  6 2024, 00:00:00) [GCC 14.2.1 20240912 (Red Hat 14.2.1-3)] on linux
mythcat@localhost:~$ python3.12 -m pip install quil --user
First, install the python version then install the pip tool:
mythcat@localhost:~$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.12 -
...
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-24.3.1
Next, install with the pip version:
mythcat@localhost:~$ python3.12 -m pip install quil --user
Collecting quil

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Fedora 41 : OpenCV example with PyQt6.

Today I tested another source code with opencv, numpy, PyQt6 python packages.
I install opencv python package with dnf5 tool:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 install  python3-opencv.x86_64
The source code let you to open, change a image and save using sliders and a reset option.
This is the source code:
import sys
import cv2
import numpy as np
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QWidget, QVBoxLayout, QLabel, QSlider, QFileDialog, QPushButton, QHBoxLayout
from PyQt6.QtGui import QImage, QPixmap
from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt, pyqtSlot

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.setWindowTitle("Real-Time Color Selection")
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 1200, 800)

        # Create central widget and main layout
        central_widget = QWidget()
        self.setCentralWidget(central_widget)
        main_layout = QVBoxLayout(central_widget)

        # Create image label
        self.image_label = QLabel()
        main_layout.addWidget(self.image_label)

        # Initialize sliders
        self.lower_h = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.lower_s = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.lower_v = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.upper_h = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.upper_s = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
        self.upper_v = QSlider(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)

        # Set slider ranges
        for slider in [self.lower_h, self.upper_h]:
            slider.setRange(0, 179)
        for slider in [self.lower_s, self.lower_v, self.upper_s, self.upper_v]:
            slider.setRange(0, 255)

        # Set initial slider values
        self.lower_h.setValue(50)
        self.lower_s.setValue(100)
        self.lower_v.setValue(50)
        self.upper_h.setValue(130)
        self.upper_s.setValue(255)
        self.upper_v.setValue(255)

        # Connect sliders to update function
        self.lower_h.valueChanged.connect(self.update_hsv_range)
        self.lower_s.valueChanged.connect(self.update_hsv_range)
        self.lower_v.valueChanged.connect(self.update_hsv_range)
        self.upper_h.valueChanged.connect(self.update_hsv_range)
        self.upper_s.valueChanged.connect(self.update_hsv_range)
        self.upper_v.valueChanged.connect(self.update_hsv_range)

        # Create slider layouts with labels
        sliders_layout = QVBoxLayout()
        
        # Add slider pairs with labels
        slider_pairs = [
            ("Lower Hue", self.lower_h),
            ("Lower Saturation", self.lower_s),
            ("Lower Value", self.lower_v),
            ("Upper Hue", self.upper_h),
            ("Upper Saturation", self.upper_s),
            ("Upper Value", self.upper_v)
        ]

        for label_text, slider in slider_pairs:
            row_layout = QHBoxLayout()
            label = QLabel(label_text)
            label.setMinimumWidth(120)
            row_layout.addWidget(label)
            row_layout.addWidget(slider)
            sliders_layout.addLayout(row_layout)

        main_layout.addLayout(sliders_layout)

        # Add buttons
        button_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        
        self.reset_button = QPushButton("Reset Values")
        self.reset_button.clicked.connect(self.reset_values)
        button_layout.addWidget(self.reset_button)

        self.open_image_button = QPushButton("Open Image")
        self.open_image_button.clicked.connect(self.open_image)
        button_layout.addWidget(self.open_image_button)

        self.save_button = QPushButton("Save Image")
        self.save_button.clicked.connect(self.save_image)
        button_layout.addWidget(self.save_button)
        main_layout.addLayout(button_layout)

        # Process initial image
        self.process_image()

    def process_image(self):
        image_bgr = cv2.imread("image.png")
        if image_bgr is None:
            image_bgr = cv2.imread("default_image.png")
        
        self.image_bgr = image_bgr
        self.image_hsv = cv2.cvtColor(image_bgr, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)

        # Create initial mask using current slider values
        lower_values = np.array([self.lower_h.value(), self.lower_s.value(), self.lower_v.value()])
        upper_values = np.array([self.upper_h.value(), self.upper_s.value(), self.upper_v.value()])
        
        mask_test = cv2.inRange(self.image_hsv, lower_values, upper_values)
        image_bgr_masked = cv2.bitwise_and(image_bgr, image_bgr, mask=mask_test)
        self.image_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(image_bgr_masked, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
        self.update_image()

    def update_image(self):
        height, width, channel = self.image_rgb.shape
        bytes_per_line = width * channel
        q_image = QImage(self.image_rgb.data, width, height, bytes_per_line, QImage.Format.Format_RGB888)
        pixmap = QPixmap.fromImage(q_image)
        self.image_label.setPixmap(pixmap.scaled(700, 500, Qt.AspectRatioMode.KeepAspectRatio))

    def update_hsv_range(self):
        lower_values = np.array([self.lower_h.value(), self.lower_s.value(), self.lower_v.value()])
        upper_values = np.array([self.upper_h.value(), self.upper_s.value(), self.upper_v.value()])
        mask_test = cv2.inRange(self.image_hsv, lower_values, upper_values)
        image_bgr_masked = cv2.bitwise_and(self.image_bgr, self.image_bgr, mask=mask_test)
        self.image_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(image_bgr_masked, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
        self.update_image()

    def reset_values(self):
        self.lower_h.setValue(50)
        self.lower_s.setValue(100)
        self.lower_v.setValue(50)
        self.upper_h.setValue(130)
        self.upper_s.setValue(255)
        self.upper_v.setValue(255)

    def open_image(self):
        filename, _ = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, "Select Image File", "", "Image Files (*.png *.jpg *.jpeg)")
        if filename:
            self.image_bgr = cv2.imread(filename)
            if self.image_bgr is not None:
                self.image_hsv = cv2.cvtColor(self.image_bgr, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
                self.update_hsv_range()  # This will apply current filter and update display

    def save_image(self):
        filename, _ = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(self, "Save Image", "", "PNG Files (*.png);;JPEG Files (*.jpg)")
        if filename:
            # Make sure filename has an extension
            if not filename.endswith(('.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg')):
                filename += '.png'
            # Convert and save
            output_image = cv2.cvtColor(self.image_rgb, cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
            cv2.imwrite(filename, output_image)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = MainWindow()
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec())

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Fedora 41 : The cirq python package cannot be install - build errors

Today, I tried to use cirq python package on Fedora 41. This need the python version 3.12.
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf install python3.12.x86_6c
I got some errors because ask me to install the rust:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
info: downloading installer

Welcome to Rust!

This will download and install the official compiler for the Rust
programming language, and its package manager, Cargo.

Rustup metadata and toolchains will be installed into the Rustup
home directory, located at:
...
Rust is installed now. Great!

To get started you may need to restart your current shell.
This would reload your PATH environment variable to include
Cargo's bin directory ($HOME/.cargo/bin).

To configure your current shell, you need to source
the corresponding env file under $HOME/.cargo.

This is usually done by running one of the following (note the leading DOT):
. "$HOME/.cargo/env"            # For sh/bash/zsh/ash/dash/pdksh
source "$HOME/.cargo/env.fish"  # For fish
These are the next steps I used:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# pip install --upgrade pip
...
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# pip install maturin
...
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# pip install cirq
...
Collecting cirq
  Using cached cirq-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.4 kB)
...
        cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PYO3_USE_ABI3_FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY
      
        --- stderr
        error: the configured Python interpreter version (3.13) is newer than PyO3's maximum supported version (3.12)
        = help: please check if an updated version of PyO3 is available. Current version: 0.20.3
        = help: set PYO3_USE_ABI3_FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY=1 to suppress this check and build anyway using the stable ABI
      💥 maturin failed
        Caused by: Failed to build a native library through cargo
        Caused by: Cargo build finished with "exit status: 101": `env -u CARGO PYO3_ENVIRONMENT_SIGNATURE="cpython-3.13-64bit" PYO3_PYTHON="/usr/bin/python3" PYTHON_SYS_EXECUTABLE="/usr/bin/python3" "cargo" "rustc" "--features" "pyo3/extension-module" "--message-format" "json-render-diagnostics" "--manifest-path" "/tmp/pip-install-v0zuc831/quil_ebc006157dbd433dbc0890811ee80748/quil-py/Cargo.toml" "--release" "--lib" "--crate-type" "cdylib"`
      Error: command ['maturin', 'pep517', 'build-wheel', '-i', '/usr/bin/python3', '--compatibility', 'off'] returned non-zero exit status 1
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for quil
Failed to build quil
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (quil)
Not working ...

Monday, November 25, 2024

Fedora 41 : assembly fasm with cat command and qemu test.

I tested the basic direct binary concatenation where the second file is appended to the end of the first file, preserving all bytes exactly as they are without any linking metadata or relocations with the cat command.
Let's see how can do this.
You need to create two files: kernel.fasm and kernel2.fasm.
First will like this:
org 7C00h

; First stage bootloader
start:
    mov [bootdrive], dl
    mov ax, 0x2000  ; Load kernel at 0x2000:0
    mov es, ax
    xor bx, bx      ; ES:BX = buffer
    
    mov ah, 02h     ; Read sectors
    mov al, 6       ; Number of sectors to read
    mov ch, 0       ; Cylinder 0
    mov cl, 2       ; Start from sector 2
    mov dh, 0       ; Head 0
    mov dl, [bootdrive]
    int 13h
    
    jmp 0x2000:0    ; Jump to second stage

bootdrive db 0
times 510-($-$$) db 0
dw 0xAA55
The second one named kernel2.fasm will come with new features:
org 0

COLS equ 80
ROWS equ 25
VIDEO_MEM equ 0xB800

; Box drawing characters
BOX_DR    equ 201  ; ╔
BOX_HL    equ 205  ; ═
BOX_DL    equ 187  ; ╗
BOX_VL    equ 186  ; ║
BOX_UR    equ 200  ; ╚
BOX_UL    equ 188  ; ╝
BOX_BLOCK equ 219  ; █
...
Use fasm and cat commands to create the bin files and the result file for qemu:
mythcat@localhost:~/fasm$ ./fasm.x64 kernel.fasm kernel.bin
flat assembler  version 1.73.32  (16384 kilobytes memory, x64)
2 passes, 512 bytes.
mythcat@localhost:~/fasm$ ./fasm.x64 kernel2.fasm kernel2.bin
flat assembler  version 1.73.32  (16384 kilobytes memory, x64)
2 passes, 132 bytes.
mythcat@localhost:~/fasm$ cat kernel.bin kernel2.bin > os.img
The last step is to run qemu-system-i386 to test the result
mythcat@localhost:~/fasm$ qemu-system-i386 -fda os.img
The result is this:

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Fedora 41 : Error gio default application for image.

I run today an old python script in my Fedora 41 to create an image and the result after running was:
mythcat@localhost:~$ python test_001.py 
gio: file:///tmp/tmpwy1k4wyo.PNG: Failed to find default application for content type ‘image/png’
This can be fixed with an default application for images like feh:
$ sudo dnf5 install feh

Fedora 41 : remove package lead to unexpected results.

Today I saw the mutter package from Fedora distro come with a new update.
I don't use this package, ... is a mess in my oppinion.
But I found this output when I tried to remove
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 remove mutter 
Package                          Arch   Version                 Reposit      Size
Removing:
 mutter                          x86_64 47.1-3.fc41             updates  12.5 MiB
Removing dependent packages:
 gdm                             x86_64 1:47.0-8.fc41           updates   5.3 MiB
 gnome-shell                     x86_64 47.1-1.fc41             updates  13.8 MiB
Removing unused dependencies:
 accountsservice                 x86_64 23.13.9-5.fc41          fedora  379.5 KiB
 accountsservice-libs            x86_64 23.13.9-5.fc41          fedora  212.3 KiB
 bluez-obexd                     x86_64 5.79-1.fc41             updates 345.1 KiB
 bolt                            x86_64 0.9.8-3.fc41            fedora  503.3 KiB
 boost-thread                    x86_64 1.83.0-8.fc41           fedora  136.8 KiB
 color-filesystem                noarch 1-34.fc41               fedora  151.0   B
 colord                          x86_64 1.4.7-5.fc41            fedora    1.7 MiB
 colord-gtk4                     x86_64 0.3.1-2.fc41            fedora   35.6 KiB
 composefs-libs                  x86_64 1.0.6-1.fc41            fedora  166.3 KiB
 cups-pk-helper                  x86_64 0.2.7-8.fc41            fedora  379.0 KiB
 dbus-daemon                     x86_64 1:1.14.10-4.fc41        fedora  553.2 KiB
 evolution-data-server           x86_64 3.54.1-1.fc41           updates   8.8 MiB
 evolution-data-server-langpacks noarch 3.54.1-1.fc41           updates   8.8 MiB
 flatpak-libs                    x86_64 1.15.10-1.fc41          fedora    1.0 MiB
 ...
 
Is this ok [y/N]: N
 ... 
If I used this command the gdm and gnome-shell is gone:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 remove --noautoremove mutter 
Package                        Arch   Version                   Repository        Size
Removing:
 mutter                        x86_64 47.1-3.fc41               updates       12.5 MiB
Removing dependent packages:
 gdm                           x86_64 1:47.0-8.fc41             updates        5.3 MiB
 gnome-session-wayland-session x86_64 47.0.1-1.fc41             fedora        15.9 KiB
 gnome-shell                   x86_64 47.1-1.fc41               updates       13.8 MiB

Transaction Summary:
 Removing:           4 packages
 
Is this ok [y/N]: N
...
I tried with the --noautoremove, and --exclude args and not result:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 remove --noautoremove --exclude=gnome-shell,gdm mutter
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: installed package gnome-shell-47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 requires libmutter-15.so.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package gnome-shell-47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 requires libmutter-clutter-15.so.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package gnome-shell-47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 requires libmutter-cogl-15.so.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package gnome-shell-47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 requires libmutter-mtk-15.so.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package gnome-shell-47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 requires mutter(x86-64) >= 47.0, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
The solution is old rpm tool:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# rpm -e --nodeps mutter 
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 remove mutter
No packages to remove for argument: mutter

Nothing to do.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Fedora 41 : generated shapes with python !

Today I created this source code in python that generates eight random convex polygons. The idea was to create sprites for a 2D game: snowballs, boulders, or similar objects ... Obviously I also used Sonet 3.5 artificial intelligence. You can find the source code on the pagure account in fedora.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
SVG Polygon Generator

This script generates multiple deformed polygonal shapes and saves them as separate SVG files.
Each polygon maintains convex properties while having controlled random deformations.

