Installation instructions for Fedora

[ldorau]

I cannot find any installation instructions for Fedora OS.
Could you add them?

[ntc2]

I don't have a Fedora system, but assuming there is not a Fedora PPA, it should be easy to adapt the Debian/Ubuntu instructions. You just need to figure out the analog of

sudo apt-get install git python-appindicator python-xdg python-pexpect python-gconf python-gtk2 python-glade2 libxxf86vm1

on Fedora, using dnf or whatever the package manager is these days. The rest of the instructions will be the same / are independent of your Linux distribution.

Once you figure out how to install the dependencies on Fedora, it would be helpful if you submitted a PR on the README, or commented here explaining what you did.

[ldorau]

Indeed, the installation procedure is quite the same. I could submit a PR, but I have two problems now:

1. python download-xflux.py does not work for me:

$ python download-xflux.py 
Downloading 64-bit xflux ...
Extracting /tmp/xflux.tgz ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "download-xflux.py", line 34, in <module>
    download_xflux()
  File "download-xflux.py", line 29, in download_xflux
    tar = tarfile.open(tarchive)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1680, in open
    raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully

The downloaded file '/tmp/xflux.tgz' is in fact a html page:

Request Error (invalid_request)
--
Your request could not be processed. Request could not be handled
This could be caused by a misconfiguration, or possibly a malformed request.
For assistance, contact your network support team.

2. I am experiencing the common issue No change in screen color #27:
   Sorry, we only support 8 and 10-bit displays right now.

So I could submit a PR, but without the python download-xflux.py stage.

[ldorau]

Without downloading xflux it could look like this.

[ghost]

@ldorau

Request Error (invalid_request)
--
Your request could not be processed. Request could not be handled
This could be caused by a misconfiguration, or possibly a malformed request.
For assistance, contact your network support team.

I'm not entirely sure if my last commit cd07736 for the download-xflux.py caused your 1. issue but for now, you can try the old code here (using your system wget and tar instead of Python library utils).

old-download-xflux.py

or just run below code to do the same from inside of fluxgui cloned repository:

wget -c https://justgetflux.com/linux/xflux64.tgz && tar -xzf xflux64.tgz; rm -f xflux64.tgz

[ldorau]

@faraco the old version of download-xflux.py works well for me, so the commit cd07736 can be the cause of my problem. I have submitted a separate issue for that: #97

[ntc2]

This was just fixed by PR #98.