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 have published my shutdown Bash script on GitHub. The new thing in the script, the deletion of the content in the rubbish of Fedora 41. You find the link here.
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…
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…