A web page for dealing with super locked down laptops.

1. Installing software
2. Minimize buttons
3. Troubleshooting

1. Download .rpm file
2. Create a file structure

mkdir -p ~/local/pkg
mkdir -p ~/local/src/<software name>
mkdir -p ~/local/bin

3. Extract the .rpm

cp Downloads/<software name>.rpm ~/local/pkg
cd ~/local/src/<software name>
rpm2cpio ~/local/pkg/<filename>.rpm | cpio -id

4. Link libraries (if needed)
5. Find binary and link to ~/local/bin

ln -sf ~local/src/<softwarename>/usr/bin ~/local/bin

6. Add ~/local/bin/ to your path by pasting the following into your .bashrc

for dir in "$HOME/local/bin"; do
  if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
    PATH="$dir:$PATH"
  fi
done

7. reload (source .bashrc) your .bashrc and run your application

8. In order to run this from the applications menu you need to follow the steps below:

   1. Go to settings --> search --> cog in right bottom corner --> Other --> Add the location of your bin folder
   2. Change the name of your sym links to end in .sh
   3. Open Files, cling on settings menu (top left) --> Preferences --> Behaviour --> Executable Text Files --> Run Them*
   4. Now you can run your applications

* Select this option at your own peril, no downloading untrusted random files and opening them!

• Slack works out the box this way, but certain workspaces need a further work around to log in see below
• Google chrome requires you to link a bunch of libraires that should be found in /lib64/ or /usr/lib64 into ~/local/src/chrome/opt/google/chrome/

please add to this any further tips

RHEL - obtaining a more standard desktop environment

• Search for tweaks in Activities (or gnome-tweaks in terminal)
• Click windows and scroll down to add back in minimise and maximise buttons
• Extenstions tab allows you to add back in windows list, and additional menus rather than the default activities for navigation

Plug directly into uni network to sync with time servers ( will not work on eduroam or via vpn)

1. Open a terminal and leave this code running

while sleep .1; do ps aux | grep slack | grep -v grep | grep magic; done

2. try to log into slack, in app say log in via browser

3. The following should appear in the terminal with the code running:

kde-open5 slack://WORKSPACE_ID/magic-login/...
/usr/lib/slack/slack --enable-crashpad slack://workspace_id/magic-login/...

4. Open that link with slack rather than kde:

slack --enable-crashpad slack://WORKSPACE_ID/magic-login/...