Fedora 31 : Can be better? part 005.

Today we have once again dealt with this topic on the possibilities of improving the Fedora distro.
This time the adventure turned to the Selinux system switching to SELinux MLS.
Let's test the SELinux Fedora 31 from default targeted to mls.
First let's see the users:

[root@desk mythcat]# semanage user -l

                Labeling   MLS/       MLS/                          
SELinux User    Prefix     MCS Level  MCS Range                      SELinux Roles

guest_u         user       s0         s0                             guest_r
root            user       s0         s0-s0:c0.c1023                 staff_r sysadm_r system_r unconfined_r
staff_u         user       s0         s0-s0:c0.c1023                 staff_r sysadm_r system_r unconfined_r
sysadm_u        user       s0         s0-s0:c0.c1023                 sysadm_r
system_u        user       s0         s0-s0:c0.c1023                 system_r unconfined_r
unconfined_u    user       s0         s0-s0:c0.c1023                 system_r unconfined_r
user_u          user       s0         s0                             user_r
xguest_u        user       s0         s0                             xguest_r

To use the MLS you need to change this file:

[root@desk mythcat]# vim /etc/selinux/config


# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
#     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
#     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these three values:
#     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
#     minimum - Modification of targeted policy. Only selected processes are protected. 
#     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

The changes are:

#SELINUX=enforcing
SELINUX=permissive
...
#SELINUXTYPE=targeted
SELINUXTYPE=mls

Is need to install these packages:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf search mls | grep selinux
Last metadata expiration check: 2:45:09 ago on Sun 02 Feb 2020 01:28:54 PM EET.
selinux-policy-mls.noarch : SELinux mls base policy
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install selinux-policy-mls.noarch
...
Installed:
  mcstrans-2.9-2.fc31.x86_64                                                    
  policycoreutils-newrole-2.9-5.fc31.x86_64                                     
  selinux-policy-mls-3.14.4-45.fc31.noarch                                      

Complete!

These commands will relabel and start the MLS.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ setenforce 0
[mythcat@desk ~]$ getenforce
Permissive
...
[root@desk mythcat]# touch /.autorelabel
[root@desk mythcat]# reboot

If you have problems on boot the add selinux=0 on boot kernel.
After I boot and relabel all files I got errors about Gtk-Messages.
I remove my old Cinnamon with this command:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf groupremove -y "Cinnnamon"

I list all my group with dnf tool:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf grouplist -v 

I install the MATE environment:

dnf groupinstall -y "MATE Desktop" --allowerasing

After that the only way to start the environement is this command:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service

Another issue comes from SELinux Alert Browser, where I get multiple alerts and these need to fix manually.
First, these alerts are more than 250.
After I fix some of these now I see only 50.
I think this problem with changing the SELinux type can be improved.

Fedora 31 : Using the dmesg command on Linux operating system.

The dmesg command is used to display the kernel-related messages on Unix like systems. Today I will show you how to use this command on the Linux operating system. Simply use the command:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg 
[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x21, date = 2019-02-13
...

Show the latest message that fits on screen:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg | less
... 

Use it to see infoermation about motherboard:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg | grep -i memory
...
[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg | grep -i dma
...
[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg | grep -i usb
...
[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg | grep -i tty
...

Same reult with a single command using multiple grep option:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg | grep -E "memory|dma|usb|tty"

This display logs related to error and warning:

[root@desk mythcat]# dmesg --level=err,warn

The dmesg comes with supported log facilities:

• kern - kernel messages;
• user - random user-level messages;
• mail - mail system;
• daemon - system daemons;
• auth - security/authorization messages;
• syslog - messages generated internally by syslogd;
• lpr - line printer subsystem;
• news - network news subsystem;

See output facility only for one:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ dmesg --facility=daemon

Use root user to clear dmesg logs after the reading them:

[root@desk mythcat]# dmesg -C

If you want then you can show the outpout into the colored messages:

# dmesg -L

Fedora 31 : Can be better? part 004.

Another issue on Fedora can be linked to the management of transactions to avoid transaction lock. Let's see how can be fixed:

[root@desk mythcat]# rpm --rebuilddb
warning: waiting for transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
^C
[root@desk mythcat]# rm /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
rm: remove regular empty file '/var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock'? y
[root@desk mythcat]# rpm --rebuilddb
...
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf clean all
...
Waiting for process with pid 2128 to finish.
^CKeyboardInterrupt: Terminated.
[root@desk mythcat]# kill  -9 2128
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf clean all
95 files removed

Fedora 31 : The twa web auditor tool.