Features:
    - Generates 8 unique polygonal shapes
    - Controls deformation through radial and angular factors
    - Maintains convex properties
    - Exports each shape to a separate SVG file
    - Uses random colors for visual distinction

Usage:
    python generate_svgs.py

Output:
    Creates 8 SVG files named 'polygon_1.svg' through 'polygon_8.svg'
"""

from lxml import etree
import random
import math
from pathlib import Path


def create_svg_root():
    """Create and return a base SVG root element with standard attributes."""
    root = etree.Element("svg")
    root.set("width", "500")
    root.set("height", "500")
    root.set("xmlns", "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
    return root


def calculate_points(center_x: float, center_y: float, radius: float, 
                    num_sides: int, deform_factor: float) -> list:
    """
    Calculate polygon points with controlled deformation.

    Args:
        center_x: X coordinate of polygon center
        center_y: Y coordinate of polygon center
        radius: Base radius of the polygon
        num_sides: Number of polygon sides
        deform_factor: Maximum allowed deformation factor

    Returns:
        List of tuples containing (x, y) coordinates
    """
    points = []
    angle_step = 2 * math.pi / num_sides
    
    for i in range(num_sides):
        angle = i * angle_step
        radial_deform = random.uniform(-deform_factor, deform_factor)
        angular_deform = random.uniform(-deform_factor/2, deform_factor/2)
        
        modified_angle = angle + angular_deform
        modified_radius = radius * (1 + radial_deform)
        
        x = center_x + modified_radius * math.cos(modified_angle)
        y = center_y + modified_radius * math.sin(modified_angle)
        points.append((x, y))
    
    return points


def generate_deformed_shapes():
    """Generate multiple deformed polygons and save them to separate SVG files."""
    # Base parameters
    num_sides = 8
    center_x = 250
    center_y = 250
    base_radius = 150
    max_deformation = 0.15
    output_dir = Path("generated_polygons")
    
    # Create output directory if it doesn't exist
    output_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)

    for i in range(8):
        root = create_svg_root()
        points = calculate_points(center_x, center_y, base_radius, 
                                num_sides, max_deformation)
        
        path = etree.SubElement(root, "path")
        path_data = f"M {points[0][0]} {points[0][1]}"
        path_data += "".join(f" L {p[0]} {p[1]}" for p in points[1:])
        path_data += " Z"
        
        path.set("d", path_data)
        path.set("fill", "none")
        path.set("stroke", f"#{random.randint(0, 16777215):06X}")
        path.set("stroke-width", "2")
        path.set("opacity", "0.7")

        # Save individual SVG file
        output_file = output_dir / f"polygon_{i+1}.svg"
        tree = etree.ElementTree(root)
        tree.write(str(output_file), pretty_print=True, 
                  xml_declaration=True, encoding='utf-8')
    
    print(f"Generated {num_sides} polygons in {output_dir}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    generate_deformed_shapes()

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Fedora 41 : Bookworm - open-source eBook reader !

Bookworm is an open-source eBook reader with an easy and simple layout supporting different file formats like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr and cbz. See the official webpage.
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 search bookworm
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
 bookworm.x86_64: Simple, focused eBook reader
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 install bookworm.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                 Arch   Version                      Repository      Size
Installing:
 bookworm               x86_64 1.1.3-0.13.20200414git.c7c36 fedora       3.6 MiB
Installing dependencies:
 granite                x86_64 6.2.0-9.fc41                 fedora     949.2 KiB
 javascriptcoregtk4.0   x86_64 2.46.3-1.fc41                updates     28.3 MiB
 webkit2gtk4.0          x86_64 2.46.3-1.fc41                updates     75.4 MiB

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:         4 packages
...
[6/6] Installing bookworm-0:1.1.3-0.13. 100% | 430.8 KiB/s |   3.7 MiB |  00m09s
Complete!ng trigger-install scriptlet: hicolor-icon-theme-0:0.17-19.fc41.noarch
The last step, search this on gnome environmet and you will find this application.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Fedora 41 : use pagure tool with ssh key ...

Pagure is a light-weight git-centered forge based on pygit2.
The basic tool can be found on this fedora package, the pagure has more features.
Because I used only like a repo I install with DNF5 tool the basic cli:
# dnf5 install pagure-cli.x86_64
I created a folder then I used easy like git tool for each project I have under basic fedora account:
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora$ git clone https://pagure.io/mythcat
Cloning into 'mythcat'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1567, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1567/1567), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1467/1467), done.
remote: Total 1567 (delta 76), reused 1496 (delta 63), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1567/1567), 5.82 MiB | 2.26 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (76/76), done.
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora$ git clone https://pagure.io/radio-online-catafest
Cloning into 'radio-online-catafest'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 8, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), 6.01 KiB | 267.00 KiB/s, done.
These are git repos for folders: mythcat and radio-online-catafest, any git command can be run on these folders.
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora$ cd mythcat 
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ nano test.txt
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file> ..." to include in what will be committed)
	test.txt

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git add .
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git commit -am "test with a file"
[main 2c9fa14] test with a file
 Committer: Catalin George Festila <mythcat localhost.localdomain="">
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly. Run the
following command and follow the instructions in your editor to edit
your configuration file:

    git config --global --edit

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 test.txt
 mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$  git config --global --edit
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git commit --amend --reset-author
[main 308a2c9] test with a file
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 test.txt
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git remote set-url origin git@pagure.io:mythcat.git
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git remote -v
origin	git@pagure.io:mythcat.git (fetch)
origin	git@pagure.io:mythcat.git (push)
You need to use ssh-keygen to have a ssh key for pagure on Fedora linux then remove the old key and, add the ssh key to Fedora pagure account, then I push the file:
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/mypagure
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/mypagure
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ systemctl restart sshd.service mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/mythcat$ git push 
For my repo radio-online-catafest the git remote command is this:
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/radio-online-catafest$ git remote set-url origin git@pagure.io:radio-online-catafest.git
mythcat@localhost:~/pagure_fedora/radio-online-catafest$ git push 
Everything up-to-date

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Fedora 41 : timeshift tool for backup.

... one old tool for backup was rsync ...
Now you have a tool named timeshift with this tool named timeshift and more features ...
You can install with:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 install timeshift.x86_64
I run this tool with :
mythcat@localhost:~$ sudo timeshift-gtk 
The result is this G.U.I. ...
... because the backup is not easy, I search on web and I found a video tutorial from the official youtube channel - DrewHowdenTech
...

Fedora 41 : Minimal gnome install and nemo additionals packages.

I reinstall the Fedora, somehow was crashed with a bad systemd error:
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 22 20:11:15 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux
If you install nemo with minimal gnome features then you need to install fedora packages, like this one:
root@localhost:/home/mythcat# dnf5 install nemo-image-converter

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Fedora 42 : Can be better? part 020.

I wrote in some posts about this blog about the possibility of improving the distribution of Linux Fedora.
Today I discovered that choosing GNOME is a better option with lighting modes and options for the Nemo file manager actions.
I would have wanted to have a better network system similar to portmanager with S.P.N. for fedora users and team on web.
SPN (Secure Peer Name) is a technology related to secure communication protocols, particularly in the context of peer-to-peer networks and distributed systems.
I want to have more tools and applications on tty with GUI, like ncurses... I created an radio online application with ncurses and you can find it on my pagure.
The main goal of these type of graphic user interface is simplicity, no need hardware resources - this HP Compaq 6710b has only 4Gb RAM, and cand be used with Single Board Computer.
I think Fedora don't have a Fedora Spin for Single Board Computer hardware.
Let's start with python 3 action on nemo file manager.
Go to the action folder and create an action file named: python3.nemo_action.
[root@fedora mythcat]# cd /usr/share/nemo/actions
[root@fedora actions]# nano python3.nemo_action
Add this source code :
[Nemo Action]
Name=Execute Python Script
Icon-Name=python
Exec=env /usr/bin/python3 %F
Selection=S
Name[tr]=Python script         
Extensions=py;
Reopen the Nemo file manager and you see an an Execute Python Script, only on the python script on right click menu.
Let's see some screenshots:

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Fedora 42 : ... testing Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE).

