If you are using a 3rd party application / package installer to install a service onto a system that using chkconfig to manage your run-levels, or writing your own which are incompatible with chkconfig. That is to say when trying to add them you get the following error: # chkconfig…
If you have a local mirror and want to use it as the mirror for preupgrade then follow the these normal steps EXCEPT do the following BEFORE you run the preupgrade(-cli) command: Download the releases.txt file used: wget http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt Modify the releases.txt file, I changed the Fedora 14 (what I’m…
Fedora is an awesome Linux distro. Chris just informed me of an awesome feature so I thought I’d blog for everyone else’s benefit and also my own 😉 When installing a kernel module through yum, instead of installing the kmod-<module> package install the akmod-<module> version e.g: sudo yum install kmod-nvidia…
A few of us here at work are using Fedora 12, two of the guys upgraded Fedora to find X not starting, seemingly a broken nvidia driver. Because they had issues I was careful about updates. But the inevitable happened.. I updated killing my Xorg. I decided I’d do a…
At the point in writing there aren’t many ways of backing up your SMS’s from your iPhone, but you do a system backup when you sync with itunes but what if you want your SMS conversions backed up as a simple non proprietary format? Well the answer is here! Shea…
I know, I know, most Fedora users probably are giving me the evil eye as they read this, but I find this tip useful when something on my desktop machine isn’t behaving properly and I want to see if it’s SELinux causing the behaviour, or if I want to stop…
There is an Australian FTP RPMFusion mirror: baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ For updates: baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ baseurl=ftp://mirror.transact.net.au/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ NOTE: This purpose of this post is simply for future reference.
By default Fedora 12 doesn’t install Sun’s Java, and it isn’t in the repository. This isn’t a mistake, in fact I think this is a good decision! Fedora is only dealing with free open source software. You can add other repositories to give you the extra non OSS software you…
By default Fedora 12 comes with the nouveau driver.. which is awesome, but my machine at work needed a bit more video card grunt so I needed to install the Nvidia driver. Now I’m new to Fedora.. as in installed it an hour before I wrote this post, so thought…