June 17, 2007
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 [...]
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June 16, 2007
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.
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April 24, 2007
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 updates-source# mkdir /usr/src/redhat # [...]
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February 10, 2007
Need to download and install RPM directly from SourceForge (noarch version).
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February 9, 2007
# 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)
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February 6, 2007
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 it works
Load up Ekiga, and select [...]
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February 6, 2007
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) kernel-2.6.spec
Copy dm.h into the right place
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January 27, 2007
# 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 * _version,
make now [...]
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January 23, 2007
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
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January 7, 2007
I never asked for beagle to be installed (must be standard in FC6). Apparently it’s a mono application that likes to take over the machine with 100% CPU usage…
Simple solution :yum remove beagle
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