tora on Fedora 16 for mysql and Oracle.

2012-02-06 1 min read Database Fedora

Sometime back I had posted a article on Tora on Fedora. But that was a while back and things have progressed and we already have Fedora 16 (aka Verne).

So, awhile back I installed Tora on my Fedora 16 and here are the steps to do so:

First get the Tora sources from sourceforge.net . Download the source tar file and extract the same.

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Color disk usage on Fedora

2012-01-21 1 min read Fedora

For this tip, you would need to setup the rpm-shere repository. You can get the information here. Once you have done that you need to install the cdu package with the following command:

sudo yum install cdu

And then you can use “cdu” to view the disk usage in all beautiful colors with the command:

cdu

and the output looks like this:

[cdu screenshot][2]
cdu screenshot
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Interesting repository for Fedora.

2012-01-18 1 min read Fedora

Here is one repository that you can add to your Fedora to give it a few more hundred packages:

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/rpm-sphere.repo <<EOF
[rpm-sphere]
name=RPM Sphere
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/
gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
EOF
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Consistent ethernet device names in Verne

2011-12-13 1 min read Fedora
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Image via Wikipedia

Fedora now supports consistent device names across the network with bios device names for the ethernet devices. If you upgraded your earlier version of Fedora then you may need to go to root access to get this working.

Here is what you need to do:

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rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora
Lets first install the rpmorphan package:
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and here is the description of the package:
rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines
which packages have no other packages depending on their installation,
and shows you a list of these packages.  It intends to be clone of
deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages.

It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example:

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Add ssh key to remote host

2011-11-15 3 min read Bash Learning Linux Solaris

Example of tunnelling an X11 application over SSH
Image via Wikipedia

If you are working on recent versions of the *nix OS like Fedora or Ubuntu then you would know about the commad ssh-copy-id. But if you land up using one of the older versions like Solaris or something where the command is not present, then probably you need a simpler solution to this. One of the simplest solution is with a lot of assumtions, simply copy the id_rsa file to remote server and hope it works. And here is  a script to do just that:

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Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora.

2011-10-30 1 min read Fedora
easyLife is a user friendly program that installs packages on Fedora as well as adjustments most users want. It makes new users’ experience easy and fun, providing the means to set the OS up quickly and painless.
This app does not really require any more introduction.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/

[Easy Linux for Fedora][1]
Easy Linux for Fedora
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