This is probably a dumb question, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to install Brace over the new Fedora Workstation install. Can someone please explain how?

[image] anon98749087: I’m not sure what to do now though. [image] Brace toolkit shieldGeneral @simony no, only the whole thing like: sudo dnf install https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20240607-1.noarch.rpm sudo dnf install brace #the nex…

What’s Brace? Can you link the app?

I think it’s basically a set of scripts. But I don’t know how to run them properly. Here’s the link: GitHub - divestedcg/Brace: Toolkit compatible with multiple Linux distros that allows for installation of handpicked applications, along with corresponding configs that have been tuned for reasonable…

sudo dnf install https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm

Why is someone putting thumbs down on this post? Is there an issue with Brace? It would be much more helpful to reply to the post rather than to just put a thumbs down.

[image] any1: sudo dnf install https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm This code executes with the following output: Repositories loaded. https://divested.dev/rpm/fedora/divested-release-20250714-1.noarch.rpm …

Thanks so much! One of lines seems to have made it so Proton apps won’t launch. I think it was sudo brace-enable-fapolicyd. How can I reverse what this did? Also, it totally wiped all the icons from my system app launcher (gnome). Is this part of the thumbnail vulnerability protection? Or is this a …

[image] anon98749087: How can I reverse what this did? sudo systemctl disable fapolicyd --now [image] anon98749087: it totally wiped all the icons from my system app launcher hardened_malloc is currently incompatible with the glycin library used in GNOME 49/Fedora 43 and newer: Making…

thank you. i actually had to just do a fresh system install, so i didn’t get to try these fixes. a couple minutes after posting my question the system removed all app shortcuts from the app launcher and then gave me an authentication error and wouldn’t let me log in. seemed like it was very broken a…

[image] anon98749087: update any of the scripts to break f43 less it works just fine, I’ve been using F43 for a good two weeks now a re-install should absolutely never be necessary

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