Install copr packages on Silverblue

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I am trying to install a package named keyd to remap my keyboard from the copr repo alternateved/keyd Copr on Fedora Silverblue 40.

The way I did this is first donwload the repo file by

wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/alternateved/keyd/repo/fedora-40/alternateved-keyd-fedora-40.repo

And copy the downloaded repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d, then run

rpm-ostree refresh-md

But when I try to install the package

rpm-ostree install keyd

It reports error:

❯ rpm-ostree install keyd
Inactive requests:
  langpacks-en (already provided by langpacks-en-4.0-13.fc40.noarch)
Checking out tree 1caf22c... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: rpmfusion-nonfree-steam copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:alternateved:keyd copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm fedora-cisco-openh264 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver google-chrome fedora updates updates-archive
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-steam' (cached); generated: 2024-07-05T08:54:24Z solvables: 2
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:alternateved:keyd' (cached); generated: 2024-07-28T17:07:16Z solvables: 5
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm' (cached); generated: 2024-03-18T11:54:41Z solvables: 14
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2024-03-12T11:45:42Z solvables: 3
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver' (cached); generated: 2024-07-25T21:08:16Z solvables: 29
rpm-md repo 'google-chrome' (cached); generated: 2024-07-26T17:32:09Z solvables: 3
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2024-04-14T18:51:11Z solvables: 74881
rpm-md repo 'updates' (cached); generated: 2024-07-28T01:56:06Z solvables: 22686
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive' (cached); generated: 2024-06-30T05:31:17Z solvables: 22869
Resolving dependencies... done
Checking out packages... done
error: Checkout keyd-2.5.0-1.fc40.x86_64: opendir(local): No such file or directory

More background: When I first installed Fedora Silverblue 39 on my computer last November, I was able to install the package using the same steps as listed above. Today(07/28/2024), this package got updated, and it seems everything is broken.

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I’m not sure, but I bet that it has something to do with /usr/local
/usr/local is not actually a directory but a symlink to /var/usrlocal (you know, on Silverblue /usr is immutable).
If you compare the 2.4.3 spec file and the 2.5.0 one you will see that in the latest version it tries to install stuff in /usr/local, and ostree can’t handle that… I am just speculating, maybe we need a ostree expert.

In the meanwhile you could contact the copr maintainer and ask if it is really necessary to use /usr/local

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Added f40 and removed f39, nvidia, workstation

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Added atomic-desktops, copr, rpm-ostree

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good point!

Can such a script use a check function and install to /var/usrlocal/ instead? This would work, especially needed if these files are mutable, like the config files it seems to place there.

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I think this may be the problem. If I download the source code of this package, and build it with:

make PREFIX=/var/usrlocal
make install

Will this bypass the restriction?

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I actually think this is a pretty good idea, not just if the maintainer of this particular package will want to do that though. It seems the maintainer is just building this package for regular Fedora.

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Maybe. But at this point you are not using the RPM anymore.

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Care to elaborate? The RPM places things there. This does not work. A fix should best support all Fedora variants.

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I was replying to @snake

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Hi, I’m aware of this issue. With latest version of keyd the default prefix has changed to /usr/local ([Maintainer Note] PREFIX changed to /usr/local · Issue #628 · rvaiya/keyd · GitHub) and maintainers were notified about this in advance. I’m actually using the Atomic variant and I’m currently troubleshooting this issue. Most likely I’ll go back to /usr prefix.

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It should be fixed with version 2.5.0-3. Apologies for any issues this recent update might have caused. In the future please let me know if something isn’t working properly (I’ve stumbled upon this discussion purely on accident).

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Thanks for your reply. Since you are also using an atomic variant, what would be the best way to install a package from COPR on an atomic Fedora variant?

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I think your approach @snake is what we currently have. I have no knowledge about any other way that would allow COPR management. I might be wrong as I don’t track Atomic development that closely.

That said, I’ve created a simple wrapper script that I use for that purpose, you can find it in my dotfiles here. It allows me to enable/disable COPRs with simple command copr enable alternateved/keyd or copr disable alternateved/keyd.

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I think we have at least 3 of those wrapper scripts now XD

the dnf copr command is pretty easy to implement, but official integration would require adding it to rpm-ostree.

I also have a wrapper script with support for almost all common tasks.

But this issue was not about the addition of the .repo file but the actual RPM. I also had an RPM fail poorly, the kernel-longterm package by kwizart that I would love to use

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Haha, that looks much more elaborate than what I have. Nice work! :smiley:

I guess we all had to find some ways of managing current state of Atomic development.

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I mean it just takes one person to add that stuff to rpm-ostree haha but I am too overloaded to learn real programming

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Do you know a way to make keyd works with flatpak ? i set it , but only works in my terminal

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Please refer to quickstart section in keyd documentation. That should be enough to have keyd working in flatpak, graphical environment and TTY.

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I wish to install lilay/topgrade Copr

# dnf copr enable lilay/topgrade
bash: dnf: command not found

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