sham1

Running X11 applications using Podman

This is a short tutorial on using podman to run X11 applications. This need often arises when one has to run X11 applications on distros such as Silverblue, when the application for instance has no Flatpak and one doesn't want to install the particular app on their host OS (for instance for Silverblue this process would result in the need to layer a package and then reboot, something which understandably would get quite irritating after a while).

matthewriley

Install Git 2.17.1 from source on RHEL 7.x

These are the Terminal commands I recently used (July 2017) to install Git 2.17.1 from source on RHEL 7.x. I ran this in a VirtualBox VM after a fresh install from the ISO.

You mileage will vary as the yum packages are updated over time. The yum install line below should include all the dependencies, at least it did for me. Depending upon how often you use yum update you may need to run yum --enablerepo=base clean metadata as su before you run the following commands.

cd ~/Downloads
su
# First remove old system git
yum erase git