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.
Fedora 13 Users check Fedora 13 ATI Drivers Guide » Like all ATI and Fedora users probably already knows, currently AMD’s ATI Catalyst 10.2 proprietary Linux display drivers are not working on Fedora 12. That is why I decided to write this guide for those who are fighting with ATI drivers in Fedora.
As Fedora 12 release notes says: Improvements for graphics support – Introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Better support for systems with multiple monitors. So, fortunately, the development of Fedora 12 has already been taken into account, that ATI does not hardly any development to the Linux side drivers.
What is Gnome Shell? GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience.
It provides following core interface functions:
Launching applications Opening files Switching between open windows Adding and deleting workspaces Moving windows between workspaces Dynamic system-related information display (including transient notifications) Providing a flat list of user-account related actions Logging out or switching the session, and stopping or restarting the machine GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a delightful and easy to use experience. For window management and compositing, the Gnome Shell use a Metacity branch called Mutter, which adds Clutter-based compositing to Metacity.
What is Gnome Do? GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts, or sending e-mail. It is similar to the applications GNOME Launch Box (Linux Gnome), KRunner (Linux KDE), Quicksilver (Mac OS X), LaunchBar (Mac OS X) and Butler (Mac OS X).
What is Gnome Do – Docky? Gnome Do – Docky is a nice frontend for GNOME Do (Do) which introduces an entirely new way to use Gnome Do. Docky is a graphical user interface feature that provides the user with a way of launching and switching between applications.
What is MongoDB? MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Written in C++. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide structured schemas and powerful queries).
MongoDB is very interesting document-oriented database, because it has really awesome features:
Document-oriented storage (the simplicity and power of JSON-like data schemas) Dynamic queries Full index support, extending to inner-objects and embedded arrays Query profiling Fast, in-place updates Efficient storage of binary data large objects (e.g. photos and videos) Replication and fail-over support Auto-sharding for cloud-level scalability MapReduce for complex aggregation Commercial Support, Training, and Consulting This guide shows howto install MongoDB 2.4.4 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9. Using MongoDB own YUM repositories. Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat (RHEL) RPM packages are currently available for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architectures.
PHP MongoDB (Mongo Database) Driver Installation on Linux, UNIX, BSD and Mac OS X MongoDB PHP driver is very simple install on Linux, UNIX, BSD and Mac OS X. You need just PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) with PECL repository. Normally PHP development (dev) package and PHP Pear package installation from package management system is enough to get PEAR working. Also go-pear.php script can be used.
Check that the PEAR and PECL are working with the following commands:
CentOS 7 is released, check CentOS 7.1 Netinstall guide.
CentOS 6 is released, check CentOS 6.7 Netinstall guide.
If the purpose is to upgrade from an older version of CentOS to CentOS 5.11 then read following guide: Upgrade to CentOS 5.11 From 5.10 (5.9, 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0) guide
This is CentOS (The Community ENTerprise Operating System) 5.11 Linux Network installation (NetInstall) step-by-step walkthrough with screenshots.
This is guide, howto install Adobe Flash Player Plugin version 32 (32-bit and 64-bit) with YUM/DNF on Fedora 32/31/30/29, CentOS 8.0/7.7/6.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.0/7.7/6.10. Currently only Firefox is supported and you need firefox-x11 launcher or fallback to x11. Wayland and Google Chrome/Chromium is not supported anymore.
Install Adobe Flash Player Plugin 32 Fedora 32/31/30/29, CentOS 8.0/7.7/6.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.0/7.7/6.10 1. Change Root User sudo -i ## OR ## su - 2. Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package ## Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 ## rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux ## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ## rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux 3. Install Adobe Flash Player 32 on Fedora 32/31/30/29, CentOS 8.0/7.7/6.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.0/7.7/6.10 # Fedora 32/31/30/29 # dnf install flash-plugin flash-player-ppapi alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl # CentOS/RHEL 8.0 # dnf install flash-plugin flash-player-ppapi alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl # CentOS/RHEL 7.7 # yum install flash-plugin flash-player-ppapi alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl # CentOS/RHEL 6.10 # yum install flash-plugin flash-player-ppapi nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl 4. Fedora 31 Users Install firefox-x11 launcher or Disable Wayland 4.1 Install and use firefox-x11 launcher You can install firefox-x11 launcher on Fedora using following command:
This guide shows, howto install Adobe AIR on Fedora 12, Fedora 13, CentOS 5.5, Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6. This method works on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This guide also shows howto use Adobe AIR Application Installer and install TweetDeck.
What is adobe AIR? Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications as a desktop applications, using existing HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash or Adobe Flex. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be deployed onto the desktop, rather than a fully-fledged application framework.
Fedora 13 is released. This is overview, what’s new features found on new Fedora 13 release.
