This post describes how to upgrade svn server using source. It works to upgrade subversion 1.7 to 1.8. tar jxvf subversion-1.8.tar.bz2 ./configure –bindir=/bin –sbindir=/sbin –with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs –with-apache-libexecdir=/usr/lib/httpd/modules/ make make install
Full Story »Ubuntu 12.10 – Switch to MATE
Ubuntu 12.10 – Switch to MATE. This post will help you to switch from Unity to Mate Desktop on Ubuntu 12.10 Install MATE #ADD Anyone sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu quantal main" sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu quantal main" sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu quantal main" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo [...]
Full Story »Install Citrix XenServer using PXE
This post covers how to Install Citrix XenServer using pxe. As a prerequisite you need to have tftp server configured. Create tftp dir for xenserver mkdir -p /tftpboot/images/xenserver Mount & copy required boot files from xenserver iso mount -o loop /downloads/XenServer-6.1-install-cd.iso /tmp/cd/ cd /tftpboot/images/xenserver cp `find /tmp/cd/ -name install.img` ./ cp `find /tmp/cd/ -name vmlinuz` [...]
Full Story »How to Disable Graphical Boot & Shutdown on Fedora
If you are not a fan of graphical boot / shutdown & wish to disable it, this post will explain how to disable. sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/grub #change from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || 
rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet" #change to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || [...]
Fedora 18 switch to MATE Desktop
Fedora 18 is released with support for MATE desktop. For previous release one had to install MATE from third party repository. Whereas with latest version you can get MATE support with single command. To install MATE yum groupinstall MATE Like me if you are not willing to use Gnome 3 at all, you can remove [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 using fedup OR fedora-upgrade
Apart from using yum upgrade, you can also use fedup OR fedora-upgrade to upgrade fedora to latest version available. Using fedup With fedora 18 fedup replaces preuprade utility. It basically downloads boot images & required packages to upgrade from all repositories like rpmforge, dropbox etc. Once packages are downloaded you’ll be asked to reboot machine. [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 -using shell
This post explains howto Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 using shell. 32bit rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/i386/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-18-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade yum* -y yum upgrade -y 64bit rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-18-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade yum* -y yum upgrade -y Here I had to remove qt-X11 to resolve yum upgrade error, qt-X11 was being used by [...]
Full Story »Mirror SVN Repository – For 1.7.x
This will not work on subversion 1.8 as svnsync doesn’t support http sync. Mirror SVN Repository can be useful to offload server or If you have developers at different location OR you have requirement to keep offsite mirror ready for recovery. I have used svn proxy. It works fine, but this can not be used [...]
Full Story »Fix Vnc Client blank screen on Mate Desktop – Fedora
By default when you run vncserver on Fedora box running gnome, you get desktop on vnc client connections. Whereas with MATE as the only desktop environment, you’ll not get any display on vnc connection. All you get it blank screen. This is probably due to Mate-session is not mentioned in xstartup. To get display on [...]
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