So you’ve installed the latest development builds of Chromium for Fedora Linux. The only thing lacking is that youtube is not loading. If not, what are you waiting for? Refer to one of my previous posts.
First make sure you install the Adobe yum repository.
As root:-
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Then install the flash plugin.
yum install flash-plugin.i386
The flash plugin [...]
July 18, 2009 - 8:39 pm
Tags: bind, caching-nameserver, caching-only, chroot, fedora, fedora 11, How To, Linux, named, nameserver
Posted in How To, Linux | 5 comments
Having a caching only name-server on your local Machine speeds up your browsing. Here’s how to set up a slightly more secure caching server using ISC Bind in Fedora 11.
Install bind and bind-chroot packages
# yum install bind bind-chroot
Edit your /etc/sysconfig/named file.
# vim /etc/sysconfig/named
Add the following line:
ROOTDIR="/var/named/chroot"
Edit your /etc/named.conf file.
# vim /etc/named.conf
Change the following line:
listen-on port [...]
Many people use dynamic dns for different purposes. I use it to give my home machine a public presence. I choose DynDNS for my needs. Its a leader in this segment and have been around for a long time.
First, you’ll need to register for a free account at their site. Once you’ve chosen a domain [...]
After installing Fedora, or most linuxes, you may realise that the Windows key that you used during the unenlightened days doesnt work anymore. Even worse, you cannot seem to use it as part of you Keyboard shortcuts. Gives some weird irony when reading about Dead Keys.
Enabling the Windows Key is easy, Just go to System [...]
There are 2 ways I know of to search for a particular program to install in Linux. As usual, I’ll be focusing on the Command Line Interface (CLI).
So, you’ve heard about the versatile port scanning tool called nmap and want to install it in Fedora Linux. The only problem is, you don’t know if it [...]
After reading my previous post, the next question that’s bound to crop up is How do I use a download accelerator with my premium rapidshare share account in linux?
Being a command line junkie, I prefer using the terminal for my downloading needs. Let me introduce you to Aria2. As from the website.
aria2 [...]
By default, guest hosts running in VirtualBox on Fedora 11 cannot mount or see usb devices plugged into your machine. A few tweaks are necessary for USB support to work.
Edit your /etc/rc.sysinit file, change line no 26 from
mount -n -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
to
mount -t usbfs -o remount,devgid=$(awk -F: ‘/^vboxusers:/{print $3}’ /etc/gr oup),devmode=664 [...]
When trying to install VirtualBox 3.0 in Fedora 11 32bit, you may encounter this error:-
[root@atreides ~]# rpm -ivh VirtualBox-2.2.4_47978_fedora11-1.i586.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:VirtualBox ########################################### [100%]
Creating group ‘vboxusers’. [...]
Google has its open source version of its Chrome browser, currently under heavy development. The open source version is called Chromium.
Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, the Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser.
To install chromium, create a chromium.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo
Then fill it up with this:-
[chromium]
name=Chromium [...]
March 9, 2009 - 1:19 pm
Tags: apt, Linux, ubuntu, yum.
Posted in Linux | No comments
After deciding that compiling Boxee for Fedora was quite a futile attempt, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on my desktop PC, just to run it.
One of the first things I needed to do was install the latest updates for it. Thats when I realised that I didn’t know nuts about software installation in Ubuntu, [...]
July 27, 2009 - 1:15 am
Good tip…. Will surely come in handy