This tool comes with a good intro: A tiny web auditor with strong opinions.
The tool named twa takes one domain at a time and use these dependencies: bash 4, curl, dig, jq, and nc, along with the POSIX system.
The project can be found at GitHub repository but I can be install easy on Fedora 31 distro:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install twa.noarch 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:08 ago on Fri 24 Jan 2020 01:57:53 PM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package       Architecture     Version                  Repository        Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 twa           noarch           1.8.0-3.fc31             fedora            18 k

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

Total download size: 18 k
Installed size: 30 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
twa-1.8.0-3.fc31.noarch.rpm                      10 kB/s |  18 kB     00:01    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           6.7 kB/s |  18 kB     00:02     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : twa-1.8.0-3.fc31.noarch                                1/1 
  Running scriptlet: twa-1.8.0-3.fc31.noarch                                1/1 
  Verifying        : twa-1.8.0-3.fc31.noarch                                1/1 

Installed:
  twa-1.8.0-3.fc31.noarch                                                       

Complete!

Let's see some examples with google website responses and this tool:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ twa google.com
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0102: HTTP redirects to HTTP (not secure)
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0205: Strict-Transport-Security missing
MEH(google.com): TWA-0206: X-Frame-Options is 'sameorigin', consider 'deny'
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0209: X-Content-Type-Options missing
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0210: X-XSS-Protection is '0'; XSS filtering disabled
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0214: Referrer-Policy missing
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0219: Content-Security-Policy missing
FAIL(google.com): TWA-0220: Feature-Policy missing
PASS(google.com): Site sends 'Server', but probably only a vendor ID: gws
PASS(google.com): Site doesn't send 'X-Powered-By'
PASS(google.com): Site doesn't send 'Via'
PASS(google.com): Site doesn't send 'X-AspNet-Version'
PASS(google.com): Site doesn't send 'X-AspNetMvc-Version'
PASS(google.com): No SCM repository at: http://google.com/.git/HEAD
PASS(google.com): No SCM repository at: http://google.com/.hg/store/00manifest.i
PASS(google.com): No SCM repository at: http://google.com/.svn/entries
PASS(google.com): No environment file at: http://google.com/.env
PASS(google.com): No environment file at: http://google.com/.dockerenv
PASS(google.com): No config file at: http://google.com/config.xml
PASS(google.com): No config file at: http://google.com/config.json
PASS(google.com): No config file at: http://google.com/config.yaml
PASS(google.com): No config file at: http://google.com/config.yml
PASS(google.com): No config file at: http://google.com/config.ini
^C

The output result line looks like this:
TYPE(domain): explanation where TYPE is one of PASS, MEH, FAIL, UNK, SKIP, and FATAL., see the output example:
PASS: The test passed with flying color.
MEH: The test passed, but with one or more things that could be improved.
FAIL: The test failed and should be fixed.
UNK: The server gave us something we didn't understand.
SKIP: The server gave us something we understood, but that we don't handle yet.
FATAL: A really important test failed, and should be fixed immediately.
Another feature is scoring.
The score format is this: npasses nmehs nfailures nunknowns nskips totally_screwed.
Let's see one example:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ twa google.com | tscore
20 37 2 7 0 0 0

The tool can be used with Alpine Docker container.

Fedora 31 : Install Yii framework.

Today I will show you how to install the Yii framework:
Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework. Flexible yet pragmatic. Works right out of the box. Has reasonable defaults.
First, let's install the PHP , see the official webpage.
Fedora for PHP development.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf install php-cli
...
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): php-common-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm      794 kB/s | 760 kB     00:00    
(2/2): php-cli-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm         2.2 MB/s | 2.8 MB     00:01    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           1.6 MB/s | 3.5 MB     00:02     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : php-common-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64                        1/2 
  Installing       : php-cli-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64                           2/2 
  Running scriptlet: php-cli-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64                           2/2 
  Verifying        : php-cli-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64                           1/2 
  Verifying        : php-common-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64                        2/2 

Installed:
  php-cli-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64          php-common-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64         

Complete!

Install these packages: PHPUnit for unit tests or Composer.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf install phpunit composer
...
Complete!

Install mysqli extension:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf install php-mysqli
...
Installed:
  php-mysqlnd-7.3.13-1.fc31.x86_64                                              

Complete!

