With the latest version of Fedora 16, you’ll find many core changes which definitely improves performance but it becomes difficult to understand / make things working. Few such examples are changing a boot sequence Increasing Loop Devices Now I came across another to make rc.local working. I did not realized this when I upgraded from [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 15 to 16 -using shell
To upgrade fedora to latest version F16, run following commands. yum -y update rpm –import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade -y If you get error, you may continue using –skip-broken. I was getting following error, hence had to remove libnih Error: Package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.i686 (@fedora/15) yum remove libnih Or the easiest way would be to [...]
Full Story »Fedora 16 – How to change boot sequence -Grub2
This is for dual boot os users, there are many who prefers dual boot to keep another OS optional. For any reason if you wish to change boot sequence unlike grub, grub2 requires couple of commands to run. Here will take example to keep Windows as default boot. First of all find menuentry for Windows [...]
Full Story »Fedora 15- Howto Switch to LXDE & Fix Resolution
Install Following command will help you to switch to LXDE. yum groupinstall LXDE -y Once lxde is installed, you need to relogin your user with lxde session. Resolution Once LXDE is installed, you might find your desktop resolution switched to 1024×768 everytime you reboot / relogin. To make 1280×1024 resolution permanent. Add following command in [...]
Full Story »Fedora 15- Howto Switch to Xfce
For any given reason, if you wish to switch to Xfce from gnome3, all you need is to run following command to get Xfce enabled. yum groupinstall Xfce -y Once Xfce is installed, you need to relogin your user with Xfce session.
Full Story »Howto Install Adobe Air on Fedora / Ubuntu
Fedora If you already have flash plugin installed using yum you can install adobe air using following command. Else you’ll need download & install yum package from adobe download yum install adobeair -y Ubuntu For Ubuntu you need to enable partner repository (if not enabled yet). add-apt-repository ‘deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu natty partner’ Or you can manually [...]
Full Story »Howto Install iotop on Ubuntu, CentOS & Fedora
Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on Ubuntu sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Edit source list & uncomment universe repo. e.g deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty universe deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-updates universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty-security universe [...]
Full Story »Howto Unlock Desktop -Fedora 15
If you wish to continue your habit of filling desktop with files & folders, tweak tool will help you unlock gnome 3 desktop. Install Gnome tweak tool yum install gnome-tweak-tool -y Let file manager handle desktop Credits
Full Story »Howto Power Off Fedora 15
Right after installing / upgrading to Fedora 15, you may not find option to power off, if your computer supports suspend. You can still get shutdown option by… Click on Right Top (User Name) Press ALT Key Suspend will change to Shutdown. If you prefer to add shutdown permanently. yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu -y Once package [...]
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