I actually wanted to upgrade to Fedora 43 today, which is technically possible, but there was a problem with the MySQL database. I am using a manually installed, older version of MySQL (probably the 9.2 repo version, which was a mistake). That was a tip from a contact on LinkedIn back then. The installation worked without any problems. But now, when downloading the files, I got a message saying that the server could not be found. Yesterday evening, there was…
Today Fedora 43 has reached the light of the world and I do backups of my data to the external drive. I do this every time before a dist-upgrade. Not only for security reason but because of there were so many files that can save on the external drive after a long time. Here is a view of the data transfer with the nautilus file explorer that I have installed in Gnome.
I saw news on the portal phoronix that the planned release of the new version 43 will appear in the next week. As many of you know, I use Python for several projects, mainly for database connections and data analysis. What is Fedora? While ‚Fedora‘ commonly refers to a hat worn on the head, here it denotes a Linux 🐧️ distribution—an alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows or Apple macOS. There are some groups in the distributions overview. Fedora is…
A repo file is a text file that contains instructions for the operating system (Linux, the Bash) where to find the newest information about a package. In contrast to operating systems like Microsoft Windows, where you download and install software directly from a variety of sources, Linux distributions rely on these central repositories. This structure allows the distribution maintainers to check and verify the packages for stability and security before they reach your system. 🚩️ Warning: While you can install…
Ich habe für meine täglichen Updates auf der Kommandozeile mir ein kleines Script geschrieben. Ich habe als Root geschrieben und mehrmals durchgetestet. Es funktioniert auch. Das Script: Erst wird das aktuelle Datum abgefragt und in der Variable „datum“ abgespeichert. Mit dem Befehl echo wird ein Text ausgegeben und dann so ist es im Shellscripting mit einem Dollarzeichen und der Variable ausgegeben. Um einen Absatz einzufügen habe ich ein wortloses echo eingeführt. Danach wird der Festplattenspeicher abgefragt. Der Befehl df -h…