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Is there a step-by-step guide to install howdy on F42? I have uninstalled it prior to upgrading to avoid errors.

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You can refer to this: principis/howdy-beta Copr and read the last five Posts here, then it should work.

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This is not needed: just install via dnf

dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta
sudo dnf install howdy howdy-gtk

Versions before 3.0.0-6[1] on fedora 42 will need the python-ffmpeg package mentioned above, so just download the package and install it via dnf, before running the above command

sudo dnf install (location of the downloaded python-ffmpeg package)

replace (location of the downloaded python-ffmpeg package) with your actual package location, which should be something like ~/Downloads/python3-ffmpeg-python-0.2.0-8.fc41.noarch.rpm

  1. Boltgolt recently merged a lot of things, the new 3.0.0-6 build is on the way containing these bunch of fixes ↩︎

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The above suggestion of installing the /python3-ffmpeg-python-0.2.0-8.fc41.noarch.rpm package independantly doesn’t actually work. I’m still getting

  - nothing provides python3dist(ffmpeg-python) needed by howdy-3.0.0-6.20250624gitd3ab993.fc42.x86_64 from copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:principis:howdy-beta

in F42

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This guide literally installs all packages manually for some reason instead of just doing what you’re supposed to do, which is

dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta
sudo dnf install howdy howdy-gtk

I’m really tempted to remove these packages so I don’t have to deal with this nonsense anymore. Please just tell me what the problem is so I can fix it when I have time.

Posting useless guides is contraproductive for me and for everyone else.

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Thanks I’ll try to look into it tonight or tomorrow. I think I know what the issue is.

I’ll update here when it’s fixed.

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I’m still having this issue, even using howdy-beta – any updates? I’m on Fedora 43.

Edit: I’m actually having a different issue now after reinstalling Fedora (unrelated): when I run sudo dnf --refresh install howdy, it says No match for argument: howdy. The same thing happens if I replace howdy with howdy-beta. And yes, I did run sudo dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta.

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I’m having trouble with the facial recognition library: nothing is provided by the necessary python3dist(dlib) for howdy-3.0.0-7.20250714gitd3ab993.fc43.x86_64 from copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:principis:howdy-beta.

I’ve searched here:

but I haven’t found anything. Can you help me, please?

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Hello I am getting a dlib error when i try to install howdy, even the beta version

[I] ~ ❯❯❯ sudo dnf copr enable principis/howdy-beta
 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/api_3/rpmrepo/principis/howdy-beta/fedora-43/                                                                    100% | 708.0   B/s | 629.0   B |  00m01s
Enabling a Copr repository. Please note that this repository is not part
of the main distribution, and quality may vary.

The Fedora Project does not exercise any power over the contents of
this repository beyond the rules outlined in the Copr FAQ at
<https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/user_documentation.html#what-i-can-build-in-copr>,
and packages are not held to any quality or security level.

Please do not file bug reports about these packages in Fedora
Bugzilla. In case of problems, contact the owner of this repository.
Is this ok [y/N]: y
[I] ~ ❯❯❯ sudo dnf install howdy
Updating and loading repositories:
 Copr repo for howdy-beta owned by principis                                                                                                        100% |   1.9 KiB/s |   5.1 KiB |  00m03s
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python3dist(dlib) needed by howdy-3.0.0-7.20250714gitd3ab993.fc43.x86_64 from copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:principis:howdy-beta
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

Installing dlib using pip doesn’t seem to solve the issue . and i do not have a python3-dlib package on fedora 43.

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I’m getting the same issue. It seems to have been broken since Fedora 43 released. I’ve found the starfish repo of Howdy works tho.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/starfish/howdy-beta/

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Hi, I made this guide to install howdy from source in Fedora 43. It works with sudo, poolkit and gdm login. I’m using GNOME, but should be easy to got it work on KDE as well.

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I found this repository, I tested it and it works more or less. Sometimes it fails, but I don’t know if that’s due to a problem with my drivers. I’m also going to try the solution in the answer below to see how that goes.

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I’ll try that repository to see how it works, thank you very much.