You can start the server:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo php --server localhost:8080 --docroot  .
PHP 7.3.13 Development Server started at Tue Jan 14 21:58:19 2020
Listening on http://localhost:8080
Document root is /home/mythcat
Press Ctrl-C to quit.
[Tue Jan 14 21:58:40 2020] [::1]:32988 [404]: / - No such file or directory
[Tue Jan 14 21:58:40 2020] [::1]:32990 [404]: / - No such file or directory
[Tue Jan 14 21:58:42 2020] [::1]:33014 [404]: /favicon.ico - No such file or directory
[Tue Jan 14 21:59:48 2020] [::1]:33080 [404]: / - No such file or directory
...

The composer command has these arguments:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ composer
   ______
  / ____/___  ____ ___  ____  ____  ________  _____
 / /   / __ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \/ ___/
/ /___/ /_/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ (__  )  __/ /
\____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/ .___/\____/____/\___/_/
                    /_/
Composer version 1.9.1 2019-11-01 17:20:17

Usage:
  command [options] [arguments]

Options:
  -h, --help                     Display this help message
  -q, --quiet                    Do not output any message
  -V, --version                  Display this application version
      --ansi                     Force ANSI output
      --no-ansi                  Disable ANSI output
  -n, --no-interaction           Do not ask any interactive question
      --profile                  Display timing and memory usage information
      --no-plugins               Whether to disable plugins.
  -d, --working-dir=WORKING-DIR  If specified, use the given directory as working directory.
      --no-cache                 Prevent use of the cache
  -v|vv|vvv, --verbose           Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output,

 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug

Available commands:
  about                Shows the short information about Composer.
  archive              Creates an archive of this composer package.
  browse               Opens the package's repository URL or homepage in your browser.
  check-platform-reqs  Check that platform requirements are satisfied.
  clear-cache          Clears composer's internal package cache.
  clearcache           Clears composer's internal package cache.
  config               Sets config options.
  create-project       Creates new project from a package into given directory.
  depends              Shows which packages cause the given package to be installed.
  diagnose             Diagnoses the system to identify common errors.
  dump-autoload        Dumps the autoloader.
  dumpautoload         Dumps the autoloader.
  exec                 Executes a vendored binary/script.
  global               Allows running commands in the global composer dir ($COMPOSER_HOME).
  help                 Displays help for a command
  home                 Opens the package's repository URL or homepage in your browser.
  i                    Installs the project dependencies from the composer.lock file if present,
 or falls back on the composer.json.
  info                 Shows information about packages.
  init                 Creates a basic composer.json file in current directory.
  install              Installs the project dependencies from the composer.lock file if present,
 or falls back on the composer.json.
  licenses             Shows information about licenses of dependencies.
  list                 Lists commands
  outdated             Shows a list of installed packages that have updates available, including
 their latest version.
  prohibits            Shows which packages prevent the given package from being installed.
  remove               Removes a package from the require or require-dev.
  require              Adds required packages to your composer.json and installs them.
  run                  Runs the scripts defined in composer.json.
  run-script           Runs the scripts defined in composer.json.
  search               Searches for packages.
  show                 Shows information about packages.
  status               Shows a list of locally modified packages, for packages installed from source.
  suggests             Shows package suggestions.
  u                    Upgrades your dependencies to the latest version according to composer.json,
 and updates the composer.lock file.
  update               Upgrades your dependencies to the latest version according to composer.json,
 and updates the composer.lock file.
  upgrade              Upgrades your dependencies to the latest version according to composer.json,
 and updates the composer.lock file.
  validate             Validates a composer.json and composer.lock.
  why                  Shows which packages cause the given package to be installed.
  why-not              Shows which packages prevent the given package from being installed.

Let's install the Yii framework:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

Installing yiisoft/yii2-app-basic (2.0.31)
  - Installing yiisoft/yii2-app-basic (2.0.31): Downloading (100%)         
Created project in basic
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
...
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
> yii\composer\Installer::postCreateProject
chmod('runtime', 0777)...done.
chmod('web/assets', 0777)...done.
chmod('yii', 0755)...done.
> yii\composer\Installer::postInstall 

Let's run it:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd basic/
[mythcat@desk basic]$ ./yii serve
Server started on http://localhost:8080/
Document root is "/home/mythcat/basic/web"
Quit the server with CTRL-C or COMMAND-C.
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:22 2020] [::1]:34072 [200]: /
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:22 2020] [::1]:34074 [200]: /assets/dd70c73/css/bootstrap.css
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:22 2020] [::1]:34076 [200]: /css/site.css
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:22 2020] [::1]:34078 [200]: /assets/afa8d426/jquery.js
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:22 2020] [::1]:34080 [200]: /assets/3235fb02/yii.js
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:22 2020] [::1]:34082 [200]: /assets/dd70c73/js/bootstrap.js
[Tue Jan 14 22:20:23 2020] [::1]:34084 [200]: /index.php?r=debug%2Fdefault%2Ftoolbar&tag=5e1e228626c18 

Fedora 31 : Can be better? part 004.

