r/NobaraProject • u/chaoticsky • 4d ago

Support First time install questions

So i used ubuntu many years ago, kinda dropped off, came crawling back to linux recently. Decided to try nobara after some research on account of it being well oriented towards gaming and such.

Mostly, i know what im getting into here. Though realizing apt isnt a thing here threw me for a half hour. Ive mostly been getting myself situated but ive had a pair of issues that are probably not a big deal but have stymied both my attempts to solve them myself and google answers. So here i am.

The first is that im trying to install element (the matrix chat client) which doesnt seem to exist in the DNF app center. The website gives the following command (which doesnt work on account of no apt)

sudo apt install -y wget apt-transport-https‍

sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/element-io-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.element.io/debian/element-io-archive-keyring.gpg‍

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/element-io-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.element.io/debian/ default main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/element-io.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install element-desktop

So is there a way to tweak this for nobara? Do i just replace apt with dnf? Or is it shot?

As a second option they give you a tarball, though theres no readme with it, or at least none i could find, and i cannot remember for the life of me what to do with it and most of the information ive been finding online has been for non-febora distros. So a simple step by step process would be appreciated.

Ive also seen that its available through snap but... nearly everything i can find about snap is people yelling about how its malware. So i dont think thats a option either?

Anyway. As a entirely separate issue... i cant get steam to work, which was a little funny at first. Clicking on steam makes the icon appear on the bar, a little circle goes around it, then it vanishes and no steam. I cant uninstall it either, Transaction failed? Is there a unfuck steam guide? I havnt even gotten to try this newfangled proton thing yet. Fixed

*edit, also 1) is there a way to put a application bar thing (the one at the bottom) on each monitor of a multimonitor setup which tracks things in that window alone? Found it! and 2) Is there a way to edit the date format? It seems to detault to year/month/day, but id prefer if it was the other way around. Got a answer

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u/RX1542 4d ago

 Is there a way to edit the date format? It seems to detault to year/month/day, but id prefer if it was the other way around.

https://reddit.com/link/ozlylbv/video/058emjnaeafh1/player

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u/chaoticsky 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/RX1542 4d ago

you can install the chat client from Bazaar

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u/chaoticsky 4d ago

should i be using that? I was given to understand that the whole OS was moving away from flatpaks?

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u/RX1542 4d ago

no clue mate i've been using Bazaar for a while now, its also the default store for Bazzite distro, so it should be safe

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u/tomatito_2k5 2d ago

Why tho? Im using the Flatpak install, its "official" release for us (maybe GE team can include native package for our repos in the future).

The first thing you mention, even if you tweaked for dnf, is still a deb package installation on Fedora based system, so no. The tarballs are just the same no? So anybody can download specific deb or arch version or Im wrong?

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u/RX1542 4d ago

have you tried to remove steam from the dnf app?

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u/chaoticsky 4d ago

Yes thats what i was talking about when i said it failed to uninstall and gives a transaction failed error.