You know, immutable enterprise systems.

I installed HeliumOS (Almalinux bootc) on a corebooted Chromebook. Works really well, but audio needs to be configured.

The script needs a recent python which is not available there.

Go and rust can be installed for a user only. Is there something similar for python?

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 months ago

    Audio configuration sounds like a shell task. Why does it need Python? Is this script in any way an official part of the OS?

    • boredsquirrelOP
      1•2 months ago

      No not a part of the OS and als no idea why they used python, that script is full of crazy functions so may be needed.

      I translated the python 3.12 to 3.9 using ChatGPT lol, as even after installing up-to-date python and placing it in my home $PATH the script threw errors.

      I think it worked, but there is an issue with my atomic system, so I likely need to build an RPM for the changes or use a different command for akmods or package the kernel myself or whatever.

      • @mvirts
        1•2 months ago

        🤣 damn I would’ve been looking for a new image to flash at that point.

        I’m glad chatGPT didn’t brick your system.

        Where’d you get the audio setup script?

        • boredsquirrelOP
          2•2 months ago

          I am on a Chromebook and that is a recommended script. There are really just a few functions in python 3.11 that are missing in 3.9

          • @mvirts
            2•2 months ago

            This script? https://github.com/WeirdTreeThing/chromebook-linux-audio

            I’m not familiar with bootc based systems but it looks like you could hack up the container spec here: https://codeberg.org/HeliumOS/bootc to build heliumOS with those changes. You would then use something like bootc switch ... to use it.

            (Add a line in the docker file to install newer python and run the audio script. I’m not sure if the script requires changes for this.)

            I could be way off base with this idea, I’m not sure how heliumOS expects users to install packages.

            You may also be able to run the latest python docker image to run the script, but the way this script modifies system files shouldn’t work on an immutable system.

            • boredsquirrelOP
              2•2 months ago

              Haha thanks for the idea!

              That actually makes a lot of sense. The image building simply should be really easy if you can just pull the already made image and just add the file.

              There is an example to install newer python, do something and uninstall it again (which I wouldnt do).

              Thanks, I will try to do that. I think HeliumOS has a future as a ChromeOS alternative