The common question of any Fedora Linux user: Can be better?.
Yes, we can fix some common errors...
This is a common error generated by the GTK on Fedora distro applications:

[mythcat@desk bin]$ ./studio.sh 

(java:12631): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:45:47.061: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(java:12631): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:45:47.061: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(java:12631): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:45:47.106: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
...

First, find the running GUI environment from the terminal:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
X-Cinnamon

This allows us to know that the issue may be a GTK theme package.

[root@desk bin]# dnf install gtk-murrine-engine.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:45:00 ago on Mon 06 Jan 2020 11:14:27 AM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
...
Installed:
  gtk-murrine-engine-0.98.2-17.fc31.x86_64                                      

Complete!

Now the Android Studio works well without warning errors:

[mythcat@desk bin]$ ./studio.sh 
Jan 06, 2020 12:00:51 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run
INFO: Created user preferences directory.
...

Fedora 31 : Install MongoDB on Fedora 31 distro.

Today I will show you how to install the MongoDB on Fedora 31 distro. MongoDB is a general-purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud.
You can see the source code for MongoDb at the GitHub website.
First, you need to create a repository file.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ su
Password: 
[root@desk mythcat]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo

Add the code for this repository file.

[mongodb-org-4.2]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/8Server/mongodb-org/testing/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc

Let's search this Fedora apckage with dnf tool

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf search mongodb-org
MongoDB Repository                                        5.8 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:01    
=========================== Name Exactly Matched: mongodb-org ============================
mongodb-org.x86_64 : MongoDB open source document-oriented database system (metapackage)
=============================== Name Matched: mongodb-org ================================
mongodb-org-shell.x86_64 : MongoDB shell client
mongodb-org-tools.x86_64 : MongoDB tools
mongodb-org-mongos.x86_64 : MongoDB sharded cluster query router
mongodb-org-server.x86_64 : MongoDB database server

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install mongodb-org.x86_64 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:46 ago on Fri 03 Jan 2020 05:27:49 PM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================
 Package                 Arch        Version                   Repository            Size
==========================================================================================
Installing:
 mongodb-org             x86_64      4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8         mongodb-org-4.2       10 k
Installing dependencies:
 mongodb-org-mongos      x86_64      4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8         mongodb-org-4.2       14 M
 mongodb-org-server      x86_64      4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8         mongodb-org-4.2       25 M
 mongodb-org-shell       x86_64      4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8         mongodb-org-4.2       17 M
 mongodb-org-tools       x86_64      4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8         mongodb-org-4.2       47 M

Transaction Summary
==========================================================================================
Install  5 Packages

Total download size: 103 M
Installed size: 260 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
...
 From       : https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
...
Installed:
  mongodb-org-4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8.x86_64        mongodb-org-mongos-4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8.x86_64
  mongodb-org-server-4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8.x86_64 mongodb-org-shell-4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8.x86_64 
  mongodb-org-tools-4.2.2-0.1.rc1.el8.x86_64 

Complete!

Start and enable MongoDB service to start on boot.

[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl start mongod
[root@desk mythcat]# sudo systemctl enable mongod
[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl status mongod
● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabl>
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-01-03 17:32:36 EET; 17s ago
     Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
 Main PID: 9019 (mongod)
   Memory: 71.0M
      CPU: 890ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service
           └─9019 /usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf

Jan 03 17:32:34 desk systemd[1]: Starting MongoDB Database Server...
Jan 03 17:32:34 desk mongod[9017]: about to fork child process, waiting until server is r>
Jan 03 17:32:34 desk mongod[9017]: forked process: 9019
Jan 03 17:32:36 desk mongod[9017]: child process started successfully, parent exiting
Jan 03 17:32:36 desk systemd[1]: Started MongoDB Database Server.
Jan 03 17:32:47 desk systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service:16: PIDFile= refe>
...

Use the netstat utility to confirm that indeed Mongod service is listening.

