Upgrading FC6 -> F7 is not painless at all (whereas FC5 -> FC6 was a breeze). The things that needed sorting out were : Samba shares no longer work – not sure why. Quickest to rebuild /etc/samba/smb.conf rather than sort it out properly. xorg.conf file fails (causing even greeter login to fail). Probably due to [...]

Somehow, configuration files on FC6 no longer work on F7. Seems best to scrap it all and use the system-config-samba tool to build it all again. This sucks.

This was modified for the instructions given for 4.2 from the (German) blog at http://fedorawiki.de/index.php/Truecrypt Set up yum # yum install yum-utils# yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config unifdef Install Kernel Sources This install the sources from the rpm downloaded into the current directory. The rpm can be discarded afterwards. # yumdownloader –source kernel –enablerepo core-source –enablerepo [...]

Need to download and install RPM directly from SourceForge (noarch version).

# curl -O http://camorama.fixedgear.org/downloads/camorama-0.18.tar.bz2# bunzip2 camorama-0.18.tar.bz2 # tar -xf camorama-0.18.tar # cd camorama-0.18# ./configure# yum install libgnomeui-devel### possibly also : yum install gdk-pixbuf libglade glade2 # make# make install$ camorama & $ (Need to set save directory for image grabs to /home/xyz/WebCam, instead of ~/WebCam)

There are two versions of the QuickCam Communicate, the newer of which shows up as 046d:08d7 under lsusb . This version needs gspca module. Install kernel headers # yum install kernel-devel Build and install from gspcavl sources The source can be found on the main download page. cd gspcav1-20070110makemake installmodprobe gspcalsmod | grep gsp Check [...]

This was wholesale copied from the (German) blog at http://fedorawiki.de/index.php/Truecrypt Set up yum # yum install yum-utils# yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config unifdef # yumdownloader –source kernel –enablerepo core-source –enablerepo updates-source Install Kernel Sources # mkdir /usr/src/redhat # due to packaging problem, I guess# rpm -ivh kernel-$(uname -r).src.rpm # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpmbuild -bp –target $(uname -m) [...]

# yum install qt-devel# QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3; export QTDIR # yum install libsndfile-devel# yum install flac-devel# ./configure # make src/lib/xml/tinyxml.h:828: error: extra qualification ‘TiXmlDeclaration::’ on member ‘TiXmlDeclaration’ Problem : GCC 4 is giving us problems with hydrogen-0.9.3 Patch : # scite src/lib/xml/tinyxml.h & @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ /// Construct.- TiXmlDeclaration::TiXmlDeclaration( const char * _version,+ TiXmlDeclaration( const char [...]

Many people will find it handy to have MS TrueType fonts available to make sure many websites render correctly. You can download the latest RPM from http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#ttf and install it as follows: # wget –referer=http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html \ http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/files/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm# rpm -ihv msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm# /etc/init.d/xfs restart

Even though the official instructions advise against it, it works fairly smoothly. In particular : ‘americas’ doesn’t have a (non-USB) DVD drive, and won’t boot of the USB external DVD-R; ‘cello’ and ‘flute’ are remote servers, so popping in the DVD is impossible. Here’s a transcript of the not-so-smooth part : # yum install yum-fastestmirror# [...]