Silverblue worked well as a hypervisor. However, we are having problems attempting to use it as an OS for development. Namely, that the suggested toolbox commands do not work as advertised. So how should development project specific tools be installed?
The initial toolbox create problem was raised in post toolbox create ask . And the create problem proposed solution lead to the enter problem toolbox enter ask. Following is a summary; however. please see those other posts for details or for proposing solutions/workarounds to the toolbox problem.
What are people doing for project specific tools, docker? podman? Would flatpack help? Perhaps people do not use Silverblue to host multiple development projects?
> sudo su -l Jack-developer
[sudo] password for Jack:
Welcome to Fedora Linux 38.20230914.0 (Silverblue).
This terminal is running on the host system. You may want to try
out the Toolbox for a directly mutable environment that allows
package installation with DNF.
> toolbox create toolbox_name
Error: failed to create container toolbox_name
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/.xdg/${UID}"
> toolbox create toolbox_name
Created container: toolbox_name
Enter with: toolbox enter toolbox_name
> toolbox enter toolbox_name
Error: failed to inspect entry point of container toolbox_name
I’m not able to reproduce this here on Fedora 38 Workstation:
$ toolbox create
Image required to create toolbox container.
Download registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:38 (500MB)? [y/N]: y
Created container: fedora-toolbox-38
Enter with: toolbox enter
$ toolbox create toolbox_name
Created container: toolbox_name
Enter with: toolbox enter toolbox_name
Also test of Fedora 38 Kinoite:
$ toolbox create toolbox_name
Created container: toolbox_name
Enter with: toolbox enter toolbox_name
In both cases toolbox enter toolbox_name works and drops me into the shell with a purple dot.
Same version on both:
$ rpm -q toolbox
toolbox-0.0.99.4-1.fc38.x86_64
Kinoite version: PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 38.20230913.0 (Kinoite)"
Scott, thank you for the reply. I gather you logged in on the console. You left out the first command, the one where a person logs into a project when on the server already.
su -l project_21
That seems to be relevant.
Also, if it is not too much trouble, there are a couple of links to the toolbox problem given in the post above, which have some activity but no solutions. It would be nice if we could keep the toolbox problem discussion on those.
Here I was hoping someone could tell me what they do instead of toolbox as it does appear to be foobar for now.