[root@desk mythcat]# netstat -pnltu | grep mongo
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:27017         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      9019/mongod

Create an admin user with elevated privileges to perform elevated tasks.

[root@desk mythcat]# mongo
MongoDB shell version v4.2.2-rc1
...
> use admin 
switched to db admin
> db.createUser(
...  {
...  user: "admin",
...  pwd: "123",
...  roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
...  }
...  )
Successfully added user: {
 "user" : "admin",
 "roles" : [
  {
   "role" : "userAdminAnyDatabase",
   "db" : "admin"
  }
 ]
}

Show the users:

> show users
{
 "_id" : "admin.admin",
 "userId" : UUID("5ca3a1c2-6225-4158-b2bc-e32e5e5de58f"),
 "user" : "admin",
 "db" : "admin",
 "roles" : [
  {
   "role" : "userAdminAnyDatabase",
   "db" : "admin"
  }
 ],
 "mechanisms" : [
  "SCRAM-SHA-1",
  "SCRAM-SHA-256"
 ]
}

To enable authentication edit the /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service file, under the [Service] section, locate and edit the Environment parameter as shown.

[root@desk mythcat]# vim /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service
...
[Unit]
Description=MongoDB Database Server
Documentation=https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
After=network.target

[Service]
User=mongod
Group=mongod
Environment="OPTIONS= --auth -f /etc/mongod.conf"
...

Apply the changes to the service mongo unit.

[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl daemon-reload
[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl restart mongod
[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl status mongod
● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: disable>
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-01-03 17:44:09 EET; 11s ago
     Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
  Process: 9272 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUC>
  Process: 9273 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown mongod:mongod /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, s>
  Process: 9274 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chmod 0755 /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/S>
  Process: 9275 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 9277 (mongod)
   Memory: 168.3M
      CPU: 1.423s
   CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service
           └─9277 /usr/bin/mongod --auth -f /etc/mongod.conf
...

Fedora 31 : Test Google locally Apps Script CLI.

The Apps Script CLI, or clasp, is a tool that lets you create, edit, and deploy Apps Script projects locally like Sheets, Docs, Forms, and Slides.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ mkdir google
[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd google
[mythcat@desk google]$ sudo dnf install nodejs
[sudo] password for mythcat: 
Last metadata expiration check: 2:03:50 ago on Fri 03 Jan 2020 11:37:12 AM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package          Arch        Version                        Repository    Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 nodejs           x86_64      1:12.13.1-1.fc31               updates      413 k
Installing dependencies:
 nodejs-libs      x86_64      1:12.13.1-1.fc31               updates       19 M
 npm              x86_64      1:6.12.1-1.12.13.1.1.fc31      updates      3.4 M
Installing weak dependencies:
 nodejs-docs      noarch      1:12.13.1-1.fc31               updates      2.4 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  4 Packages

Total download size: 25 M
Installed size: 132 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
...
Complete!

The clasp uses requires Node.js >= v6.0.0. Let's install it:

[mythcat@desk google]$ sudo npm install n -g
/usr/local/bin/n -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n/bin/n
+ n@6.1.3
added 1 package from 4 contributors in 0.705s
[mythcat@desk google]$ sudo n latest

  installing : node-v13.5.0
       mkdir : /usr/local/n/versions/node/13.5.0
       fetch : https://nodejs.org/dist/v13.5.0/node-v13.5.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
   installed : v13.5.0 (with npm 6.13.4)

Note: the node command changed location and the old location may be remembered in your 

current shell.
         old : /usr/bin/node
         new : /usr/local/bin/node
To reset the command location hash either start a new shell, or execute PATH="$PATH"
[mythcat@desk google]$ sudo npm i @google/clasp -g
/usr/local/bin/clasp -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@google/clasp/src/index.js
npm WARN inquirer-autocomplete-prompt@1.0.1 requires a peer of inquirer@^5.0.0 || 
^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

+ @google/clasp@2.3.0
added 191 packages from 118 contributors in 53.457s 

The simple run of clasp command shows us all arguments:

[mythcat@desk google]$ clasp
Usage: clasp  [options]

clasp - The Apps Script CLI

Options:
  -v, --version                               
  -h, --help                                  output usage information

Commands:
  login [options]                             Log in to script.google.com
  logout                                      Log out
  create [options]                            Create a script
  clone [options] [scriptId] [versionNumber]  Clone a project
  pull [options]                              Fetch a remote project
  push [options]                              Update the remote project
  status [options]                            Lists files that will be pushed by clasp
  open [options] [scriptId]                   Open a script
  deployments                                 List deployment ids of a script
  deploy [options]                            Deploy a project
  undeploy [options] [deploymentId]           Undeploy a deployment of a project
  version [description]                       Creates an immutable version of the script
  versions                                    List versions of a script
  list                                        List App Scripts projects
  logs [options]                              Shows the StackDriver logs
  run [options] [functionName]                Run a function in your Apps Scripts project
  apis [options]                              List, enable, or disable APIs
    list
    enable 
    disable 
  help                                        Display help
  setting|settings [settingKey] [newValue]    Update  in .clasp.json
  *                                           Any other command is not supported

You can log in with this command

[mythcat@desk google]$ clasp login
Logging in globally...
...

This will open a webpage for authentification and ends with this text message: Logged in! You may close this page.
Now you can create a new folder for your project named clasp_code.
Use this command and arrows key to select the type of the project:

[mythcat@desk clasp_code]$ clasp create --title "my first project with clasp";
? Create which script? (Use arrow keys)
❯ standalone 
  docs 
  sheets 
  slides 
  forms 
  webapp 
  api 
...
User has not enabled the Apps Script API. Enable it by visiting 

https://script.google.com/home/usersettings then retry. 

If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate 

to our systems and retry.

Open the URL to activate the API and run the command again to get the JSON file named appsscript.json.
You can clone an old project by script_ID.
Use this command into a new folder with the script_ID value from project menu File -> Project properties -> Info -> Script ID.
This will download the project in your current directory.

clasp clone script_ID 

To edit your project use this command:

[mythcat@desk clasp_code]$ clasp open

The next step is to pull and push operations:

[mythcat@desk clasp_code]$ clasp pull
Warning: files in subfolder are not accounted for unless you set a '.claspignore' file.
Cloned 2 files.
└─ appsscript.json
└─ Code.js
[mythcat@desk clasp_code]$ clasp push
└─ Code.js
└─ appsscript.json
Pushed 2 files.

The clasp allows you to manage versions and deployments with these commands:

[mythcat@desk clasp_code]$ clasp version "First version"
Created version 1.
[mythcat@desk clasp_code]$ clasp deploy 1 "First deployment"
Created version 2.

For more information see the GitHub webpage.

Fedora 31 : The VLC zoom effect!

Zoom, zoom ... zoom
This is not the only effect from the VLC application you can set more.
If you want to use the zoom effect when you play movies with VLC software then use these settings:
Tools -> Effects and Filters (Ctr +E) -> Video Effects -> Interactive Zoom
See the next images:

Fedora 31 : Run Minecraft game on Fedora distro.

To install and play the Minecraft game you need to install Java both versions JRE and JDK.
You need to buy or use only redeem codes from Minecraft Java Edition.

[root@desk mythcat]# cd minecraft-launcher/
[root@desk minecraft-launcher]# dnf install java-latest-openjdk
[root@desk minecraft-launcher]# dnf install java-latest-openjdk-devel

The game can download it from here.
I download the Minecraft.tar.gz file and I unarchive into my folder named minecraft-launcher.
After that I run this command to play the game:

[mythcat@desk minecraft-launcher]$ ./minecraft-launcher 
which: no java in (/home/mythcat/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/home/mythcat/.local/bin
:/home/mythcat/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin)
...

Fedora 31 : Install Google Chrome.

Most Linux distributions come with dedicated browsers or Firefox browser.
But if you want to use Google services like Google Optimize then you will need Google Chrome browser.
Today I will show you how to install it in the Linux distribution Fedora 31.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf install https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
[sudo] password for mythcat: 
Last metadata expiration check: 2:29:06 ago on Thu 26 Dec 2019 07:54:58 PM EET.
google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm              16 MB/s |  59 MB     00:03    
Dependencies resolved.
====================================================================================
 Package                   Arch        Version              Repository         Size
====================================================================================
Installing:
 google-chrome-stable      x86_64      79.0.3945.88-1       @commandline       59 M
Installing dependencies:
 liberation-fonts          noarch      1:2.00.5-6.fc31      fedora            8.4 k

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total size: 60 M
Total download size: 8.4 k
Installed size: 210 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
...
Installed:
  google-chrome-stable-79.0.3945.88-1.x86_64                                        
  liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-6.fc31.noarch                                           

Complete!

You can start it with this commands:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ google-chrome
google-chrome         google-chrome-stable 

Fedora 31 : Start with tito tool.