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) is a utility that creates a database of files on the system, and then uses that database to ensure file integrity and detect system intrusions.. See more on the official fedora documentation webpage.
NOTE : The documentation and translations on the official page are in progress due to ongoing development and resource management ...
I used the DNF tool to install:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo dnf install aide
... aide      x86_64      0.18.6-5.fc41        rawhide      
Make sure the AIDE database file exists and is accessible:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz
Ensure that the user running AIDE has the necessary permissions:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/aide/
Check the AIDE configuration file:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo cat /etc/aide.conf | grep DBDIR
Check if the AIDE service file exists:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo ls /usr/lib/systemd/system/ | grep aide
If the service exists then check the status:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo systemctl status aide
Unit aide.service could not be found.
If the service not exist then take some time to run first time ...
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo /sbin/aide --init
...
End timestamp: 2024-10-26 14:10:00 +0300 (run time: 98m 41s)
You can check each time you want ...
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo /sbin/aide --check
If you want and your Fedora linux need to use this tool, then you can use it like service:
sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/aide.service
Fill with the basic service source code like any unit service :
[Unit]
   Description=Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
   After=network.target

   [Service]
   Type=simple
   ExecStart=/sbin/aide --init
   ExecStop=/sbin/aide --check
   Restart=on-failure

   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
This is a simple tutorial about how to start with AIDE tool ...

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Fedora 42 : Still in the development without some features ...

An intrusion on my vodafone network , change my layout on windows.
Even the network provider say always is not from hardware or administration vodafone network ...
I tried to wrote a post on my graphics blogger on windows os , but I got something like this:
... ld ne frm 3 cmbire 224 ...
My nicknames comes like this: mhca caafe for mythcat and catafest ...
The tab and enter keys not works, also 1234 789 and num keys ... and more keys: s, t, w, y, o.
This post is wrote on Fedora 42 and works fine , but will be more good if this distro will have all features.
Some examples :
- Selinux still works but some enforced can change the default user permissions and privileges.
- Selinux works but you can use full features like : mls.
- the TPM device from this HP Laptop cannot be used with all features on Fedora.
In conclusion, this old laptop with Fedora and GNOME environment is more than 10 times faster human operations on the range of time, than the Asus laptop with the same 4GB RAM but with a different CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-60060 @ 2.00 GHz 1.99 GHz and windows 10 pro.

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Fedora 42 : Testing isoimagewriter.

Today I tested the isoimagewriter tool on Fedora 42 and works well:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 984 MiB, 1031798784 bytes, 2015232 sectors
Disk model: USB FLASH DRIVE 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ isoimagewriter 
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo file -s /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CorePure64' (bootable)
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /dev/sdb 
I used an linux iso image from CorePure64

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Fedora 42 : Using dosbox to run old games in Fedora Linux distro.

You can run DOS games with the DOSBOX emulator ...
This can be install with DNF5 tool:
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install dosbox-staging.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                 Arch   Version                 Repository           Size
Installing:
 dosbox-staging         x86_64 0.81.2-3.fc42           updates-testing  14.6 MiB
The next step is to run the game ...
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ ls /usr/share/dunelegacy/
 ATRE.PAK                  DUNE.PAK       locale         SETUPENG.DIP
 CREDITS.ENG               ENGLISH.PAK    maps           Setup.EXE
 Dune2.BAT                 FINALE.PAK     MENTAT.PAK     SOUND.PAK
 Dune2.EXE                 GFXHD.PAK      MERC.PAK       VOC.PAK
 Dune2.ICO                 HARK.PAK       OneTime.DAT    Waveset.DAT
 Dune2-Versions.txt        HERC.PAK       OPENSD2.PAK    XTRE.PAK
 Dune.CFG                  INTRO.PAK      Options.CFG
'Dune II Icons.icl'        INTROVOC.PAK   ORDOS.PAK
'Dune II Unit Guide.txt'   LEGACY.PAK     SCENARIO.PAK
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ dosbox /usr/share/dunelegacy/Dune2.EXE 
date       time         | 
2024-10-16 11:39:03.508 | arguments: dosbox /usr/share/dunelegacy/Dune2.EXE
2024-10-16 11:39:03.509 | Current dir: /home/mythcat
2024-10-16 11:39:03.509 | stderr verbosity: 0
2024-10-16 11:39:03.509 | -----------------------------------

Monday, October 14, 2024

Fedora 42 : Dune Legacy game .

Dune Legacy is an effort by a handful of developers to revitalize the first-ever real-time strategy game.
It tries to be as similar as possible to the original gameplay but to integrate user interface features most modern realtime-strategy games have like selecting multiple units
I download this game from the official website, and I install with DNF5 tool:
[root@fedora Downloads]# dnf5 install dunelegacy-0.96.4.x86_64.rpm
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                 Arch   Version                 Repository           Size
Installing:
 dunelegacy             x86_64 0.96.4-0.1              @commandline      5.8 MiB
Installing dependencies:
 SDL2_mixer             x86_64 2.8.0-2.fc41            updates-testing 345.3 KiB
 ...
 Warning: skipped PGP checks for 1 package from repository: @commandline
Complete!
Find the orifinal Dune II on web, or try this website.
The game can be start after I unarchive the DuneII archive into DuneII then copy to /usr/share/dunelegacy ...
[mythcat@fedora DuneII]$ sudo su 
[sudo] parola pentru mythcat: 
[root@fedora DuneII]# cp *.* /usr/share/dunelegacy
[root@fedora DuneII]# exit
exit
[mythcat@fedora DuneII]$ dunelegacy 
.. and works well :

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Fedora 42 : The cvxpy python module ... part 001.

We are building a CVXPY community on Discord. Join the conversation! CVXPY is an open source Python-embedded modeling language for convex optimization problems. It lets you express your problem in a natural way that follows the math, rather than in the restrictive standard form required by solvers.
Today I install the cvxpy python module ...
You can see on the official website - www.cvxpy.org .
NOTE: I don't understand why the blogger don't have a a code tag , I used a div - pre - code into txt file to wrote my posts ...
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ nano tutoriale.txt 
Let's see ...
[mythcat@fedora home]# dnf5 upgrade
[mythcat@fedora home]# dnf5 install openblas-devel
[mythcat@fedora home]# dnf5 install blas-devel
...
$ ldconfig -p | grep openblas
$ ldconfig -p | grep blas
...
[mythcat@fedora home]$ pip install cvxpy
...
Successfully built cvxpy ecos scs qdldl
Installing collected packages: scipy, scs, qdldl, ecos, clarabel, osqp, cvxpy
Successfully installed clarabel-0.9.0 cvxpy-1.5.2 ecos-2.0.14 osqp-0.6.7.post3 qdldl-0.1.7.post4 scipy-1.14.1 scs-3.2.7

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Fedora 42 : First test with red language - part 001.

