System Updates With Mixin

If you use ClearLinux’s mixin to add custom bundles to your installation, you will still be able to update your upstream bundles, however it will nolonger be as simple as doing a sudo swupd update. Here are the step’s you need to go through, assuming you defined your mixin repository in ~/mixin-repo: cd ~/mixin-repo createrepo_c . sudo mixin build sudo swupd update --migrate … this is at least the process I have used, and which worked for me....

Wed May 15 2019 · Geoffrey J. Teale

Enabling H.264 playback in Firefox on Intel's Clearlinux

In common with most Linux distros, Intel’s ClearLinux doesn’t ship H.264 decoding by default. Given the novel nature of ClearLinux there isn’t a nice off the shelf solution to this yet, so we have to use a workaround. I’ll try and find a better way to achieve this, but for now this will get H.264 video working in YouTube / Twitter etc, for now: wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2 tar xf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.tz2 cd ffmpeg-snapshot ....

Wed May 15 2019 · Geoffrey J. Teale