What's BUILD-ESSENTIAL equivalent in FEDORA ?

1.    Needing to install the equivalent of build-essential we require in Ubuntu for Fedora is given by this command line in root mode :

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"

How to install Flash Player on Fedora 18@64 bit?

I am singling out the commands only to be run as root ie su -

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

yum check-update

yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

Thank you http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-flash-player-10-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

How to install VLC in FEDORA 18 ?

On the same lines as I installed Chrome :

su - 

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

wget http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/linuxtech.repo

yum install vlc

How to install Chrome browser in Fedora 18 ?

1.   It actually became confusing after few forums that I went to made me to "vi" etc of the repo file but then I came across a good one at http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-chromium-on-fedora-using-yum/ that made my fed 18 machine experience Chrome

 
Login to root and command the prompt as follows :

[root@localhost ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install chromium

thats it....the Chrome is ready to run....

Upgrading Fedora 17 to Fedora 18

1.   Like me so many of you would have been waiting for the final release of Fedora 18 spherical cow...but at the same time when u see it released u have so many links to move around on how to upgrade from 17 to 18 but u keep ending up with previous one....i went through the same for past hour...:-)

2.  The only set of commands Fedora 17(only) users need to put in are these :

Reach the Root first with the password ie 

su -
*******(ur password)
su -c 'rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt'


su -c 'setenforce Permissive'

su -c 'yum update yum'

su -c 'yum clean all'

su -c 'yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync'

su -c 'rpm --rebuilddb', or rpm -qa will not work due to a upgrade of rpm

3.   For me the upgrade is around 1.6 G as seen in the screen shot below :

4.   Mine is upgrading on way....another few hours should be ok....:-) all the best for your upgrade

TRUE CRYPT IN FEDORA 17: INSTALLATION

1.   The earlier version of Fedora had some token issues to deal with while installing True Crypt but not with this Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle.

2.   Few commands to be run from root after downloading the requisite version from the True Crypt site go as follows :

tar xvf truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x86.tar.gz 

yum install nss-pkcs11-devel fuse-devel wxGTK wxGTK-devel

yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-12-13.14-20.laXbNn.yumtx

yum install gnome-keyring-devel gcc-c++

export PKCS11_INC=/usr/include/gp11

./truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x86 

3.   Well if there are some token issues like shown below : 

../Common/SecurityToken.cpp:660: error: ‘CKR_NEW_PIN_MODE’ was not declared in this scope

../Common/SecurityToken.cpp:661: error: ‘CKR_NEXT_OTP’ was not declared in this scope

then you need to Open Common/SecurityToken.cpp in any editor and Scroll to line 660 and simply Comment out line 660 and 661. It should look like this after you edit:

//TC_TOKEN_ERR (CKR_NEW_PIN_MODE)

//TC_TOKEN_ERR (CKR_NEXT_OTP)

YUM INSTALLATION STEP BY STEP : RHEL 5

1.   Recently inserted one video screen recording of how the yum installation is conducted in RHEL 5.The step wise command summary goes like this :


  130  cd /media/RHEL_5.1\ i386\ DVD/
  131  cp -av /media/RHEL_5.1\ i386\ DVD/images/ /var/ftp/pub/
  132  cp -av /media/RHEL_5.1\ i386\ DVD/RPM-GPG-KEY* /var/ftp/pub/
  133  cd /var/ftp/pub/Server/
  134  rpm -ivh createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6.noarch.rpm 
  135  createrepo -v /var/ftp/pub/
  136  createrepo -g /var/ftp/pub/Server/repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml /var/ftp/pub/

2.  The start to end video is down here.Click to watch :