why is the cabal sandbox inited after installing yesod-bin? - cabal

On the Yesod homepage (http://www.yesodweb.com/page/quickstart) the following installation sequence is suggested:
wget http://www.stackage.org/lts/cabal.config
cabal update # download package list
cabal install alex happy yesod-bin # install build tools
yesod init --bare # answer questions as prompted
cabal sandbox init # set up a sandbox
cabal install --run-tests # install libraries
yesod devel # launch devel server
My question is:
why is "cabal sandbox init" not directly after "cabal update"?
In the suggested way alex happy yesod-bin are all installed in the global space instead of inside the sandbox.
Thanks,
Alex.

Because it generally confuses people when they can't run yesod directly; installing the executables into ~/.cabal/bin means that the user can always access them. It does leak some information outside of the sandbox, but it's typically the right trade-off to take.

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MariaDB version 10.5.9 unable to install

In my current workplace we are using MariaDB version 10.5.9 for our DB's and we are trying to reinstall this version for testing purposes on a separate container. However, seems anything from 10.5.9 below is failing with the follow error;
root#mdb-10-5:~# curl -LsS https://r.mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash -s -- --mariadb-server-version=mariadb-10.5.9
# [info] Checking for script prerequisites.
# [warning] Found existing file at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list. Moving to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list.old_5
# [error] MariaDB Server version 10.5.9 is not working.
# Please verify that the version is correct.
#
# The latest MariaDB Server versions are:
# 10.10.1 10.3.36 10.4.26 10.5.17 10.6.10 10.7.6 10.8.5 10.9.3
#
# More information on MariaDB releases is available at:
# https://mariadb.com/kb/en/release-notes/
When I try the same command with version 10.5.10, it works and downloads successfully.
I am using the following procedure, one of which is the MariaDB KB:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-package-repository-setup-and-usage/
https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/how-to-install-a-specific-version-of-mariadb/
Both guides use the same repo, and it is also the only thing that I have found specific when I search for information to install this particular version or MariaDB.
Can anyone offer any suggestions or have experienced similar problems?
We (MariaDB corporation) recently moved over our repositories to a content delivery network instead of using our own servers only. Unfortunately the new service does not have a full archive of older releases yet, the oldest 10.5 we have on there for example is 10.5.10.
I have filed an internal bug report / feature request about that already, but it is still pending.
Meanwhile you can "fix" this by first running the repo setup script with a supported version like 10.5.10, and then editing the repository file it created, replacing the version number with 10.5.9, and the host name dlm.mariadb.com with download.mariadb.com.
On Debian and Ubuntu the repository file would be /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list, and you'd have to run apt-get update afterwards to pick up the repo change before installing packages.
On RHEL, CentOS, Rocky etc. the file is /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo and no further action is needed before installing actual packages.

tcms-api 5.3 package incompatible with Windows

I attempted to upgrade my tcms-api library from 5.0 to 5.3 using:
pip install tcms-api --upgrade
on a Windows 10 machine, I saw a lot of errors when trying to install the dependent package of kerberos. Even though this is old, I saw a similar set of errors. The package installation failed since the kerberos package isn't supported on Windows and I was left at tcms-api 5.0.
Please file a bug against https://github.com/kiwitcms/tcms-api.
We can do a quick fix by providing 2 package names:
tcms-api and tcms-api[kerberos]
The first one will not install the kerberos package.
The proposed workaround makes sense but changing the underlying kerberos implementation needs careful testing which isn't a quick job.
OTOH https://github.com/kiwitcms/python-social-auth-kerberos uses gssapi which seems to be the latest and most actively maintained implementation of Kerberos for Python. There is an open issue to migrate to that in tcms-api so you can contribute if you want.
As a workaround, I was able to do the following (caveat: I haven't extensively tested my installation yet):
Clone the tcms-api repo from GitHub
Edit setup.py to change the install_requires line to use 'kerberos-sspi' rather than 'kerberos'
Install the following pip packages: Setuptools, Wheel, Twine
CD to repo folder and run: python setup.py bdist_wheel
That creates a package under the dist folder
Run pip install dist\tcms_api-5.3-py3-none-any.whl
Celebrate successful package install
The steps were modified from this page.
Update:
I confirmed the things I need the API to do work with my custom package (create and update test runs). However, I'm in a situation where I don't need to specifically harden my Kiwi instance using kerberos authentication.

