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Quick instructional articles with the aim of showing you how to accomplish a specific task. Understanding of the code you're copying and running as root is not required.

Building Qt6 From Source on Fedora

📅 Nov 11, 2022 · 📝 Mar 26, 2023 · ☕ 2 min read

How to build Qt6 from source without fuss. Hint: use the qt5 repo.

Install Docker on RHEL 8 or CentOS 8

📅 Nov 7, 2022 · 📝 Mar 19, 2023 · ☕ 4 min read

If the official install instructions for docker on RHEL 8 don't work. Try these steps instead, which work for CentOS 8 and RHEL 8.

RHEL 8 Crypto Policies

📅 Jun 23, 2022 · 📝 Mar 26, 2023 · ☕ 2 min read

Turns out CIS compliance breaks a lot of things. If you get 'CA certificate key too weak' errors on RHEL/Fedora, try 'sudo update-crypto-policies --set DEFAULT'