[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.1.0

[Adrian P. van Bloois]

I had  selinux 38, I took selinux 43 from Fedora 41 eand installed that.
But I can't find 4.0 anywhere.
What do I understand wrong?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 10:10:18AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:
> 
> > I have one problem with firelinux though, my python is too old, I'm
> > running Almalinux 9.8 which has Python 3.6. I install 3.4.10 on the side
> > but there is selinux only on 3.6.
> > So, which level of python do I have to install???
> 
> You need Python 3.8 at the very least, and I'd aim for 3.9 or newer. The 
> hard requirement is Selenium 4.x (needs 3.8+); Firelynx's own code runs 
> on 3.7+. Python 3.4 is far too old and it won't run Firelynx or a 
> current Selenium, so set that one aside. The "selenium only on 3.6" you 
> saw is the old system package, not the Selenium 4.x Firelynx uses.
> 
> You don't need to build Python from source. AlmaLinux 9 packages newer 
> ones. Just install 3.12 and run Firelynx from a virtualenv built with 
> it, so it's isolated from the system Python:
> 
>     sudo dnf install python3.12 firefox gcc make openssl-devel
>     # lynx is in EPEL on EL9; if dnf can't find it:  sudo dnf install epel-release
>     sudo dnf install lynx
> 
>     python3.12 -m venv ~/.venvs/firelynx
>     source ~/.venvs/firelynx/bin/activate
>     pip install selenium
> 
> Then install and run with that venv active (so `python3` is the 3.12 
> one):
> 
>     git clone https://github.com/npitre/firelynx.git
>     cd firelynx && ./install.sh
>     firelynx https://example.com
> 
> The venv's pip Selenium also fetches geckodriver for you, so there's 
> nothing else to install.
> 
> Nicolas
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