Red is a next-generation programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting and cross-platform reactive GUI, while providing modern support for concurrency, all in a zero-install, zero-config, single ~1MB file!
I download and change to be executable:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ cd red-lang/
[mythcat@fedora red-lang]$ ls
red-03oct24-920dd0452  red-toolchain-03oct24-920dd0452  red-view-03oct24-920dd0452
[mythcat@fedora red-lang]$ ls -l
total 4444
-rw-r--r--. 1 mythcat mythcat 1347348 Oct  4 23:56 red-03oct24-920dd0452
-rw-r--r--. 1 mythcat mythcat 1611781 Oct  4 23:55 red-toolchain-03oct24-920dd0452
-rw-r--r--. 1 mythcat mythcat 1589092 Oct  4 23:55 red-view-03oct24-920dd0452
[mythcat@fedora red-lang]$ chmod 760 red*
[mythcat@fedora red-lang]$ ls -l
total 4444
-rwxrw----. 1 mythcat mythcat 1347348 Oct  4 23:56 red-03oct24-920dd0452
-rwxrw----. 1 mythcat mythcat 1611781 Oct  4 23:55 red-toolchain-03oct24-920dd0452
-rwxrw----. 1 mythcat mythcat 1589092 Oct  4 23:55 red-view-03oct24-920dd0452
I check and install these supporting libraries:
sudo yum install glibc.i686
sudo yum install libcurl.i686
sudo yum install gtk3.i686
I start with the basic intro example from the official website.
Then I need to check the missing files with the DNF tool and install Fedora packages for each error on runtime with executable result
dnf provides \*/libgtk-3.so.0
The result is this:

Fedora 42 : Gnome intro ...

Today I tested the new GNOME environment and these are the screeenshot I get:
Look's good ..., see the tour idea ...

Monday, October 7, 2024

Fedora 42 : Fedora game project with pygame and agentpy - part 004.

... working on hacking game code , you can test two version of the unfinished game with agentpy at my pagure Fedora account.
* Hack the code based on minimal information versus total information. The code has 5 distinct letters. - click on the letters on the keypad - the number of guessed letters is displayed in the form: centered - guessed letters on positions and moved guessed letters but on other positions NOTE: the source code is under development, I need to enter a scroll to be able to enter more codes with letters

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Fedora 42 : testing programming for ARM - part 001.

Today I tested the creation of a program that works on ARM processors and tested with QEMU emulator in Fedora 42.
I install with dnf5 these fedora packages:
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 clean all
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install qemu-system-arm
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install arm-none-eabi-gcc gcc-arm-linux-gnu gcc-c++-arm-linux-gnu
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install arm-none-eabi-newlib.noarch 
...
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install binutils-devel
I create a new folder into may pagure account to test this issue with QEMU:
[mythcat@fedora mythcat]$ mkdir ARMProjects
[mythcat@fedora mythcat]$ cd ARMProjects/
[mythcat@fedora ARMProjects]$ qemu-system-arm --version
QEMU emulator version 9.1.0 (qemu-9.1.0-2.fc42)
I create a default assembly file for ARM named hello.s:
[mythcat@fedora ARMProjects]$ cat hello.s 
.global _start

_start:
    mov r0, #1     
    mov r7, #4     
    str r0, [r7]
    bx lr
Let's see how this means:
  • global _start: This declares the _start label as global, making it accessible from outside the file.
  • _start:: This marks the beginning of the program.
  • mov r0, #1: Moves the immediate value 1 into register R0.
  • mov r7, #4: Moves the immediate value 4 into register R7. This represents the system call number for write().
  • str r0, [r7]: Stores the contents of R0 (which contains 1) into the memory address pointed to by R7.
  • bx lr: Branches to the address in Link Register (LR). In this case, it loops indefinitely because there's no return instruction.
The compile of the file:
[mythcat@fedora ARMProjects]$ arm-none-eabi-gcc -nostartfiles -lc hello.s -o hello.o
[mythcat@fedora ARMProjects]$ ls
hello.o  hello.s
Let's see the hello.o file:
[mythcat@fedora ARMProjects]$ nm hello.o
00008000 t $a
00009010 T __bss_end__
00009010 T _bss_end__
00009010 T __bss_start
00009010 T __bss_start__
00009010 T __data_start
00009010 T _edata
00009010 T __end__
00009010 T _end
00080000 B _stack
00008000 T _start
[mythcat@fedora ARMProjects]$ objdump -f hello.o

hello.o:     file format elf32-little
architecture: UNKNOWN!, flags 0x00000112:
EXEC_P, HAS_SYMS, D_PAGED
start address 0x00008000

Fedora 42 : ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip ... cannot be fixed.

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It's a hardware security chip designed to provide cryptographic capabilities and perform platform authentication.
I found this error and I tried to fix on my laptop HP 6710b:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo dmesg | grep Error
[    1.274790] tpm tpm0: [Hardware Error]: Adjusting reported timeouts: A 750->750000us B 2000->2000000us C 750->750000us D 750->750000us
[    2.240276] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.243913] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.246923] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.249919] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.253088] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.255923] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.258921] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.261938] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip
[    2.415255] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initia
I update and nistall with the dnf5 tool
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 upgrade 
...
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf install tpm-tools
...
I reboot the Fedora and I try to test it:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ ls /dev/tpm*
/dev/tpm0
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ lsmod | grep tpm
tpm_infineon           20480  0
To see all commands, use:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ tpm_
tpm_changeownerauth  tpm_nvwrite          tpm_setclearable
tpm_clear            tpm_resetdalock      tpm_setenable
tpm_createek         tpm_restrictpubek    tpm_setoperatorauth
tpm_getpubek         tpm_restrictsrk      tpm_setownable
tpm_nvdefine         tpm_revokeek         tpm_setpresence
tpm_nvinfo           tpm_sealdata         tpm_takeownership
tpm_nvread           tpm_selftest         tpm_unsealdata
tpm_nvrelease        tpm_setactive        tpm_version
I install tcsd
[root@fedora mythcat]#  dnf install tcsd
...
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo usermod -a -G tss $USER
[root@fedora mythcat]# systemctl daemon-reload
[root@fedora mythcat]# systemctl start tcsd
[root@fedora mythcat]#  systemctl status tcsd
I check the tpm version vith:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ tpm_version
  TPM 1.2 Version Info:
  Chip Version:        1.2.1.2
  Spec Level:          2
  Errata Revision:     0
  TPM Vendor ID:       IFX
  TPM Version:         01010000
  Manufacturer Info:   49465800
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo dnf5 search tpm2-tools
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
 tpm2-tools.x86_64: A bunch of TPM testing toolS build upon tpm2-tss
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo dnf5 install tpm2-tools
...
Package "tpm2-tools-5.7-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
The last error :
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo tpm2_startup
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tcti-device.c:455:Tss2_Tcti_Device_Init() Failed to open specified TCTI device file /dev/tpmrm0: No such file or directory 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr-dl.c:149:tcti_from_file() Could not initialize TCTI file: libtss2-tcti-device.so.0 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tcti-device.c:455:Tss2_Tcti_Device_Init() Failed to open specified TCTI device file /dev/tpm0: Device or resource busy 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr-dl.c:149:tcti_from_file() Could not initialize TCTI file: libtss2-tcti-device.so.0 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tcti-device.c:455:Tss2_Tcti_Device_Init() Failed to open specified TCTI device file /dev/tcm0: No such file or directory 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr-dl.c:149:tcti_from_file() Could not initialize TCTI file: libtss2-tcti-device.so.0 
WARNING:tcti:src/util-io/io.c:262:socket_connect() Failed to connect to host 127.0.0.1, port 2321: errno 111: Connection refused 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tcti-swtpm.c:617:Tss2_Tcti_Swtpm_Init() Cannot connect to swtpm TPM socket 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr-dl.c:149:tcti_from_file() Could not initialize TCTI file: libtss2-tcti-swtpm.so.0 
WARNING:tcti:src/util-io/io.c:262:socket_connect() Failed to connect to host 127.0.0.1, port 2321: errno 111: Connection refused 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr-dl.c:149:tcti_from_file() Could not initialize TCTI file: libtss2-tcti-mssim.so.0 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr-dl.c:263:tctildr_get_default() No standard TCTI could be loaded 
ERROR:tcti:src/tss2-tcti/tctildr.c:477:tctildr_init_context_data() Failed to instantiate TCTI 
ERROR: Could not load tcti, got: "(null)"

Fedora 42 : Fedora game project with pygame and agentpy - part 003.

