This is a question that comes up quite often by windows users, so thought we would share how we normally do it. The question is
Can you run a PostgreSQL server on your windows desktop/server box without having to install anything?
The answer is
| Download latest standalone Displaylink driver package here | |
| Execute the start-up script (*.run) as follows to remove old driversudo ./displaylink-driver-X.X.X-XX.XXX.run uninstall | |
| Unpack the installer./displaylink-driver-X.X.X-XX.XXX.run --noexec --keep | |
| cd into new foldercd displaylink-driver-X.X.X-XX.XXX |
| # Install workaround for Displaylink driver on Fedora 39 | |
| # December 7th, 2023 | |
| # Download Displaylink rpm for Fedora 38 | |
| https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm/releases/download/v5.8.0/fedora-38-displaylink-1.14.1-1.x86_64.rpm | |
| #If the driver was already installed but quit working, after kernel update, remove it. | |
| sudo dnf remove displaylink | |
| # Built and install the edvi modules. | |
| git clone https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi | |
| cd evdi | |
| export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/include/python3.12:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH" |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # generate new personal ed25519 ssh key | |
| ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C "rob thijssen <rthijssen@gmail.com>" | |
| # generate new host cert authority (host_ca) ed25519 ssh key | |
| # used for signing host keys and creating host certs | |
| ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f manta_host_ca -C manta.network | |
| eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" |
| ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N '' -C "gilby1@gmail.com" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa | |
| ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N '' -C "gilby1@gmail.com" -f ~/.ssh/github_rsa | |
| ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N '' -C "gilby1@gmail.com" -f ~/.ssh/mozilla_rsa |
Install Python 3.7 64-bit
Install PyRFC
pip install Downloads/pyrfc-1.9.93-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl| # MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended. | |
| # | |
| # Install the MySQL driver: | |
| # gem install mysql2 | |
| # | |
| # And be sure to use new-style password hashing: | |
| # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html | |
| development: | |
| adapter: mysql2 | |
| encoding: utf8 |
| =Navigating= | |
| visit('/projects') | |
| visit(post_comments_path(post)) | |
| =Clicking links and buttons= | |
| click_link('id-of-link') | |
| click_link('Link Text') | |
| click_button('Save') | |
| click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button | |
| click('Button Value') |