If you have some Fedora related project and you want to your output an RPM package, then you can use the tito tool.
This tool comes with the version 0.6.12 and today is finally out!
The team of this software comes with this intro:
Tito is a tool for managing RPM based projects using git for their source code repository.
Let's install it:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf search tito
Last metadata expiration check: 1:52:16 ago on Fri 20 Dec 2019 06:10:02 PM EET.
========================== Name Exactly Matched: tito ==========================
tito.noarch : A tool for managing rpm based git projects
============================ Summary Matched: tito =============================
mtdev.x86_64 : Multitouch Protocol Translation Library
mtdev.i686 : Multitouch Protocol Translation Library
mtdev-devel.i686 : Multitouch Protocol Translation Library Development Package
mtdev-devel.x86_64 : Multitouch Protocol Translation Library Development Package
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install tito.noarch 
...
Complete!
[root@desk mythcat]# systemctl daemon-reload 

Let's see the arguments of this tool:

[mythcat@desk django]$ tito
Usage: tito MODULENAME --help
Supported modules:
   build    - Build packages.
   init     - Initialize directory for use by tito.
   release  - Build and release to yum repos
   report   - Display various reports on the repo.
   tag      - Tag package releases.

Before you use this tool you need to have these folders into your project folder:

docs/
mypackage.spec
README
.tito/
src/
test/

Let's try to use it with my old django project in the directory with the git checkout of your project.

[mythcat@desk projects]$ cd django/
[mythcat@desk django]$ tito init
Creating tito metadata in: /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito
   - created /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito
   - wrote tito.props
   - created /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito/packages
   - wrote /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito/packages/.readme
   - committed to git
Done!

This creates a .tito folder.
Now I can create my .spec file named django_project.spec:

%if 0%{?rhel} > 7 || 0%{?fedora}
%global use_python3 1
%global use_python2 0
%global ourpythonbin %{__python3}
%global our_sitelib %{python3_sitelib}
%else
%global use_python3 0
%global use_python2 1
%if 0%{?__python2:1}
%global ourpythonbin %{__python2}
%global our_sitelib %{python2_sitelib}
%else
%global ourpythonbin %{__python}
%global our_sitelib %{our_sitelib}
%endif
%endif
%{!?our_sitelib: %define our_sitelib %(%{ourpythonbin} -c "from distutils.sysconfig 
import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}

Name: django_chart
Version: 0.0.2
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: A tool for managing rpm based git projects

License: GPLv2
URL: https://github.com/catafest/django_chart
Source0: https://github.com/catafest/django_chart/archive/django_chart-%{version}-1.tar.gz

BuildArch: noarch
%if %{use_python3}
BuildRequires: python3-devel
BuildRequires: python3-setuptools
Requires: python3-setuptools
Requires: python3-bugzilla
Requires: python3-blessings
Requires: rpm-python3
%else
BuildRequires: python2-devel
BuildRequires: python-setuptools
Requires: python-setuptools
Requires: python-bugzilla
Requires: python-blessings
Requires: rpm-python
%endif
BuildRequires: asciidoc
BuildRequires: docbook-style-xsl
BuildRequires: libxslt
BuildRequires: rpmdevtools
BuildRequires: rpm-build
BuildRequires: tar
BuildRequires: which

%if 0%{?fedora}
# todo: add %%check to spec file in accordance with
# https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Testing_in_check
BuildRequires: git
BuildRequires: python-bugzilla
BuildRequires: python3-devel
BuildRequires: python3-setuptools
BuildRequires: python3-bugzilla
BuildRequires: rpm-python3
%endif

Requires: rpm-build
Requires: rpmlint
Requires: fedpkg
Requires: fedora-packager
Requires: rpmdevtools
# Cheetah used not to exist for Python 3, but it's what Mead uses.  We
# install it and call via the command line instead of importing the
# previously potentially incompatible code, as we have not yet got
# around to changing this
Requires: /usr/bin/cheetah

%description
django_chart is a project for managing chart with django 
git.