I have upgraded the source code with the following changes:
  • added agent with logic using the python agentpy module;
  • I increased the grid to 16 x 16;
  • I kept the win condition at 8 pieces aligned in any direction;
  • I added conditions for displaying the equality message;
The game is hard to win, you can try on my pagure account.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Fedora 42 : Fedora game project with pygame and agentpy - part 002.

... and update from 8 in 8 with SVG file type.
The source code I used or you can find it on the pagure project:
import pygame
from pygame.math import Vector2
import random
import os 
username = os.getlogin()
# Initialize Pygame
pygame.init()
# Set up the display
width, height = 800, 800
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
pygame.display.set_caption("Eight-in-a-Row")
# Font setup
font = pygame.font.Font(None, 74)
# Colors
WHITE = (255, 255, 255)
BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
BLUE = (0, 0, 120)
# Game board dimensions
BOARD_WIDTH = 8
BOARD_HEIGHT = 8

class Player:
    def __init__(self, color, is_computer=False):
        self.color = color
        self.pieces = set()
        self.is_computer = is_computer
        self.svg_image = self.load_svg_image()

    def add_piece(self, x, y):
        self.pieces.add((x, y))

    # def draw_pieces(self):
    #     for x, y in self.pieces:
    #         pygame.draw.circle(screen, self.color, 
    #                            (x * width // BOARD_WIDTH + width // (2 * BOARD_WIDTH), 
    #                             y * height // BOARD_HEIGHT + height // (2 * BOARD_HEIGHT)), 
    #                            min(width, height) // (2 * BOARD_WIDTH) - 5)
    
    def load_svg_image(self):
        if self.color == BLUE:
            svg_path = "penguin-svgrepo-com.svg"
        elif self.color == WHITE:
            svg_path = "cube-svgrepo-com.svg"
        else:
            svg_path = "cube-svgrepo-com.svg"
        return pygame.image.load(svg_path)

    def draw_pieces(self):
        piece_size = min(width, height) // (BOARD_WIDTH) - 10
        for x, y in self.pieces:
            pos = Vector2(x * width // BOARD_WIDTH + width // (2 * BOARD_WIDTH),
                          y * height // BOARD_HEIGHT + height // (2 * BOARD_HEIGHT))
            scaled_image = pygame.transform.scale(self.svg_image, (piece_size, piece_size))
            image_rect = scaled_image.get_rect(center=pos)
            screen.blit(scaled_image, image_rect)

    def make_move(self, board):
        if self.is_computer:
            empty_squares = [(x, y) for x in range(BOARD_WIDTH) for y in range(BOARD_HEIGHT) 
                             if (x, y) not in board[0] and (x, y) not in board[1]]
            if empty_squares:
                return random.choice(empty_squares)
        return None

def check_winner(player):
    directions = [(0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1), (1, -1)]
    for x, y in player.pieces:
        for dx, dy in directions:
            if all((x + i*dx, y + i*dy) in player.pieces for i in range(8)):
                return True
    return False
    
def display_winner(winner):
    text = font.render(f"Player {winner} wins!", True, [145,190,190])
    text_rect = text.get_rect(center=(width // 2, height // 2))
    screen.blit(text, text_rect)
    pygame.display.flip()
    pygame.time.wait(3000)  # Display the message for 3 seconds

# Create players
player1 = Player(BLUE)
player2 = Player(WHITE, is_computer=True)
# Game loop
running = True
turn = 0
game_over = False

while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
        elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN and not game_over:
            if turn % 2 == 0:  # Human player's turn
                mouse_x, mouse_y = event.pos
                column = mouse_x // (width // BOARD_WIDTH)
                row = mouse_y // (height // BOARD_HEIGHT)
                
                if (column, row) not in player1.pieces and (column, row) not in player2.pieces:
                    player1.add_piece(column, row)
                    
                    if check_winner(player1):
                        # print("Player 1 wins!")
                        display_winner(username)
                        game_over = True
                    
                    turn += 1

    if not game_over and turn % 2 == 1:  # Computer player's turn
        move = player2.make_move((player1.pieces, player2.pieces))
        if move:
            player2.add_piece(*move)
            
            if check_winner(player2):
                # print("Player 2 (Computer) wins!")
                display_winner("Computer")
                game_over = True
            turn += 1

    screen.fill(BLACK)
    
    # Draw game board
    for i in range(BOARD_WIDTH + 1):
        pygame.draw.line(screen, WHITE, (i * width // BOARD_WIDTH, 0), (i * width // BOARD_WIDTH, height), 2)
    for i in range(BOARD_HEIGHT + 1):
        pygame.draw.line(screen, WHITE, (0, i * height // BOARD_HEIGHT), (width, i * height // BOARD_HEIGHT), 2)

    # Draw pieces
    player1.draw_pieces()
    player2.draw_pieces()
    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Fedora 42 : Fedora game project with pygame and agentpy - part 001.

I started a game project with the python packages pygame and agentpy in the Fedora 42 Linux distribution.
I used this version of Fedora:
[mythcat@fedora fedora_game]$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.11.0-63.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Sep 15 17:14:12 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux
... and this python version:
Python 3.12.3 (main, Apr 17 2024, 00:00:00) [GCC 14.0.1 20240411 (Red Hat 14.0.1-0)] on linux
You can find it on my fedora pagure repo

Thursday, September 12, 2024

News : I updated to Fedora 42 .

Few days ago, I updated the Fedora to version 42 on HP Compaq 6710b laptop.
Almost over four thousand Fedora packages have been instaled and reviewed ...
See the result :
$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.11.0-0.rc7.20240910gitbc83b4d1f086.57.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Sep 10 15:43:53 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Monday, June 10, 2024

Fedora 41 : Install portmaster.

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity.
First, download the RPM package from the official website.
Use the dnf5 tool and install it.
The last step is to open, after restart Fedora, see the result on my openbox environment:

Friday, June 7, 2024

Fedora 41 : solving conky default configuration in openbox environment.

