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…
Today about This is a valid blog article for the Red-Family users and other distributions that uses the DNF tool for the package management. DNF stands for Dandified Yum, and it is the newer packager manager for the „old“ yum command. It was born on 11.05.2015. The current version is 5.2.17.0 that appeared on 02.09.2025. On my current Fedora (41), I use the version 5.2.16.0. dnf info Search for information about a package, what you have installed. Here is an…
2 hours troubleshooting in my AlmaLinux 9.6 system on my notebook. I only tried to update the Python package PyGObject. I could not update this package via pip install -U PyGObject to the current version: PyGObject 3.52.3 I got the error message: pip install -U PyGObject Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writable Requirement already satisfied: PyGObject in /usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages (3.40.1) Collecting PyGObject Downloading pygobject-3.54.3.tar.gz (1.3 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.3/1.3 MB 9.6 MB/s 0:00:00 Installing…
Durch das Erscheinen von Fedora 31 ist der Lebenszyklus von Fedora 29 auch Ende November 2019 zu Ende. Da ich nächste Woche meinen Python-Kurs habe, komme ich am Samstag oder am Sonntag nicht dazu, also habe ich das eine Woche früher gemacht. Fedora 30 ist auch die letzte Version, die ich auf diesem Rechner installiere. 4 GB RAM sind einfach zu wenig. Es sei denn, ich würde noch RAM Bausteine finden. Das Mainboard kann 8 GB vertragen. Aber es ist…
Now I have installed Fedora 26 on my hard drive. But this time it was a hard way. I wanted to upgrade my disk space from 320 GB to 1 TB (with a new hard drive). My motherboard supports only SATA II and the hard drive is SATA III. I have built in the new hard drive instead of the old one into my pc case and connected to the motherboard. First I wanted to install directly Fedora 27 from…