%prep
# the weird directory name is because github makes the directory name
# '(projectname)-(tag)', and the tags for django_chart have 'django_chart' in them and
# '-1' on the end...
%setup -q -n django_chart-django_chart-%{version}-1
sed -i 1"s|#!.*|#!%{ourpythonbin}|" bin/django_chart

%build
%{ourpythonbin} setup.py build
# convert manages
a2x -d manpage -f manpage django_chartrc.5.asciidoc
a2x -d manpage -f manpage django_chart.8.asciidoc
a2x -d manpage -f manpage django_chart.props.5.asciidoc
a2x -d manpage -f manpage releasers.conf.5.asciidoc

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{ourpythonbin} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{our_sitelib}/*egg-info/requires.txt
# manpages
%{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man5
%{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man8
cp -a django_chartrc.5 django_chart.props.5 releasers.conf.5 %{buildroot}/%{_mandir}/man5/
cp -a django_chart.8 %{buildroot}/%{_mandir}/man8/
# bash completion facilities
install -Dp -m 0644 share/django_chart_completion.sh %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/
django_chart


%files
%doc AUTHORS COPYING
%doc doc/*
%doc %{_mandir}/man5/django_chartrc.5*
%doc %{_mandir}/man5/django_chart.props.5*
%doc %{_mandir}/man5/releasers.conf.5*
%doc %{_mandir}/man8/django_chart.8*
%{_bindir}/django_chart
%{_bindir}/generate-patches.pl
%{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/django_chart
%dir %{our_sitelib}/django_chart
%{our_sitelib}/django_chart/*
%{our_sitelib}/django_chart-*.egg-info


%changelog
* Fri Dec 20 2019 catafest  0.0.2-1
- new package built with tito

* Fri Dec 20 2019 Catalin George Festila  0.6.12-1

If your git checkout has multiple projects/packages go to that directory from which you are creating tar.gz otherwise stay in your git root.

[mythcat@desk django]$ tito tag --debug
Creating output directory: /tmp/tito
Importing tito.tagger.VersionTagger
Using tagger class: 
Looking for .spec in /home/mythcat/projects/django
Using file: django_project.spec
Looking for .spec in /home/mythcat/projects/django
Using file: django_project.spec
Command: rpm --eval '%scl'
Status code: 0
Command output: %scl

Command: rpm -q --qf '%{name}
'  --eval '%undefine scl' --specfile /home/mythcat/projects/django/django_project.spec 2> /dev/null | 
grep -e '^$' -v | head -1
Status code: 0
Command output: django_chart

Command: git config --get user.name
Status code: 0
Command output: catafest

Command: git config --get user.email
Status code: 0
Command output: catalinfest@gmail.com

Getting latest package info from: /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito/packages/django_chart
Getting latest package info from: /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito/packages/django_chart
Command: rpm -q --qf '%{version}-%{release}
' --define "_sourcedir /home/mythcat/projects/django" --define 'dist %undefined' --specfile 
/home/mythcat/projects/django/django_project.spec 2> /dev/null | grep -e '^$' -v | head -1
Status code: 0
Command output: 0.0.2-1

Tagging new version of django_chart: untagged -> 0.0.2-1
Cargo.toml file not found, this is probably not a Rust project
No destination version file found, skipping.
Command: git add /home/mythcat/projects/django/.tito/packages/django_chart
Status code: 0
Command output: 

Command: git add /home/mythcat/projects/django/django_project.spec
Status code: 0
Command output: 

Command: git commit -m 'Automatic commit of package [django_chart] release [0.0.2-1].' -m 
'Created by command:' -m '/usr/bin/tito tag --debug'
Status code: 0
Command output: [master 3b2d812] Automatic commit of package [django_chart] release [0.0.2-1].
 2 files changed, 126 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .tito/packages/django_chart
 create mode 100644 django_project.spec

Command: git tag -m "Tagging package [django_chart] version [django_chart-0.0.2-1] in directory 
[./]." django_chart-0.0.2-1
Status code: 0
Command output: 

Created tag: django_chart-0.0.2-1
   View: git show HEAD
   Undo: tito tag -u
   Push: git push --follow-tags origin

Use the git tool for push:

git push && git push origin some-tag-1.0

If you do not want to push it to a remote repository, you must add to the following commands option --offline.

[mythcat@desk django]$ tito build --tgz [--offline]
[mythcat@desk django]$ tito build --srpm [--offline]
[mythcat@desk django]$ tito build --rpm [--offline]

This last command execute all previous steps in one and call rpmbuild on that SRPM file which will produce binary rpm package.

Fedora 31 : Can be better? part 003.

Yes! The Fedora distro Linux can be better.
One bad problem for most Fedora users is video drivers.
I have an old NVIDIA graphic card: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2).
This worked well with the nouveau device driver.
It will be great if the detection and install of the video graphic card will start from the installation process.
Another option is to have a dedicated opensource software for detection and installation of the video card.