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CoreCtrl is a great application for tuning voltages and such on your AMD graphics card. There doesn't seem to be many other decent options for this that I've seen.
Usually if an application is not available in the official repo, I can find a flatpak, or an appimage, or compile from source.
For this particular application, I'm having no luck with any of those options. And compiling from source can just be a messy unmaintanable nightmare which I'm not interested in.
I've used CoreCtrl before in Fedora where it is in the official repos. But it's not available in OpenSUSE.
I am very hesitant to go installing something as a community package here, because I've just reinstalled my system from scratch and it's "clean". I had installed a few packages from various repos on my previous install, and my system got kind of unstable with updates. When I complained that my system was unstable I posted in this subreddit and it was implied that I was a moron for installing from repos like that and no wonder it's unstable. Ok, fair enough, lesson learned...
How do we request this software?
I'm messing around with Kalpa in a virtual machine for the first time trying to figure out if it could replace tumbleweed for me. One important application I use is corectrl, since there is (or was when I decided to do this) a bug with amd gpus where games would stutter unless the gpu was set to a stable frequency. Due to that, I installed corectrl and set it as such for my gpu, and on tumbleweed it worked great. Therefore, I would like to use it on Aeon if possible.
On the Aeon website it says (in the context of installing packages):
To reiterate: EVERYTHING should be done via flatpaks or be installed in a distrobox if a package is not available as a flatpak. Using transactional-update is strictly what you need for your host operating system to work (exotic drivers, specialized vpn services).
Is corectrl an application that is worth using transactional-update for? I (foolishly) tried installing it in distrobox and then remembered that distrobox is a container and therefore won't be able to access my real root filesystem and manipulate drivers.
Is there a way of installing it in distrobox? If not, is there any downside to installing it via transactional-update?
Thanks!
I think that would be an install candidate for option #3:
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RPM's in a root distrobox "distrobox-enter -r"
If Corectrl was actually in an official openSUSE repo I might be inclined to find a good answer for this problem
But the idea of a secure, stable, self healing and self managing desktop kind of goes out of the window if you’re installing random software build by random untreatable sources - which corectrl packages would fall into
ive used kde tumbleweed(and pop_OS) and there was no problem installing, launching it. perfectly working. i reinstalled opensuse and selected gnome. now, corectrl wouldnt launch
localhost:~> corectrl
[07-02-21 15:12:49.557][W] No translation found for locale en_US
[07-02-21 15:12:49.557][W] Using en_EN translation.
[07-02-21 15:12:49.561][W] Helper instance detected. Killing it now.
QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/qml/main.qml:19:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module "QtQuick.Controls": Cannot protect module QtQuick.Controls 2 as it was never registered
[07-02-21 15:12:50.169][W] QML engine failed to load main interface!
[07-02-21 15:12:50.169][W] Initialization failed
[07-02-21 15:12:50.169][W] Exiting...
terminate called without an active exception
Aborted (core dumped)
welp
edit: lmao ok, fixed it by installing libqt5-quickcontrols 2