{"id":2308,"date":"2018-06-01T23:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T06:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2018-06-01T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T06:56:22","slug":"fedora-f28-annoyances-and-workarounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Fedora &#8211; F28 Annoyances, and Workarounds.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running <strong>Fedora 28<\/strong> on the test system, I have encountered the following issues with various applications, and found substitute <strong>rpm<\/strong> workarounds..\u00a0 Usually, these can be installed by downloading them ,and then using <code><strong># rpm -Uvh......... --force<\/strong><\/code>..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grub-customizer<\/strong> still crashes, but the F27 version works ( <code><strong>grub-customizer-5.0.6-6.fc27.x86_64<\/strong><\/code> )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wine<\/strong> crashes with some windows apps, and the workaround is &#8211; again &#8211; to download\/install the F27 versions of all wine rpms &#8211; I am currently using <code><strong>wine-3.9-1.fc27<\/strong><\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HandBrake<\/strong> (from <em>rpmfusion<\/em>) fails with pixellated images in some cases, and &#8216;hang&#8217;s in others, but the <strong><em>sourceforge<\/em><\/strong> F28 versions work correctly ( currently <code><strong>handbrake-cli-1.1.0-2.gitb463d33.fc28.x86_64<\/strong><\/code> and <code><strong>handbrake-gui-1.1.0-2.gitb463d33.fc28.x86_64<\/strong><\/code> )\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had tried installing the F27 version, but this involved several &#8216;required library version&#8217; mismatches and conflicts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in a previous article, even (re)creating from source does not work, including compiling from the original source tree..\u00a0\u00a0 It would appear that there are still issues with GCC 8, included with this Fedora release&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully all this will soon be fixed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 June 1, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running Fedora 28 on the test system, I have encountered the following issues with various applications, and found substitute rpm workarounds..\u00a0 Usually, these can be installed by downloading them ,and then using # rpm -Uvh&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; &#8211;force.. Grub-customizer still crashes, but the F27 version works ( grub-customizer-5.0.6-6.fc27.x86_64 ) Wine crashes with some windows apps, and the workaround is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2308\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1238,1617,11,15,19,20,1535],"tags":[1893,1841,180,548,1894,419],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-fix","category-gcc","category-hacks","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-quirks","tag-application-problems","tag-fedora-28","tag-grub-customizer","tag-handbrake","tag-wine","tag-workarounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}