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It's currently being pulled in as a dependency of iproute. However,
since it's explicitly mentioned in the list of default packages on
Fedora Silverblue and Workstation [1], it should be mentioned here too.
The psmisc package marks the translations for its manuals with %lang().
Therefore, it's a very good example for testing that the fedora-toolbox
image is localized just like Fedora Silverblue and Workstation.
This is unlike the xz package, whose translations for manuals were added
to the tests recently [2]. The xz package doesn't mark its translated
manuals with %lang() [3], which means that they are going to get
installed regardless of whether RPM has been configured to not install
localization files or not. eg., through the %_install_langs macro. So,
they aren't a good candidate for the tests until this is fixed.
[1] fedora-comps commit e4ed54dfcc497fd0
https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/c/e4ed54dfcc497fd0
https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/379
[2] Commit
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Toolbox is a tool for Linux, which allows the use of interactive command line environments for development and troubleshooting the host operating system, without having to install software on the host. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.
Toolbox environments have seamless access to the user's home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc..
This is particularly useful on OSTree based operating systems like Fedora CoreOS and Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead install software as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have package managers like DNF or YUM. This makes it difficult to set up a development environment or troubleshoot the operating system in the usual way.
Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within
which one can install their favourite development and troubleshooting tools,
editors and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do yum install ansible
without affecting the base operating system.
However, this tool doesn't require using an OSTree based system. It works equally well on Fedora Workstation and Server, and that's a useful way to incrementally adopt containerization.
The toolbox environment is based on an OCI
image. On Fedora this is the fedora-toolbox image. This image is used to
create a toolbox container that offers the interactive command line
environment.
Note that Toolbox makes no promise about security beyond what's already available in the usual command line environment on the host that everybody is familiar with.
Installation & Use
See our guides on installing & getting started with Toolbox and Linux distro support.