In Previous posts we have covered creating usb boot for fedora & ubuntu. Apart from unetbootin, you can use UltraISO to create usb boot. Following is the easy procedure to create bootable usb. 1) Connect USB device & select it int UltraISO. 2) Select Live CD iso image. 3) Click on Bootable from menu, choose [...]
Full Story »Yum – How to Exclude package update
In previous post we have covered openoffice-3.2 installation, by mow many must have noticed while running yum update, yum is trying to upgrade openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm which belongs to openoffice-3.2 installation. This package is being replaced by openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 as a result openoffice does not work, to fix you need to reinstall openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm. To avoid it further, you [...]
Full Story »Installing OpenOffice-3.2 on Fedora
Download Openoffice-3.2 from torrent / web link given below. Download Torrent Download From Web Remove Older version yum remove openoffice.org* Install Latest one su #Extract tar package & access directory cd RPMS rpm -ivh *.rpm rpm -ivh desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9472.noarch.rpm OR #Extract tar package & access directory ./setup
Full Story »Root login on Fedora
Update Works with Fedora 16 Root Login on Fedora is not as easy as Ubuntu Root Login, here you need to modify two files to get root access. You need to modify content of following files /etc/pam.d/gdm /etc/pam.d/gdm-password You’ll find pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet in above files, replace root with anything e.g test I [...]
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