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 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…
I have recorded the newest version of my update script in Fedora 41. I show you the first steps how I find it with the history command. Today there are no updates. The video has length about 1:26 minutes.
Important: I have only tested with png files. Other important notes: You have to install the programs tesseract and pandoc for this script. What is tesseract? A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. The website of tesseract. What is pandoc? This package provides a command-line executable that uses the pandoc library to convert…
I used in the past the MySQL Workbench as a stand-alone program in my Fedora desktop. But after a while the distribution did not support the Workbench directly. It could only install it via snap. But in snap you have the problem, that this service produces a lot of log entries into a file in /var/log/messages* so you had to delete this big files after a while. The other solution was to use the MySQL workbench as a plugin in…