Re: Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-09-23 13:19, Tim via users wrote: > And, as a general rule, > you're only going to find compatible packages in the Fedora repos. > You're highly unlikely to find a package that cannot be used within the > repo, well not in the general repo, there may well be things in testing > that are no

Re: Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 22:20 -0500, David wrote: > Do some appimages contain proprietary blobs. Dunno, but I would not be surprised. > does that sort of fall into the same category as installing third- > party repos ?? If you didn't install something from the Fedora repos, it *is* external. Whet

Re: Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread David
Please forgive my ignorance on this subject The correct link for the new beta version of Krita, can be found at https://krita.org/en/item/first-beta-out-for-krita-4-4/ I downloaded the appimage a few minutes ago, and put it in a n

Re: sort of Firefox related

2020-09-22 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-09-20 at 18:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > I can't answer as to Firefox flatpaks, but I can with another package, > MuseScore. On my PC, a RPM version of MuseScore works as expected, the > flatpak version cannot print. You can go through the motions, select > your printer as expect

Re: Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread David
I found most of the information I was looking for There is allegedly an "appimageupdate" client that a user can download, but the recommended practice is to just install a different version of the specific appimage, such as Krita, and then after testing it, delete the one that you do not want to k

Re: Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread David
Mr. Greshko, Again, thank you very much for pointing out my lack of understanding things. I was only trying to simplify the explanation, that in terminal, I only needed to move to the Downloads folder with one simple command and did not have to use sudo, nor go to the home directory Someone, ple

Re: Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-09-23 01:23, David wrote: > one must understand the basic file system layout in Fedora which in my case > is:     /david/Downloads/krita4.4.appimage Your system isn't really configured like that, is it? The selinux contexts of your files are going to be all wrong. I don't even think you

Krita related / appimage related

2020-09-22 Thread David
I have never ever used an appimage before until just now. Earlier today, I saw on Phoronix that Krita had a new beta version. So I went to their website, clicked on nightly build and could not find a beta, but did find an alpha.I downloaded the Linux version which was an appimage. I went to