Installing mongodb-enterprise-server error

Hello guys. Can someone help me about this one? I cant install mongodb because of dependency problem. I already tried updating my linux mint terminal.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mongodb-enterprise-server:
mongodb-enterprise-server depends on libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2); however:
Package libcurl3 is not installed.
mongodb-enterprise-server depends on snmp; however:
Package snmp is not installed.
Installing via dpkg -i mongodb.deb will not include additional package dependencies. You should be able to fix your installation by following up with sudo apt --fix-broken install.
Unless you have strong reasons to avoid the standard process I would recommend following the tutorial to Install MongoDB Enterprise by adding the appropriate repo definitions. Adding the normal package repo will also make it easier for you to update to newer minor releases of MongoDB 4.0.x.

Can't find dev_appserver.py with gcloud installation

I've installed gcloud by following the instructions on:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-debian-ubuntu
gcloud is in my path at /usr/bin/gcloud, but the package doesn't seem to have dev_appserver.py in my path. Is it installed? How do I run it?
Platform: Ubuntu 16.04
Edit: By running dpkg -L google-cloud-sdk I've found it at /usr/lib/google-cloud-sdk/bin/dev_appserver.py but when I try to run it I get:
This action requires the installation of components: [app-engine-
python]
You cannot perform this action because this Cloud SDK installation is
managed by an external package manager. If you would like to get the
Also not sure why it wasn't added to my path.
I know the original question concerns Ubuntu, but I just wanted to share some notes for macOS/OS X in case it's helpful for someone else.
I installed the google-cloud-sdk via Homebrew-Cask and overlooked the caveats note:
brew cask install google-cloud-sdk
After installing the SDK cask, I installed the Python App Engine component, as #Rodney Jonace mentioned:
gcloud components install -q app-engine-python
Going back to the caveats note mentioned above, I appended the following the my ~/.zshrc file:
source $(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc
source $(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc
Opening a new terminal tab, I was able to call the extra Python App Engine scripts (e.g., dev_appserver.py) and use the Zsh completions. Hope that helps!
The following articles were also useful:
http://www.javatronic.fr/tips/2014/10/17/installing_google_cloud_sdk_on_ubuntu_with_oh-my-zsh.html
http://www.rainbowbreeze.it/how-to-setup-a-google-app-engine-python-environment-on-mac-osx-using-homebrew/
The google-cloud-sdk deb package comes with the built-in component manager disabled, which is preventing that copy of dev_appserver.py from working through gcloud. If you update your apt-cache, you can install the google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python and/or google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java packages that have just started to be published. Directions here:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads#apt-get

Where does sdkman install packages?

I used sdkman to install groovy which went fine. Where is the installed package now? I need the path for it. I am on Ubuntu 14.04.
I've checked it on my system. It should be located in $HOME/.sdkman/candidates/.
I think the best way would be to use SDKMan's home command:
https://sdkman.io/usage#home
Something like this (taken from the above page):
$ sdk home java 11.0.7.hs-adpt
/home/somedude/.sdkman/candidates/java/11.0.7.hs-adpt
Upon installation, SDKMAN creates an environment variable $SDKMAN_DIR which points to the installation directory.
Usuall it's ~/.sdkman
After you have run source $HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh.
You can see the sdkman "installation" by running:
declare -f
$HOME on mac is /Users/<users>
Where's SDKMan installed:
echo #SDKMAN_DIR
Where did it just install gradle? (or some other package)
which gradle
SDKMAN stores file in $HOME/.sdkman/candidates/ as Tom mentioned and this answer goes into more detail.
To find where SBT 1.3.13 is installed, type sdk home sbt 1.3.13. It'll return something like /Users/powers/.sdkman/candidates/sbt/1.3.13.
The arguments to the sdk install command align with where the files are stored in $HOME/.sdkman/candidates.
sdk install java 8.0.272.hs-adpt stores files in $HOME/.sdkman/candidates/java/8.0.272.hs-adpt.
sdk install sbt 1.3.13 stores files in $HOME/.sdkman/candidates/sbt/1.3.13.
When you run sdk install, the downloaded binaries get saved in $HOME/.sdkman/archives. For example, $HOME/.sdkman/archives/java-8.0.272.hs-adpt.zip and $HOME/.sdkman/archives/sbt-1.3.13.zip.
Some of the binaries are pretty big and can end up taking a lot of space on your computer. You should periodically delete them with the sdk flush archives command. Once you install the software, you don't need the binaries anymore. See here for more details.

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