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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Fedora 39 : First test with C# and Terminal.Gui.templates.

The current, stable, release of Terminal.Gui is v1.x. It is stable, rich, and broadly used. The team is now focused on designing and building a significant upgrade we're referring to as v2.
You can find it on this GitHub project.
$ dotnet new --install Terminal.Gui.templates
$ dotnet new tui -n test001
$ cd test001
$ dotnet run

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Fedora 39 : Install and fix error with dotnet and copr.

Copr is an easy-to-use automatic build system providing a package repository as its output.
Free/Open source software that is harder to include in Fedora (usually because it is developed in a way that makes it difficult to package while implementing the Fedora packaging guidelines) is temporarily provided in an extra COPR repository, see the official webpage.
I tried to install dotnet following a tutorial on Fedora Magazine:
# dnf copr enable @dotnet-sig/dotnet
I obviously received errors related to copr, because is not install and I used Fedora 39, since Fedora 39 is still Rawhide.
I try to install copr with dnf5:
# dnf5 install copr
I got some errors on python-request-2.28.2-2.fc39.noarch conflicts with new one requested by dnf5 and I remove this package and I let to install the new one.
I try again with same command:
# dnf5 install copr
The next command was:
$ sudo dnf copr enable @dotnet-sig/dotnet fedora-38-x86_64
This allow me to use fedora-38-x86_64 and warn me about copr.
Enabling a Copr repository. Please note that this repository is not part
of the main distribution, and quality may vary ...
The last one is to install .NET Core:
# dnf5 install dotnet
This install all packages for .NET Core with SDK version 6.0 .
I tested with a simple project:
$ dotnet new console -o mythcat_console
$ cd mythcat_console
$ dotnet run 
Hello, World!
This is the way that can use Fedora packages with copr.

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Fedora 39 : Solve copy-paste in VirtualBox.

I'm using the Fedora 39 Linux distribution on an HP laptop and I also have it installed on a VirtualBox on my work computer. Today I will show you a way to solve copy paste between content on your computer and Fedora 39 on VirtualBox.
This requires Virtual Box to be set to bridge network as in the attached image.
The next step is to have the Cockpit tool installed, see instructions here.
Open the web address created by the Cockpit tool in your computer browser and go to the Terminal section. This way you will be able to transfer text content using your computer's browser and not the VirtualBox settings.
See the next image:

Monday, July 10, 2023

News : About my work and one of my websites.

I would like to bring to the attention of those who follow my activity on my websites and appreciate the inability to continue with one of the websites: free-tutorials.org. It is currently hosted on a free host, but I cannot import it 100%, which has led me not to complete it with new posts. The continuation of the activities there, considering the limited time, will be carried out on my blogs with the defined theme with which I started: Linux - Fedora, Graphics, Python, Pygame.
In the meantime, because the host is expensive and until now someone has helped me to host it on his server, it is possible to sell the domain: free-tutorials.org - I receive purchase offers at my personal Yahoo email address catafest@yahoo.com.
Minimum starting price 250 euros, because the domain is old from 2018.

Saturday, July 8, 2023

Fedora 39 : DNF5 error update.

Sometimes errors may occur when installing Fedora packages using the dnf or dnf5 utility. One of the reasons may result from the coincidence of the package installation process. If you know how to build packages, how to develop the Fedora team, and how many repositories you have set up in your Linux distribution, then such an error can be easily fixed. Here is the error:
First, install the dnf5 and dnf5-plugins with this command:
sudo dnf install dnf5 dnf5-plugins
One good way to fix error is to have defined settings in : /etc/dnf/dnf.conf in order to have a good installation flow and how to link packages to the interconnected job.
See my example that fix this error:
Some packages may conflict in the repo and you can check with the dnf info fedora_repo_package command.
For example, you can use exclude=*.noarch in the [main] area.

Monday, June 26, 2023

News : The new DNF5 tool is on Fedora .

The new DNF5 will provide a significant improvement in user experiences and performance. The replacement is the second step in upgrade of Fedora Software Management stack. Without the change there will be multiple software management tool (DNF5, old Microdnf, PackageKit, and DNF) based on different libraries (libdnf, libdnf5), providing a different behavior, and not sharing a history and module state. We can also expect that DNF will have only limited support from upstream. The DNF5 development was announced on Fedora-Devel list in 2020.
You can read more on the official webpage on Fedora area.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Fedora 39 : GNOME new version 44.2 .

The GNOME Project proudly announced today the release and general availability of the GNOME 44 desktop environment series, a major update that brings several new features and lots of improvements.
You can read more on the official website.
You can see a first version 44 on this youtube video: