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Monday, November 4, 2019

Fedora 30 : How to remove packages without dependency.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to remove packages without dependency.
I have this software named freecad.x86_64 and I want to remove it.
If I use the dnf tool then I got this output:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf remove freecad.x86_64 
Dependencies resolved.
==============================================================================
 Package                       Arch   Version                  Repo      Size
==============================================================================
Removing:
 freecad                       x86_64 1:0.18.3-5.fc30.1        @updates 141 M
Removing unused dependencies:
 Coin3                         x86_64 3.1.3-24.fc30            @fedora   11 M
 OCE-foundation                x86_64 0.18.3-4.fc30            @fedora   11 M
 OCE-modeling                  x86_64 0.18.3-4.fc30            @fedora   58 M
 OCE-ocaf                      x86_64 0.18.3-4.fc30            @fedora   11 M
 OCE-visualization             x86_64 0.18.3-4.fc30            @fedora  6.7 M
 SoQt                          x86_64 1.5.0-26.fc30            @fedora  1.0 M
 assimp                        x86_64 3.3.1-19.fc30            @fedora  9.7 M
 boost-python3                 x86_64 1.69.0-8.fc30            @updates 473 k
 dotconf                       x86_64 1.3-20.fc30              @fedora   61 k
 espeak-ng                     x86_64 1.49.2-6.fc30            @fedora  6.6 M
...

The package is from Nightly FreeCAD, you can enable it if you want to install later:

[root@desk mythcat]# sudo dnf copr enable @freecad/nightly

To solve this issue you need to change this file:

[root@desk mythcat]# vim /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

From clean_requirements_on_remove=True to clean_requirements_on_remove=False.
The next commands will fix and remove the package:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf clean all
86 files removed
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf remove freecad.x86_64 
Dependencies resolved.
==============================================================================
 Package            Architecture Version                 Repository      Size
==============================================================================
Removing:
 freecad            x86_64       1:0.18.3-5.fc30.1       @updates       141 M
Removing dependent packages:
 freecad-data       noarch       1:0.18.3-5.fc30.1       @updates       194 M

Transaction Summary
==============================================================================
Remove  2 Packages

Freed space: 335 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 
...

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Fedora 30 : Introduction to Qt Designer.

Qt Designer is the Qt tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets... see the Qt Designer manual webpage.

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install qt5-designer.x86_64
...
Installed:
  qt5-designer-5.12.5-1.fc30.x86_64                                             
  qt5-qttools-libs-designercomponents-5.12.5-1.fc30.x86_64                      

Complete!

Let's start this tool with this command:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ designer-qt5

Follow this video tutorial from my youtube channel:

You can preview your work with Ctrl+R keys.
After you finish with the project then save the file with this name: mytest.ui.
The next command to create your working python file named mytest.py.
Use this command with the -x option creates the main section to the my.py file that will allow us to test quickly whether the GUI looks as we intended.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ pyuic5 -x  mytest.ui -o mytest.py

Now you can run it to see the output:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ python3  mytest.py

Fedora 30 : About Simple Screen Recorder tool.

The Simple Screen Recorder tool can be easily installed on Fedora 30 and provide a GUI interface for recording screen with audio input. Use the dnf tool to install it:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install simplescreenrecorder.x86_64
...
Installed:
  simplescreenrecorder-0.3.11-7.fc30.x86_64                                   

Complete!

I used the LXDE Desktop Environment, see the command to identify the running desktop environment:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
LXDE

The tool can be found on Fedora main menu: Sound & Video, see the screenshot:

The tool start with this windows screen, you need to press the Continue button:

The next steps comes with configuration area for your video recorder.
I set and save my new Input profile to record an screen area.
You can use a rectangle, change the size from left to right or select the window to define the area for record video.
I change the Audio input to use my microphone.

The next step let you to set the file , video and audio settings for output. I let all with default settings.

The last step let you to see informations , preview and set the hotkeys.
I can use keyboard to start and stop recorder.

Saturday, November 2, 2019

Fedora 30 : GIMP 2.10.14 with flatpak.

Flatpak is a software utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. see Wikipedia .
Flatpak builds available in i386, x86-64, ARM and AArch64.

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install flatpak.x86_64 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:27:27 ago on Fri 01 Nov 2019 11:27:47 PM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
...
Installed:
  flatpak-1.4.3-1.fc30.x86_64                                                   
  p11-kit-server-0.23.16.1-1.fc30.x86_64                                        
  xdg-desktop-portal-1.4.2-1.fc30.x86_64                                        
  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64                                    
  flatpak-selinux-1.4.3-1.fc30.x86_64                                           
  flatpak-session-helper-1.4.3-1.fc30.x86_64                                    
  ostree-libs-2019.4-3.fc30.x86_64                                              

Complete!

