I run https://jamesmcdonald.id.au with a self signed untrusted certificate because I'm not using it for commerce and the only person who needs to trust it is me! But after installing Fedora 9 on a laptop and trying to connect to my website. I didn't get the normal add...
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Can’t find adsl-setup script in Fedora 8
I have just been trying to find the good old adsl-setup command in Fedora 8. No good! system-config-network was a no go either. No option to configure a pppoe connection. pppoe-setup looks like it has replaced adsl-setup. Problem solved move along. Nothing to see...
Error: Missing Dependency: libc-client.so.2006 is needed by package php-imap
Error: Missing Dependency: libc-client.so.2006 is needed by package php-imap To fix it I did: # remove the package that is causing the complaint yum remove php-imap # do the update yum update # install php-imap it will then pull in the correct version of...
Changing Gnomes annoying multi-window file browse behaviour
If you don't like to open a new window (spatial mode) for each sub folder you open. Then the following change stops that behaviour and gives you the "Gnome File Browser" instead of that annoying little window (presentation mode). Open the Gnome File Browser and then...
Fedora 7 – Amavisd Fails to Start
Nov 03 2007 Update - Amavisd again failed to start after an update same error again. This resolved the problem. I just did an yum update to Fedora 7 and rebooted seems that amavisd wasn't starting the complaint was about Compress::Zlib not loading. Long story short...
Compiling xfburn on Fedora 7
Fedora sevens xfce4 package is a steaming pile of incompleteness. Here are very rough steps to getting xfburn going. wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libburn-1/libburn-0.3.2.tar.bz2 wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libisofs-1/libisofs-0.2.4.tar.bz2 do...
Fedora 7 – So far behind Ubuntu it’s being lapped
I run xfce4 on Fedora 7. Where as xubuntu provides a complete "I can do anything GNOME|KDE can do" environment. Fedora 7's install appears to be a nod to marketing i.e. "Oh yes we have xfce4 aswell" Well it bites.... Although I love the redhat config tool structure...
Fedora Kernel Upgrade Causes Desktop Clock to Stick
Lastnight did an update to my computer to kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 and rebooted. Following the reboot my desktop clock in both GNOME and XFCE4 seemed to get stuck and not proceed forward. If I issued the date command from a terminal the time seemed correct. The...
Can’t change Wine Sound Driver from OSS to ALSA using winecfg
I just had an issue where I couldn't use the winecfg app to change my default audio driver. It seemed to be locked onto OSS and my system is ALSA. My setup is wine-0.9.41 and Wine Doors version 0.1 on Fedora 7. I tried using vi to change ~/.wine/user.reg...
Firefox Downloads Change from Nautilus to Thunar for “Open Containing Folder” option Fedora 7
I use XFCE4 and one annoying thing was firefox was opening Nautilus when clicking the Open Containing Folder option in the Firefox Download dialog box The fix: Using a Terminal open nautilus In Nautilus right click on a "folder" object in the window of Nautilus....
Yum – Unhelpful Reply
Yum has a few things needing fixing. For example: I have smolt-0.9.8.3-1.fc7 installed but if I do yum install smolt it replies Nothing to do Logically you would assume that this "Nothing to do" message means "I already have that package installed" but NO. If I do a...
cups-pdf Fedora 7 changing directory pdf is outputted to
While installing cups-pdf using yum install cups-pdf I got this error: cut: write error: Broken pipe Installed: cups-pdf.i386 0:2.4.6-1.fc7 But it didn't seem to effect the install. However the default directory cups-pdf for F7 outputs to is $HOME/Desktop... I hate...
Stopping Yum Updating Certain Packages
I recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org's 2.2.1 The next upgrade YUM wanted to do was going to downgrade it back to 2.2.0-14. etc. To stop YUM doing this I added the following into the '[main]' section of /etc/yum.conf exclude=openoffice.org* Information is...
wxWidgets & wxPerl Install Notes Fedora 7
Note: These Notes don't yet give a working F7 wxPerl environment. I am currently trying the wxperl-users mailing list to see if I can get some information on why Media.pm isn't being compiled/installed. I am having all sorts of problems trying to get the latest...
squirrelmail ‘/usr/games/fortune’ is not found.
In the Fedora version of Squirrelmail if you turn the fortune plugin on to get a quote on the top of your mail folders you may get the following error: /usr/games/fortune is not found. This is because Fedora puts fortune in /usr/bin the...
Madman Music Manager Rocks
I have been using madman for indexing and organising my music and recordings for about three years. Each time a new distribution comes out I sometimes need to recompile it. Which I did recently for Fedora 7. I did at one stage write a spec file and get it all nicely...
Configure bluefish to use exo-open
If you have a default install of bluefish on Fedora 7. It is probably configured to use mozilla as the default browser and may have some rather complex command line to launch a browser and display the file you are working on. exo-open from the XFCE4 project takes a...
dnsmasq setup Fedora Core 7
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html I do the following. Normally the local machine queries /etc/resolv.conf for DNS servers. dnsmasq in turn queries resolv.conf for it's dns servers and can serve clients on the LAN their DNS/DHCP requests I want the machine...