Tora installation on Fedora 16 with rpm

2012-02-09 1 min read Database Fedora
[][1]Image via Wikipedia Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner: rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm" But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this. Related articles Unrar in Fedora… (gryphon143.wordpress.com) Fedora Utils just got easier (funsurf.wordpress.com) rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros. (amit-agarwal.co.in)

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: [][2]cdu screenshot Related articles Quickly install most of the things that you need on Fedora. Continue reading

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

rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora
Lets first install the rpmorphan package: 1 <td> <div class="bash codecolorer"> &nbsp;<span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan </div> </td> </tr> </table> 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: Continue reading

Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux

2010-08-26 1 min read Fedora Linux
?Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux &#8221;The long wait is over and Linux users can finally use the Gmail Videochat! The <a class="zem_slink" title="Gmail" rel="homepage" href="http://gmail.com">GMail team recently announced the availability of voice and <a class="zem_slink" title="Videoconferencing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing">video chat on Linux. This feature is currently supported on <a class="zem_slink" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu and other <a class="zem_slink" title="Debian" rel="homepage" href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian-based <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distributions. <a class="zem_slink" title="RPM Package Manager" rel="homepage" href="http://rpm. Continue reading