As you may know, Fedora KDE 41 was released a couple of weeks ago.
I wanted to talk about a special feature that our colleague @farchord (with support from upstream developer @Nate Graham) has brought to our Fedora KDE distribution:
Enabling Third Party Repositories With A Single Click!
Thanks to the flexibility of plasma-welcome we can offer this feature 🙂
Right after installing Fedora and on first login you will be presented with the Plasma Welcome window:
Before you click on Skip , you can go through the different slides to read about KDE and Fedora and also to decide whether you want to contribute with anonymous metrics or not (note: I personally do not):
Here is where the interesting part comes in, on the next slide:
With a simple click of a button you will enable the most commonly requested by our users Third Party Repositories like rpmfusion! (note: you will be asked for your administrator password)
Once the request is processed, the message will change to:
That’s it! You have successfully enabled Third Party Repositories without needing to modify any file or running any command whatsoever 🙂
Before you do anything with your system and your new configuration, I will strongly recommend to update your system via Plasma Discover :
Proceed with all the update and reboot to get the latest and shiniest from our repositories.
Finally, to verify that the Third Party software is available, you can check:
A bit of context/history: for those of you who follow Nate’s blog you might already know what I am talking about. Thanks to the awesome work done by aleasto on this MR, we closed this bug.
There are, of course, a few quirks to solve but essentially it works.
The @kdesig team has enabled a COPR repository for those who want to help us test the upgrades from F37 to F38.
BIG FAT WARNING: Fedora 38 is still in BETA
I will now explain shorty what are the steps you need to follow to perform the upgrade via Discover:
Now open Discover, go to the Update tab, click on Refresh and eventually on Update All:
Click on Restart Now to trigger the installation of our patched discover
Once you reboot, open Discover again and after a few seconds click on Upgrade to Fedora Linux 38:
Switch to the Update tab and wait until the progress bar finishes. Finally click on Update All:
Now be patient as many packages will need to be downloaded. When it finishes, you will be asked for your password:
Important note: there is a known bug which might trigger an error message at this point. If you see it, don’t panic, just close the message and click on Update All again. This time everything should work.
Time to Reboot, grab a coffee and after a few minutes… you shall boot into Fedora 38!!!
Please try it out and give us feedback on our Matrix room 🙂
I wanted to share with everybody how I use this amazing tool on my day to day on the terminal.
First of all, what exactly is fzf?
As you can see on the title of this post and on the fzf website:
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
And what does that exactly mean? Well, in short, it searches through a list without needing to be 100% accurate. You type a couple of letters and it will give you results based on likelihood:
Fedora Setup
To have a basic setup just install the software:
sudo dnf install fzf
And add these lines to your .bashrc:
if [ -f /usr/share/fzf/shell/key-bindings.bash ];then
source /usr/share/fzf/shell/key-bindings.bash
fi
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion.d/fzf ];then
source /etc/bash_completion.d/fzf
fi
The bash_completion will help you with:
whenever you want to use parameters whenever you call fzf by pressing tab:
Trigger fzf on another command with **
And the key-bindings:
CTRL-T – Paste the selected files and directories onto the command-line:
CTRL-R – Paste the selected command from history onto the command-line:
ALT-C – cd into the selected directory:
Customization
By default, fzf uses find but I’ve found ripgrep to be faster, let’s use it: