Aral Balkan
Fedora Silverblue 40 is out today. If you have rpm-fusion layered so you can’t upgrade through GNOME Software, run these commands in Terminal:
1. Pin current version:
sudo ostree admin pin 0
2. Handle rpm-fusion nastiness:
rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release
3. Rebase to Fedora Silverblue 40:
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/40/x86_64/silverblue
Aral Balkan
(And then restart your system, of course. You can always roll back to your older pinned version of 39. Also, although not required, it’s always a good idea to install the latest updates in the current version of the OS before rebasing.)
Aral Balkan
Note that I just encountered the following issue:
https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/536
Which I worked around by removing mozilla-openh264 before running the rebase again, at which point it succeeded:
rpm-ostree remove mozilla-openh264
#Fedora #fedora40 #Silverblue #upgrade #mozilla #OpenH264 #rpmOstree #error
Aral Balkan
Just rebooted and I’m up and running with Fedora Silverblue 40.
(Just tried reinstalling mozilla-openh264 – so videos work in Firefox – but it failed with the same error. Not a big deal, I’m using @Vivaldi as my main browser these days anyway and I guess the Fedora folks will fix this in time.)
More importantly, I wonder if the screen reader has been fixed yet. (Yes, Fedora ships with a broken screen reader.)
#Fedora #fedora40 #Silverblue #upgrade #mozilla #OpenH264 #rpmOstree #error #a11y
Aral Balkan
@martenbjorklund No, and I don’t remember why I’m not but I did have some reason at some point :)
Does everything work out of the box with it for you?
Mårten Björklund 🇸🇪
@aral @Vivaldi You're not using the Flatpak version from Flathub for Firefox?
Aral Balkan
@MarkDW It’s what some people who need visual assistance use. It reads the screen and can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts. The latter bit is broken in Fedora by default.
Mark Daniels-Wr. 🟢
@aral @Vivaldi nice 🙂 I've been running a fedora 39 install for a while now (with similar hardware specs) and it's terrific and totally stable and does everything... Silly question: what is a screen reader? 🤔Wondering now if mine is broken but then again I'm not aware that I've got one... 👍
Aral Balkan
Just checked and yes, the screen reader is still broken in Fedora 40. (Cannot be controlled; keyboard shortcuts/modifier key doesn’t work.)
So this is yet another release where the screen reader is broken by default.
It’s amazing to be that this is not a showstopper.
Aral Balkan
@ljrk No idea. It’s just a thing that’s broken but is apparently a fact of life and so we go through this dance every time there’s an upgrade. Ideally, I wouldn’t have to know or care about rpm-fusion at all :)
lj·rk
@aral Why would you need to do those workarounds for RPM fusion, they're new to me?
Aral Balkan
@ljrk Ooh, if that works, they should incorporate that into the official rebase instructions on @fedora magazine so folks don’t have to keep running that command.
lj·rk
@aral I think back then I simply removed the version lock of RPM fusion and since then the rebases work just so:
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
@aral I'm not involved with #Fedora, but presumably there's a release process that is written somewhere.
This sounds like a bug in not just the software, but also the release process. Perhaps the way to tackle the software bug is to fix the release process so that alarm bells ring *before* next release.
Grabbing prerelease images and testing and raising bugs in the run up to release might provoke some action - if you have the time to do that. *someone* clearly needs to!
Aral Balkan
@pixelate It’s true for any Linux distribution that ships with Wayland by default at the moment. Orca’s keyboard control is broken under Wayland.
Devin Prater :blind:
@aral Wow, really? That's really disappointing.
Aral Balkan
@ggpsv I work mainly in the host system and I have a distrobox container for building stuff in when I need to build from source. But that’s about it. I usually stick to Rust apps or Go apps for CLI apps (tried homebrew but it can mess things up) and otherwise I try to stick to Flatpaks and have a couple of things layered.
Gabriel Garrido
@aral Unrelated question, how have you liked the atomic desktop for development? I'm thinking about using Fedora Kinoite 40 and while I like the idea, I'm not sure how it goes in practice. Are you doing software development using Toolbox or Distrobox?
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