The install and run of last GIMP software is easy, see commands:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref

Note that the directories 

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/mythcat/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so applications installed by 
Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.

Required runtime for org.gimp.GIMP/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.32) found in remote
 flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: Y       

org.gimp.GIMP permissions:
    ipc                   network        x11       file access [1]
    dbus access [2]       tags [3]

    [1] /tmp, host, xdg-config/GIMP, xdg-config/gtk-3.0
    [2] org.freedesktop.FileManager1, org.gtk.vfs, org.gtk.vfs.*
    [3] stable
        ID                                    Arch   Branch Remote  Download
        ID                                    Arch   Branch Remote  Download
 1. [✓] org.gnome.Platform                    x86_64 3.32   flathub 360.0 MB / 374.0 MB
 2. [✓] org.gnome.Platform.Locale             x86_64 3.32   flathub  17.4 kB / 320.0 MB
 3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel  x86_64 18.08  flathub   1.8 MB / 1.8 MB
 4. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs x86_64 18.08  flathub   3.2 MB / 3.3 MB
 5. [✓] org.gimp.GIMP                         x86_64 stable flathub 106.5 MB / 108.9 MB

Installation complete.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ flatpak update

Note that the directories 

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/mythcat/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.

Looking for updates…
Nothing to do.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable

Note that the directories 

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/mythcat/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.

GIMP-Error: Skipping '/home/mythcat/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/2.10/pluginrc
wrong GIMP protocol version.
...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Fedora 30 : 8 Gb RAM to my old hardware.

I add another DDR3 memory RAM to my hardware for Fedora distro Linux version 30.
I will try to find a CPU gen2 for 1155 socket because is an old CPU.
This is a part of fpaste command output:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo fpaste --sysinfo --printonly 
=== fpaste 0.4.0.1 System Information (fpaste --sysinfo) ===
* OS Release (cat /etc/*-release | uniq):
     Fedora release 30 (Thirty)
     NAME=Fedora
     VERSION="30 (Server Edition)"
     ID=fedora
     VERSION_ID=30
     VERSION_CODENAME=""
... 
* Kernel (uname -r ; cat /proc/cmdline):
     5.3.7-200.fc30.x86_64
* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
     LXDE, openbox
     
* SELinux Status (sestatus):
     SELinux status:                 enabled
     SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
     SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
     Loaded policy name:             targeted
     Current mode:                   enforcing
     Mode from config file:          enforcing
     Policy MLS status:              enabled
     Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
     Memory protection checking:     actual (secure)
     Max kernel policy version:      31
     
* SELinux Errors (without results: "selinuxenabled && journalctl --since yesterday |grep avc: | grep 
-Eo comm="[^ ]+" | sort |uniq -c |sort -rn"):
     N/A

* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
         sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
     2  Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1620 @ 2.70GHz
     
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
     Yes
     
* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
     Yes
     
* Load average (uptime):
      21:42:37 up  2:46,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.60, 0.90
     
* Memory usage (free -m):
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
     Mem:           9694        2641        5422         189        1631        6605
     Swap:          3563           0        3563
     
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=3629' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
         1000  2306 20.8  4.4 3620080 444832 ?      Sl   21:05   7:39 firefox
         1000  3497 17.2  0.0  16304  5284 pts/0    Ss   21:41   0:11 bash
         1000  2590 10.2  3.9 2825496 392932 ?      Sl   21:07   3:34 Web Content
         1000  2362  9.5  4.8 3206080 480436 ?      Sl   21:05   3:30 Web Content
         1000  2801  5.4  4.4 2989744 437088 ?      Sl   21:12   1:38 Web Content
     
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
         1000  2362  9.5  4.8 3206080 480436 ?      Sl   21:05   3:30 Web Content
         1000  2468  3.1  4.6 2986868 466524 ?      Sl   21:05   1:09 Web Content
         1000  2801  5.4  4.4 2989744 437088 ?      Sl   21:12   1:38 Web Content
         1000  2306 20.8  4.4 3620080 444832 ?      Sl   21:05   7:39 firefox
         1000  2590 10.2  3.9 2825496 392932 ?      Sl   21:07   3:34 Web Content
...
* GL Support (glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer"):
     OpenGL renderer string: NVA8
     OpenGL version string: 3.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 19.1.7
     
* Xorg errors (without results: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
 | cut -d ':' -f 2- "):
     N/A
   
* DNF Repositories (dnf repolist):
     repo id                     repo name                                     status
     *fedora                     Fedora 30 - x86_64                            56,582
     *fedora-modular             Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64                       135
     *rpmfusion-free             RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free                  616
     *rpmfusion-free-updates     RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free - Updates        290
     *rpmfusion-nonfree          RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree               227
     *rpmfusion-nonfree-updates  RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree - Updates      68
     *updates                    Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates                  13,734
     *updates-modular            Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 - Updates             144
     
...
* EFI boot manager output (without results: "efibootmgr -v"):
     N/A

My test performance with octane.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Fedora 30 : News about python 3.8.0 and install on Linux.

The new release of python development comes today.
You can see on the official webpage the new versions of Python 3.7.5 Oct. 15, 2019 and Python 3.8.0 Oct. 14, 2019.
I wrote about how to install version 3.8.0 on Fedora 30.
See the full tutorial here.

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Fedora 30 : The paris-traceroute tool.

Today I tested two Linux tools named:paris-traceroute. This tool can be install with dnf tool. This tool named paris-traceroute was implemented by Xavier Cuvellier. Debugged and enhanced by Brice Augustin. The techniques invented by the authors of Paris-traceroute to enumerate the paths of ECMP flow-based load balancing. I used the 8.8.8.8 address to test this tool.

[root@desk mythcat]# paris-traceroute 8.8.8.8 -p icmp
...
[root@desk mythcat]# paris-traceroute 8.8.8.8 -i
...
[root@desk mythcat]# paris-traceroute 8.8.8.8 -l
...

Using the verbose mode the tool will print debug messages:

[root@desk mythcat]# paris-traceroute 8.8.8.8 -v
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 222)dst_addr = 8.8.8.8
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 340)protocol     = udp
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 341)src_add      = 
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 342)dst_addr     = 8.8.8.8
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 343)ttl_initial  = 1
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 344)ttl_max      = 30
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 345)tos          = 0
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 346)probe_length = 0
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 347)algo         = hopbyhop
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 348)timeout      = 5000
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 349)delay        = 50
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 350)max_try      = 3
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 351)max_missing  = 3
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 352)id_initial   = 1
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 353)resolve      = true
[DEBUG](Options.cc, 354)ipid         = false
[DEBUG](Util.cc, 246)p_proto = 1
[INFO](Server.cc, 216)waiting for the first packet..

[INFO](TracertImpl.cc, 48)HopByHop algo
[INFO](TracertImpl.cc, 183)Send probe, ttl=1, id=1
[DEBUG](UDPProbe.cc, 247)==> UDP Probe :
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 346)IP4 header :
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 347)tos                = 0
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 348)total_length       = 30
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 349)ttl                = 1
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 350)protocol           = 17
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 353)source_address     = 
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 355)dest_address       = 8.8.8.8
[DEBUG](UDPHeader.cc, 143)UDP header :
[DEBUG](UDPHeader.cc, 144)source_port        = 
[DEBUG](UDPHeader.cc, 145)dest_port          = 
[DEBUG](UDPHeader.cc, 146)datagram_length    = 10
[DEBUG](UDPHeader.cc, 147)checksum           = 12584
[DEBUG](UDPProbe.cc, 250)Data :
[DEBUG]0x01 0x00 
[DEBUG]0x45 0x00 0x00 0x1e 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 
[DEBUG]0x01 0x11 0x00 0x00 0xc0 0xa8 0x00 0x8f 
[DEBUG]0x08 0x08 0x08 0x08 0x82 0xb0 0x82 0xb1 
[DEBUG]0x00 0x0a 0x28 0x31 0x01 0x00 
[INFO](Server.cc, 276)Captured first packet!

[DEBUG](Server.cc, 280)Incoming message :
[DEBUG](Server.cc, 281)parsing.. ef72baa0 58
[DEBUG]0x45 0xc0 0x00 0x3a 0x5c 0xcd 0x00 0x00 
[DEBUG]0x40 0x01 0x9b 0x55 0xc0 0xa8 0x00 0x01 
[DEBUG]0xc0 0xa8 0x00 0x8f 0x0b 0x00 0xc6 0x62 
[DEBUG]0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x45 0x00 0x00 0x1e 
[DEBUG]0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x11 0xe8 0x87 
[DEBUG]0xc0 0xa8 0x00 0x8f 0x08 0x08 0x08 0x08 
[DEBUG]0x82 0xb0 0x82 0xb1 0x00 0x0a 0x28 0x31 
[DEBUG]0x01 0x00 
[DEBUG](Server.cc, 285)Incoming message parsed :
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 346)IP4 header :
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 347)tos                = 192
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 348)total_length       = 58
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 349)ttl                = 64
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 350)protocol           = 1
[DEBUG](IP4Header.cc, 353)source_address     = 
...

You can see more about this tool here. Another tool is dublin-traceroute works like paris-traceroute but introduces a new technique for NAT detection ( this is not in the Fedora repo).

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