Blog system
by Luc MAIGNAN
Hi,
I want to install a blog on a fedora server to display informations and
let users put comments.
What is the best package to do that ?
BR
13 years, 1 month
3D Chess screen saver
by Aaron Gray
I am looking for an old screensaver that I believe was OpenGL on Fedora that
was a chess board.
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
13 years, 1 month
what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”
by erikmccaskey64
I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a few websites:
{ +redirect{s@http://@https://@} }
.twitter.com
.facebook.com
Ok! it's working great, e.g.: if i visit any "*twitter.com" URL it gets redirected to HTTPS!
But: with wireshark i can see some "OCSP" packets [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Protocol ]
Question: What are these packets? Why aren't there in HTTPS?
Is my redirection method with privoxy is secure?
Thank you for any tips/opinions!
13 years, 1 month
Fedora 15 alpha desktop login issue after update
by Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula
Hello,
I have installed fedora 15 alpha x86_64 on my laptop.
After an update ( new gnome-shell = 2.91.91), I did a reboot.
I am unable to login with proper credentials through gdm(possible bug in
gdm,as
I saw gdm being updated as well).
please look into it .
Thanks
Vamsi
13 years, 1 month
Installation Impressions
by Nikolaus Rath
Hello,
I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora
14. I want to share a couple of impressions:
I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image.
Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vmlinuz
and initrd.img from the .iso and bootet into it using my existing grub2
setup.
The first surprise came when the installer asked me where to install
from. I downloaded the network image, so I thought it'd be obvious that
I wanted to install from the network.
Lacking any URL or NFS server address, I figured that maybe the
installer is asking for the netinstall image itself? That'd be weird,
but seemed the most reasonable explanation.
Unfortunately, I am not able to use the downloaded disk image because
at this point the installer doesn't have LVM support. Brr.
Rebooted, copied the network image into NFS share, booted into the
installer again.
Now the installer reports that it can't mount the share. This is
obviously wrong, because if I try to specify the filename of the
netimage rather than just the directory, the installer complains that
this isn't the right file.
Grmbl. Reboot, read the documentation again. Ok, apparently I should be
able to manually enter the URL of a Fedora mirror. So I grab I piece of
paper and write down
http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_86/os/
Reboot, back into the installer. I am wondering why the hell I have to
enter this. The installer knows what I'm trying to install, and it should be
able to figure out where the closest mirror is.
Crash. I forgot that I downloaded the netboot image for i386. Why isn't
the installer warning me that install.img that it downloaded doesn't
work with the booted kernel?
Reboot, typed the correct address. Now I'm in a graphical mode that
knows LVM.
I'm warned about the installer not being able to update my existing
installation, but there is no existing Fedora installation. Well,
whatever.
Now the installer asks for the password of my LUKS encrypted swap
partition. Unfortunately the password is chosen at random on every boot.
It gives a really scary error message that it will not be able to use
this storage device which doesn't seem appropriate to me.
I chose manual partitioning. The installer asks me for the LUKS password
again and gives a scary error again. Now I'm trying to use the swap
partition for Fedora as well. I double click on it, and select "format
as swap", "encrypted". Doesn't seem to have any effect, there is no
indication that Fedora will actually use the device, and when I'm
reopening the dialog then my settings are gone.
Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer
complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just
fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway,
so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead.
There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space
that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left.
At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is
a Fedora installation always that painful?
Best,
-Nikolaus
--
»Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«
PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C
13 years, 1 month
How to install openoffice?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Using f14.x64
I'm trying to install a basic openoffice package with calc and whatever
reads .pps files.
yum install openoffice.org* gives me this:
Install 332 Package(s)
Total download size: 874 M
Installed size: 2.3 G
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Is this for real? I don't have much use for hundreds? of language packs
(my Gurkali is a bit rusty).
Does anybody know the magic yum incantation to install something
reasonable? 332 packages just doesn't feel reasonable to me.
TIA,
Mike Wright
13 years, 1 month
RE: tty rows colums
by Alan Gagne
> I use gnome environment .
>
> The xterm has 80 columns and 24 rows
>
> While I enter Ctrl+Alt+F2 to use a whole scream for some edits.
> This tty has 180 columns and 56 rows.
>
> How can I resize it to 80 columns and 24 rows.
>
> Early I use some skills in grub , it works .
> Is there another way?
Have you tried stty ?
stty --help
man stty
$ stty cols 80 rows 24
Alan
13 years, 1 month
gnome program
by 嘉谟
I can use gcc -o xx xx `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 `
Now I need to do some programs with gnome .Which need gnome.h
I compiled like
gcc gnome1.c -o gnome1 `pkg-config --cflags --libs libgnome-2.0
libgnomeui-2.0`
Which shows:
Package libgnome-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnome-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgnome-2.0' found
Package libgnomeui-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnomeui-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found
gnome1.c:1:19: fatal error: gnome.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
As i thought I use gnome why system not contain gnome.h
It is easy for somebody .
When i lose some file . How can i find the correct name to yum install
or find source file .
13 years, 1 month
tty rows colums
by 嘉谟
I use gnome environment .
The xterm has 80 columns and 24 rows
While I enter Ctrl+Alt+F2 to use a whole scream for some edits.
This tty has 180 columns and 56 rows.
How can I resize it to 80 columns and 24 rows.
Early I use some skills in grub , it works .
Is there another way?
13 years, 1 month
How to change screen resolution
by Triadi Krisnawan
Dear Experts,
My machine is using Fedora. The current resolution display is 1024x768_60Hz and it shows flickerring every now and then.
I know that the max screen resolution can handle is 1280x1024_60Hz but I cant change it by simply go to display preference.
Under the display preferences the max resolution option is 1024x768 which is currently use.
At the back of the machine, the display output is DVI port but then the installation here is converted to VGA port (via DVI to VGA adapter) and from the VGA port comes to a VGA splitter then connected to 3 monitors.
Yesterday I did try to modify the xorg.conf file as following (the one that I added is on the red)
Section "Monitor" (mon "0")
...
...
Modeline "1280x1024_60"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60"
Section "Screen"
...
...
Modes "1280x1024_60"
>From the above list, the first modification that I enter on the xorg.conf file was the Option under the "Monitor" section and the Modes under the "Screen" section. After I rebooted, the resolution was not changing. It still doing the same.
Then After I added the "Modeline" and did reboot. The system was hung up at the fedora symbol.
I managed to restore back the original xorg.conf by went to the single user mode.
It's now up and running again with the original resolution 1024x768 and it still flickering.
Do I enter a wrong format under the Modeline? Or is there any other way to set the resolution up to max in fedora?
Please kindly help,
Triadi
13 years, 1 month