FYI: Helper tool "lockdev-redirect" for redirecting /var/lock access

2020-12-23 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I thought maybe some people here may be interested in a tool that I primarily developed for my studies where I have to use MATLAB and Simulink to program an Arduino board. Trying to access the Arduino serial port caused me trouble because of missing write access to /var/lock. Of cours

How to tell how a package was installed?

2020-01-01 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I've freshly installed an Fedora VM. If I run "dnf history userinstalled", then I only get 19 packages listed. That's way less than I would have expected. For example I have LibreOffice right with my fresh installation. It is not listed as "userinstalled". Even though it is not liste

Re: How to fix "dnf autoremove" on my system?

2019-12-24 Thread Manuel Reimer
On 23.12.19 22:52, Samuel Sieb wrote: Why do you think your package database is corrupted?  If it's because of this autoremove issue, then you don't really have a problem. What I want to do is to clean up my installed packages. I want to get rid of packages that have been left in the past whil

How to fix "dnf autoremove" on my system?

2019-12-23 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I seem to be one of the users who has a somewhat "corrupted" package database. The system has been only upgraded so far and was initially installed with "yum". If I run "autoremove", then I get the following (long) list where surely not everything can be removed. Can someone pleas