Main Software Updates, Changes and Features New Software
Shotwell – Open source photo manager for GNOME Deja-dup – Déjà Dup (day-ja-doop) is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend. Pino – Twitter and Identi.ca client for Linux desktop Simple Scan – Simple Scanning Utility New Software Versions
This is simple guide, howto install tint2 version 0.11 and tint2 and tintwizard on Fedora 16/15/14 using YUM. tint2 is very good option if you want add panel / task bar / task manager on Gnome 3.0 and Gnome 3.2
tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar and tint2 development follows freedesktop specifications. tint2 is unintrusive, light and very usefull panel/taskbar program.
tint2 version 0.11 features panel with taskbar, systray, clock and battery status easy to customize : color/transparency on font, icon, border and background pager like capability : send task from one workspace to another, switch workspace multi-monitor capability : one panel per monitor, show task from current monitor customize mouse event window manager’s menu tooltip autohide clock timezones fake & real transparency Install tint2 and tintwizard 1. Change to root User su - ## OR ## sudo -i 2. Install tint2 and tintwizard yum install tint2 tintwizard 3. Start tint2 Panel/Taskbar/Task Manager with following command tint2 & Configure tint2 with tintwizard Open tintwizard GUI with following command:
CentOS 5.5 is the fifth update to the CentOS 5 distribution series. It contains a lot of bugfixes, updates and new functionality.
New Packages on CentOS 5.5 freeradius2 gsl postgresql84 python-dmidecode samba3x tunctl xz gpxe (x86_64 only) Some package updates exim 4.63 gcc 4.1.2 kernel 2.6.18 OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 php 5.1.6 xen 3.0.3 yum 3.2.22 httpd 2.2.3 Most interesting update is PostgreSQL 8.4. Of course, many have used the 8.4 version of PostgreSQL on CentOS for a long time, but now it can also be found directly on CentOS 5.5 own repositories.
This is quick guide, howto upgrade to CentOS 5.11 from CentOS 5.10 (5.9, 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0). 1. Change to root User su - ## OR ## sudo -i 2. Backup all important data Backup /etc diretory Backup important logs /var/log Backup web server configs and sites Dump MySQL databases Dump PostgreSQL databases Backup all what you need if something goes wrong 3. Check list of packages that are going to be updated yum list updates 4. Upgrade with yum update Official way to do upgrade:
This is Red Hat 6 RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) installation guide, step-by-step walkthrough with screenshots. Current version of Red Hat 6 is Beta, but also this RHEL 6 Beta version looks very stable and good OS, so that’s why I decided to write this RHEL 6 Installation guide.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta is available on the following architectures: i386 AMD64/Intel64 System z IBM Power (64-bit) Download Red Hat 6 Beta DVD images here.
This is guide with screenshots, howto install NetBeans 6.9.1 on Fedora 14, Fedora 13, Fedora 12, CentOS 5.4, CentOS 5.5, Red Hat (RHEL) 5.4, Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5, Red Hat (RHEL) 6.
What is NetBeans? The NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment) is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
I think the most easiest way to upgrade Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 is use Preupgrade, which download needed packages from the server and then just reboot to installer and after install boot the new system. This guide I use preupgrade-cli version, which works from command line. If you want use Preupgrade Graphical version then you can check this Howto upgrade Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 with Preupgrade guide, which works same way with Fedora 13 (Goddard). It’s important backup your important files before upgrading.
Package change log information is not directly available from the YUM package management. This is short guide howto enable (install) changelog plugin and use changelog information with YUM package management system.
Install YUM Changelog Plugin for Viewing Package Changelogs Install YUM Changelog Plugin on Fedora (as root) yum install yum-plugin-changelog Install YUM Changelog Plugin on CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) (as root) yum install yum-changelog Examples Howto to View Changelogs Viewing Selected Package Changelogs Viewing all glibc package changelogs
This is guide, howto install or update Opera 72.0.3815.148 browser on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). This works on Fedora 33/32/31, CentOS 8.2/7.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.2/7.8.
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Support inttf: Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf 1. Change Root User sudo -i ## OR ## su - 2. Install Opera Browser 72 on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) 2.1 Create Opera repo file Run following command (copy & paste all lines to console) to create /etc/yum.repos.d/opera.repo file:
I wrote “Howto Install ATI Drivers (Mesa 3D DRI Experimental) on Fedora 12 Linux” a few months ago, because there is no way to install ATI’s proprietary drivers on Fedora 12. And the situation is no better either with Fedora 13.
I can’t understand, that why AMD can’t publish new ATI graphics card drivers for new Linux kernels and X.org. For example, the nVidia Linux driver releases succeed as easily as the Windows drivers. Well, fortunately, there is a reasonably effective alternative for ATI’s proprietary drivers. Simply use Fedora 13 own integrated ATI radeon drivers (3D support for R600 and R700 cards and 2D support for R800 cards). This radeon drivers has moved out of experimental status on Fedora 13 release.
