[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.1.0

Adrian P. van Bloois adrian at pa0rda.nl
Fri Jun 12 12:29:30 UTC 2026


On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 08:05:31AM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 01:13:54PM +0200, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 05:31:36PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > Hi Adrian,
> > > 
> > > Easy mixup: SELinux and Selenium are two different things with nearly
> > > identical names. SELinux is a Linux security component. Selenium is the
> > > Python library Firelynx needs. The packages you installed are SELinux,
> > > and taking them from Fedora onto AlmaLinux can break your system, so
> > > please remove them.
> > > 
> > > There is no "Selenium 4.0" package to search for. The "pip install"
> > > command below gets the right version automatically. Just do this:
> > > 
> > >     sudo dnf install python3.12 firefox lynx gcc make openssl-devel
> > > 
> > >     python3.12 -m venv ~/.venvs/firelynx
> > >     source ~/.venvs/firelynx/bin/activate
> > >     pip install selenium
> > > 
> > >     git clone https://github.com/npitre/firelynx.git
> > >     cd firelynx && ./install.sh
> > >     firelynx https://example.com
> > > 
> > > That is everything. No other downloads are needed.
> > I did all that, only python3.12 had to be installed.
> > After this my prompt changed, (firelynx) was inserted at teh beginning.
> > This was not documented so I consider this a misfeature.
> About that, that's a virtualenv fature to inform you which python
> environment is currently active, it doesn't really have anything to do
> with firelynx per se.
That's precisely what I don't like.
> Cheers,
> S.M.
> -- 
> Sebastien Massy
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