I installed Conky on an openbox environment and found an error, it doesn't display upload and download from the network correctly.
I had to use the ifconfig command to see the network interface and then I had to modify the default file.
The default configuration file can be found and edited with any text editor:
[root@fedora mythcat]# nano /etc/conky/conky.conf
Here's how it looks functionally.
-- Conky, a system monitor https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
--
-- This configuration file is Lua code. You can write code in here, and it will
-- execute when Conky loads. You can use it to generate your own advanced
-- configurations.
--
-- Try this (remove the `--`):
--
--   print("Loading Conky config")
--
-- For more on Lua, see:
-- https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_left',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    default_color = 'white',
    default_outline_color = 'white',
    default_shade_color = 'white',
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12',
    gap_x = 60,
    gap_y = 60,
    minimum_height = 5,
    minimum_width = 5,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_type = 'desktop',
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    update_interval = 1.0,
    uppercase = false,
    use_spacer = 'none',
    use_xft = true,
}

conky.text = [[
${color grey}Info:$color ${scroll 32 Conky $conky_version - $sysname $nodename $kernel $machine}
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color cyan}Networking:
${color grey}Up: ${upspeed ens1} ${color grey} - Down: ${downspeed ens1}

$hr
${color grey}Name              PID     CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
]]

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Fedora 41 : python and Federated Message Bus in Fedora Linux Distro.

Federated Message Bus is a library built on ZeroMQ using the PyZMQ Python bindings. fedmsg aims to make it easy to connect services together using ZeroMQ publishers and subscribers.
You can use this python package named fedmsg to use this functionality ...
This is the source code :
import fedmsg
from fedmsg import *

import os
# Set the routing_nitpicky flag to True
os.environ['FEDMSG_ROUTING_NITPICKY'] = 'True'


config = fedmsg.config.load_config([],None)
config['mute'] = True
config['timeout'] = 0

for name, endpoint, topic, msg in fedmsg.tail_messages(**config):
    print ("name ", name)
This is the result :
[mythcat@fedora FedoraMessaging]$ python fedmsg_001.py
No routing policy defined for "org.fedoraproject.prod.copr.build.start" but routing_nitpicky is False so the message is being treated as authorized.
name  fedora-infrastructure
No routing policy defined for "org.fedoraproject.prod.copr.chroot.start" but routing_nitpicky is False so the message is being treated as authorized.
name  fedora-infrastructure
No routing policy defined for "org.fedoraproject.prod.github.check_run" but routing_nitpicky is False so the message is being treated as authorized.
name  fedora-infrastructure
No routing policy defined for "org.fedoraproject.prod.github.pull_request_review" but routing_nitpicky is False so the message is being treated as authorized.
name  fedora-infrastructure
No routing policy defined for "org.fedoraproject.prod.github.pull_request_review_comment" but routing_nitpicky is False so the message is being treated as authorized.
name  fedora-infrastructure ... 

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Fedora 40 : Fedora CoreOS - part 001.

The documentation for Fedora 40 CoreOS can be found on the official webpage.
I download the fedora-coreos-40.20240331.1.0-virtualbox.x86_64.ova file.
You can use double click to open with the VirtualBox application, see the next screenshot:
Fedora use ssh keys and a user named core, use these steps from the official webpage to change the password for this user.
The result will be this:
You need to use these steps to create a password based on the butane and ignition software to login with the ssh-rsa.

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Fedora 41 : Python and the Fedora Messaging Infrastructure - part 001.

Yesterday I tried to use Fedora Messaging.
You can find the documentation on the official page./div>
I created a working folder called FedoraMessaging:
[mythcat@fedora PythonProjects]$ mkdir FedoraMessaging
[mythcat@fedora PythonProjects]$ cd FedoraMessaging
You need to install the fedora-messaging and rabbitmq-server packages.
[root@fedora FedoraMessaging]# dnf5 install fedora-messaging
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                             Arch    Version                       Repository         Size
Installing:                                                                                      
 fedora-messaging                   noarch  3.5.0-1.fc41                  rawhide        38.6 KiB
...
[root@fedora FedoraMessaging]# dnf install rabbitmq-server
At some point it will ask for a reboot.
You need to install the python package named fedora-messaging.
[root@fedora FedoraMessaging]# pip install --user fedora-messaging
Collecting fedora-messaging
...
Installing collected packages: pytz, incremental, wrapt, tomli, rpds-py, pyasn1, pika, hyperlink, constantly, attrs, 
referencing, pyasn1-modules, automat, twisted, jsonschema-specifications, service-identity, jsonschema, crochet, 
fedora-messaging
Successfully installed attrs-23.2.0 automat-22.10.0 constantly-23.10.4 crochet-2.1.1 fedora-messaging-3.5.0 
hyperlink-21.0.0 incremental-22.10.0 jsonschema-4.21.1 jsonschema-specifications-2023.12.1 pika-1.3.2 pyasn1-0.6.0 
pyasn1-modules-0.4.0 pytz-2024.1 referencing-0.34.0 rpds-py-0.18.0 service-identity-24.1.0 tomli-2.0.1 twisted-24.3.0 
wrapt-1.16.0
You need to start the broker:
[mythcat@fedora FedoraMessaging]$ sudo systemctl start rabbitmq-server
I used the source code from the documentation to test its functionality with a python script named hello_test.py.
from fedora_messaging import api, config

config.conf.setup_logging()
api.consume(lambda message: print(message))

from fedora_messaging import api, config

config.conf.setup_logging()
api.publish(api.Message(topic="hello by mythcat", body={"Hello": "world!"}))
I ran it and got this response:
[mythcat@fedora FedoraMessaging]$ python hello_test.py
[fedora_messaging.message INFO] Registering the 'base.message' key as the '<class 'fedora_messaging.message.Message'>' 
class in the Message class registry
[fedora_messaging.twisted.protocol INFO] Waiting for 0 consumer(s) to finish processing before halting
[fedora_messaging.twisted.protocol INFO] Finished canceling 0 consumers
[fedora_messaging.twisted.protocol INFO] Disconnect requested, but AMQP connection already gone
I created another python script named my_consumer.py, to check if this works:
from fedora_messaging import api, config
# Setup logging
config.conf.setup_logging()
# Define the callback function to process messages
def process_message(message):
    # Check if the message topic matches "hello by mythcat"
    if message.topic == "hello by mythcat":
        print(f"Received message: {message.body}")
    else:
        print(f"Ignoring message with topic: {message.topic}")
# Consume messages
api.consume(process_message)
I ran it and got this response:
[mythcat@fedora FedoraMessaging]$ python my_consumer.py
[fedora_messaging.twisted.protocol INFO] Successfully registered AMQP consumer Consumer(queue=amq.gen-9lKk7sGeYY5I40bdc5VrzQ,
callback=<function process_message at 0x7fdb0f5da160>)
[fedora_messaging.message INFO] Registering the 'base.message' key as the '<class 'fedora_messaging.message.Message'>'
class in the Message class registry
[fedora_messaging.twisted.consumer INFO] Consuming message from topic hello by mythcat 
(message id 800a1540-1e91-4b4a-a125-15e33eebb699)
Received message: {'Hello': 'world!'}
[fedora_messaging.twisted.consumer INFO] Successfully consumed message from topic hello by mythcat 
(message id 800a1540-1e91-4b4a-a125-15e33eebb699)
It can be seen that the answer is received and displayed correctly.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Fedora 41 : Memstrack tool.

A runtime memory allocation tracer, like a hot spot analyzer for memory allocation, can help analyze overall memory usage, peak memory usage, kernel module memory usage, all combined with stacktrace. Userspace memory trace is planned and not yet implemented.
This tool works by tracing all page-level memory allocation events in kernel (currently supports using perf or ftrace), and actively integrate the events into a stack trace tree. It can also work with kernel's page owner log file and use as a memory usage viewer.
I tested this tool today and it is quite useful for development and monitoring the operating system, it seems to work very well, you can even see in the screenshot how ...
You can find this project on the GitHub repo.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Fedora 40 : Fix emergency run mode - part 001.

