Fedora 41 Installation Help

[MangoPG]

Howdy 👋 - firstly I want to say thank you for creating this!!

I am a very new Linux user and am trying to leave Windows before the Win 10 support ends, so please accept my apologies for any failures to understand terminology or if I do not provide the correct information.

I did originally ask in the Fedora forums as I did see in your Read Me that you have not used Fedora since you were in High School. It was not very helpful for me - a user did say that the spec file needs editing

The source in git would need some updates to work on f41.
For example it assumes python 3.12 but fedora is on 3.13.
Small edit to the .spec file.

I did look in the spec file and honestly - I couldn't see the line that referred to 3.12 so not sure what to do there.

Any-ways - like a bull in a china shop, I thought - follow jtgans instructions and see what happens. It errors out and my searching of the web has not rendered any information that I can understand, so I am wondering if you can help me? I am so sorry - I do prefer to find the solutions myself but this is causing major confusion in me and I am uncertain as to what is and isn't important in the error.

Makefile:24: Building on fedora
rpmdev-setuptree
cp g13gui.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
tar -zcf ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/g13gui-`grep "VERSION" g13gui/common.py |awk '{ print $3 }' |tr -d "'"`.tar.gz .
rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/g13gui.spec
warning: %source_date_epoch_from_changelog is set, but %changelog has no entries to take a date from
Executing(%mkbuilddir): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ZidmOO
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
+ test -d /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
+ /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
+ /usr/bin/rm -rf /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
+ /usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
+ /usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build/SPECPARTS
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lmYQZO
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
+ cd /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE MANIFEST.in Makefile README.md assets bin debian docs etc g13gui g13gui-0.1.0-build g13gui.doap g13gui.spec meson.build requirements.txt setup.py tools
+ tar zxf /home/mango/rpmbuild/SOURCES/g13gui-0.1.0.tar.gz
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RXv9CI
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RXv9CI: line 33: cd: /home/mango/rpmbuild/BUILD/g13gui-0.1.0-build: No such file or directory
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RXv9CI (%build)

RPM build warnings:
    %source_date_epoch_from_changelog is set, but %changelog has no entries to take a date from

RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RXv9CI (%build)
make: *** [Makefile:52: fedora] Error 1

Thank you for taking the time to read, and for any help you are willing to issue.

Mango