On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400
H wrote:

> The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is missing 

I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering.

> - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this however, may shortly
> be resolved.

Check on my website. :)

The rest of your stuff is easily dealt with by compiling the relevant Fedora 
rpms.

> I'd love to have keepassx updated

Download this:

ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/25/Everything/source/tree/Packages/k/keepassx-2.0.3-1.fc25.src.rpm

and you can have this:

keepassx-2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

I just tried it and it took only a few minutes.

> - pdfshuffler is not available for CentOS 7, only CentOS 6.

I just compiled this

ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/25/Everything/source/tree/Packages/p/pdfshuffler-0.6.0-9.fc25.src.rpm

It took about three seconds to do the whole job and now I have this:

pdfshuffler-0.6.0-9.el7.centos.noarch.rpm

You can easily do the same if you wish.  Just install rpmdevtools and any 
necessary dependencies for the rpm that you want to compile and  off you go.  
The rpmbuild command will even tell you about any missing dependencies.  For 
example, my first attempt at compiling keepassx told me:

error: Failed build dependencies:
        libXtst-devel is needed by keepassx-1:2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64
        libgcrypt-devel is needed by keepassx-1:2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64

To fix it I did this:

yum install libXtst-devel libgcrypt-devel

My next attempt to compile the keepassx rpm worked.

This isn't a guaranteed solution for absolutely every rpm or program that you 
might ever come across; sometimes you get into a dependency rabbit hole that 
never seems to end and it becomes more work than it's worth to solve.  Other 
times you get stuff that requires a newer or different version of something 
that's way too much work to upgrade or change.  But in a lot of cases, you can 
just download and compile your own rpm as needed.  As you see here, two items 
on your wish list are easily handled this way in less than five minutes.  It 
took me longer to write this email than it did to download and compile those 
programs.


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