Run this commands to see errors and all failed systemd units:
[root@fedora mythcat]# dmesg | grep err
[root@fedora mythcat]# systemctl status --failed --all
If you get an error like this:
Recovery unable to mount /home
... check the /etc/fstab file to see how your home is set.

Sunday, March 24, 2024

News : Fedora 40 Beta RC 1.10 compose ...

The Fedora Linux 40 Beta RC 1.10 compose is GO and will be shipped live on Tuesday, 26th March 2024.
This announcement was made on the devel-announce list by Aoife Moloney.
Aoife Moloney, the Fedora Operations Architect, has recently joined the Fedora community.
The Beta RC compose serves as a preliminary version of the upcoming Fedora release and allows Quality Engineering (QE) to thoroughly test the system and identify any critical issues before the final release.
You can find schedule for Fedora 40 on the official website.

Friday, March 22, 2024

News : Flutter on Fedora 40 - the run debug info.

The run command comes with info about the running process, see:
[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ../flutter/bin/flutter run
Launching lib/main.dart on Linux in debug mode...
Building Linux application...                                           
Syncing files to device Linux...                                 1,488ms

Flutter run key commands.
r Hot reload. 🔥🔥🔥
R Hot restart.
h List all available interactive commands.
d Detach (terminate "flutter run" but leave application running).
c Clear the screen
q Quit (terminate the application on the device).

A Dart VM Service on Linux is available at: http://127.0.0.1:38903/k8tmzU7n0NQ=/
The Flutter DevTools debugger and profiler on Linux is available at:
http://127.0.0.1:9100?uri=http://127.0.0.1:38903/k8tmzU7n0NQ=/
If you open that URL you will see this type of informations:

Fedora 40 : Spectacle tool.

Spectacle is a screenshot taking utility for the KDE desktop. Spectacle can also be used in non-KDE X11 desktop environments.
This is the GitHub project for this tool.
[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf5 install spectacle.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                       Arch   Version                 Repository      Size
Installing:                                                                      
 spectacle                    x86_64 24.02.0-1.fc41          updates-te   4.8 MiB
Installing dependencies:                                                         
...
This is an screenshot with this tool:

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Fedora 40 : sngrep tool.

The sngrep is a tool for displaying SIP calls message flows from terminal and supports live capture to display realtime SIP packets and can also be used as PCAP viewer.
[mythcat@fedora ~]# dnf copr enable irontec/sngrep
[mythcat@fedora ~]# dnf install sngrep
[mythcat@fedora ~]# exit
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ sudo sngrep  -d ens1 -O save.pcap port 8080 and udp
The result is this:

Sunday, March 17, 2024

News : Flutter on Fedora 40.

Flutter transforms the development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded experiences from a single codebase.
Read more on the official webpage.
Theoretically, Flutter can be used much easier in the Fedora 40 Linux distribution than in a Windows operating system.
The Windows installation method requires more complicated steps with the use of S.D.K. and settings of Android Studio I.D.E. .
Here are the steps you need to follow for a default installation.
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ mkdir ~/FlutterProjects
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ cd FlutterProjects/
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra_release/releases
/stable/linux/flutter_linux_3.3.10-stable.tar.xz
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ tar xf flutter_linux_3.3.10-stable.tar.xz
[mythcat@fedora ~]$
...

[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ ./flutter/bin/flutter doctor

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ A new version of Flutter is available!                  │
│                                                         │
│ To update to the latest version, run "flutter upgrade". │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
...

      If the Android SDK has been installed to a custom location, please use
      `flutter config --android-sdk` to update to that location.

[✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at
    google-chrome)
    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[!] Android Studio (not installed)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.87.2)
[✓] Connected device (1 available)
[✓] HTTP Host Availability

! Doctor found issues in 3 categories.
[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ ./flutter/bin/flutter upgrade

...

    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[!] Android Studio (not installed)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.87.2)
[✓] Connected device (1 available)
[✓] Network resources

! Doctor found issues in 4 categories.

[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ ./flutter/bin/flutter config --enable-linux-desktop
Setting "enable-linux-desktop" value to "true".

You may need to restart any open editors for them to read new settings.

[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ mkdir examples
[mythcat@fedora FlutterProjects]$ cd examples/

[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ../flutter/bin/flutter create .
Creating project ....
Resolving dependencies... (5.1s)
Got dependencies.
Wrote 129 files.

All done!
You can find general documentation for Flutter at: https://docs.flutter.dev/
Detailed API documentation is available at: https://api.flutter.dev/
If you prefer video documentation, consider:
https://www.youtube.com/c/flutterdev

In order to run your application, type:

  $ cd .
  $ flutter run

Your application code is in ./lib/main.dart.

[mythcat@fedora examples]$ cd .
[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ls
analysis_options.yaml  ios    macos         README.md  windows
android                lib    pubspec.lock  test
examples.iml           linux  pubspec.yaml  web
[mythcat@fedora examples]$ ../flutter/bin/flutter run
The result is this simple default example:

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

News : SELinux wizzard tool !

I found today in Fedora linux this tool for SELinux with a GUI that allows creating linux security policies.
I will write a little about this system because it is a very good solution.
When I started studying selinux, it was not very well implemented and it seems that the interest of users to be protected is higher.
As you well know, the starting points are network security and data protection and kernel-level intrusions into software.
For those who don't know, SELinux is a system that allows limiting defined resources and allowing other actions or not.
I tested the tool and I can say that it solves only the standard file creation part without the possibility of selecting the SELinux bools variables.
If the one who created this tool will continue to be a very good tool.
It's currently a wizzard interface, I'd call it a Node Editor to allow the assembly of different processing blocks (nodes) into combinations that feed data to each other along connections you specify to produce complex effects.
After completing the steps in the wizard, you will have some default files.
I used the name firefox because the security of the browser is very low at the moment.
Here are some images of this tool:

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

News : ... about new about Google Analytics 4.

I found at Google.com analytics academy this message that urges us to go through the courses from the skillshop.exceedlms.com website.
It seems to pass this is quite important if they offered free courses:
These courses are about Universal Analytics. Starting July 1, 2023, standard UA properties will stop processing data (July 1, 2024 for UA 360 properties). Learn about Google Analytics 4, our next-generation measurement solution, with these free courses on Skillshop.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

News : VirtualBox 7.0.14 released! from Oracle.

Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the Changelog
I also use a version of Fedora running on VirtualBox for tests and rapid development.
Most use Linux on older hardware as a backup OS...
You can use Linux with specific non-default settings for good security of the operating system, but it does not make it invincible.
I don't know if VirtualBox solved the resize of the virtual partition - this was the last issue I encountered with this tool, but it is useful if you want to test something quickly.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Fedora 40 : Find version and GlibC flaw !

Because today I saw a video about the GlibC flaw that lets attackers get root on major distros, I will show an easy way to find the version of this lib with dnf and dnf5 tools:
[root@fedora var]# dnf in glibc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:06 ago on Wed 31 Jan 2024 10:25:13 PM EET.
Package glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.
Package glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.i686 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[root@fedora var]# dnf5 in glibc
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "glibc-2.38.9000-35.fc40.i686" is already installed.
You can see in the name is add the version: 2.38.9000-35.fc40.x86_64.
This is the video about GlibC from Bits inside by René Rebe.