Updated 26.2.2010, Read First

Currently, the latest version of the KDE desktop in Fedora is 4.3.5. I had some problems with its stability, so I decided to try out, how will work KDE 4.4.0 the latest stable version of KDE. At first I tried to install KDE 4.4 from Rawhide repository, but it failed to install from there. Here is instructions on how to install KDE 4.4 successfully using RPMFusion and KDE Packaging Project Repositories. It may be that RPMFusion repository is redundant, but KDE Packaging Project home page says: KDE-redhat packages depend on RPMFusion repository, so it’s reasonable also enable RPMFusion repository anyway.

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I noticed that the Fedora Linux with KDE desktop, has reasonably poor support for laptop touchpad adjustment. For example, the KDE > System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse options will not be able to enable vertical scrolling and touchpad tapping. So I decided to write this short guide, howto enable Touchpad vertical scrolling and tapping from command line without any GUI.

Enable Laptop Touchpad Vertical Scrolling

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This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository.

Enable Google YUM repository

Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file:
32-bit

[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

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This is a quick tip, howto find, query and list all available packages from a specific Yum repository/repositories on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL). This trick does not show the already installed packages from selected repository.

List All Repositories and Check Repository ID’s

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OpenOffice.org 3.2 is released and the new version has many new features. Example following:

• Faster Start Up Times - OpenOffice.org 3.2 Calc and Writer have both reduced 'cold start'
• ODF 1.2 Support - closer conformance to OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specifications.
• Improved Proprietary File Support - Password protected Microsoft Office XML files, Filters for AportisDoc and PocketWord now support type detection based on DocType
• Support for Postscript based OpenType fonts

This is quick guide to install OpenOffice 3.2 with using OpenOffice.org original RPM packages. Currently, for example, Fedora's rawhide repository can be found in OpenOffice.org 3.2 packages, but they refused to install properly. So it is easier to use OpenOffice.org own RPM packages.

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