Libre office
by Richard Vickery
Is there someone to email to for a suggestion for improving Libre office?
It would sure be nice if the program did a grammar check and made
suggestions on how to improve one's document. I haven't used MS Word for as
long as I've used Linux, and I really miss the grammar-check that it did.
10 years, 4 months
Fedora-20 beta -
by Bob Goodwin
What do I do with a Fedora-20 beta install to update it? It was updated
early this morning and I suspect it is now the equivalent of the new
release.
Will I have problems with yum updates?
Presently it shows: [bobg@box10 ~]$ uname -a
Linux box10 3.11.10-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 29 19:16:48 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[bobg@box10 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Indications are it's Fedora-20 as it is ...
I haven't found this mentioned in a Google search, perhaps I didn't use
the right keyword/phrase.
Suggestions please.
Bob
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10 years, 4 months
qmake
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Is there a qmake package for fedora?
I found stuff for windows but nothing for linux!
Thank.
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
===========================================================================
10 years, 4 months
Fwd: Version upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 20
by Lars Poulsen
I have been gradually updating my Fedora servers from a variety of
releases ranging to F14 to F18 to more current versions. In order to do
these as in-place updates rather than re-installs (which saves many
headaches) I have had to do this gradually. Most are now running F19
with one "pioneer" at F20. But one that started at F14 seems to be stuck
at F17, since F17 has been archived, and thus I cannot do "yum install
fedup" since the links in /etc/yum.fedora.repo are now invalid.
What is the best workaround? I know that once I have fedup installed, I
can go to F19 with a minimum of hassle (mostly the apache config file
restructuring, but that machine does not run apache anyway). Bu thow do
I get there?
- can I find the F17 fedup rpm in archive.fedoraproject.org and just
install it manually?
- can I update the /etc/yum.fedora.repo file to point to the archived set?
(Can you send me a working file?)
Lars Poulsen
Afar Communications Inc
10 years, 4 months
F20 on iMac: plymouthd runs, clearing screen unexpectedly
by Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks,
I have installed Fedora 20 on an iMac alongside Mac OS 10.5.8, and it
works fine, except for the grub2 bugs 903937, 893179, 904668, and most
problematic, the unexpected appearance of plymouthd clearing the
screen, and putting a fedora booting-up image in the middle of the
screen. This happens with either XFCE or gnome shell, and occurs some
time after logging in and doing some work. I can get rid of it by
killing plymouthd.
Any ideas on how to investigate the cause, and to troubleshoot this?
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10 years, 4 months
another FedUp issue
by SternData
I wiped out the failed fedup (deleted stuff from grub.con and /var/tmp/)
and tried again with fedup from updates-testing. This time, I got errors
after fedup ran:
WARNING: problems were encountered during transaction test:
broken dependencies
libreoffice-pdfimport-1:4.1.3.2-12.fc19.x86_64 requires
poppler-0.22.1-5.fc19.x86_64
libreoffice-core-1:4.1.3.2-12.fc19.x86_64 requires
boost-date-time-1.53.0-14.fc19.x86_64
ufraw-gimp-0.19.2-10.fc19.x86_64 requires cfitsio-3.340-1.fc19.x86_64
gnome-shell-extension-xrandr-indicator-3.8.4-1.fc19.noarch requires
gnome-shell-extension-common-3.8.4-1.fc19.noarch
Continue with the upgrade at your own risk.
I think I'm going to put off a fedup to f20 for a while.
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-- Steve
10 years, 4 months
strange warnings in .xsession-errors
by Frank McCormick
I am running Mate (and Cinnamon) on Fedora 19...and lately
noticed these errors in my .xsession-errors file when I am in Mate
Does anyone know what's behind them ?
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
/home/frank/.config/autostart/sealertauto.desktop: Key file does not
have key 'Type'
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: could not read
/home/frank/.config/autostart/sealertauto.desktop
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
/home/frank/.config/autostart/blueman.desktop: Key file does not have
key 'Name'
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: could not read
/home/frank/.config/autostart/blueman.desktop
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
/home/frank/.config/autostart/print-applet.desktop: Key file does not
have key 'Name'
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: could not read
/home/frank/.config/autostart/print-applet.desktop
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
/home/frank/.config/autostart/gdesklets.desktop: Key file does not have
key 'Name'
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: could not read
/home/frank/.config/autostart/gdesklets.desktop
mate-session[2557]: EggSMClient-WARNING: Invalid Version string '0.9.4'
in /home/frank/.config/autostart/Compiz.desktop
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
/home/frank/.config/autostart/spice-vdagent.desktop: Key file does not
have key 'Name'
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: could not read
/home/frank/.config/autostart/spice-vdagent.desktop
mate-session[2557]: EggSMClient-WARNING: Invalid Version string '0.9.4'
in /home/frank/.config/autostart/Window Manager.desktop
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file
/home/frank/.config/autostart/xfce4-clipman-plugin-autostart.desktop:
Key file does not have key 'Name'
mate-session[2557]: WARNING: could not read
/home/frank/.config/autostart/xfce4-clipman-plugin-autostart.desktop
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10 years, 4 months
Job opportunities at Lancaster University Library
by Khokhar, Masud
With apologies for cross posting, these jobs may be of relevance to the audience on this list.
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Job opportunities at Lancaster University Library
2 new roles
Digital developer (Library)
Salary: £31,644 - £36,611
Closing date 6 January 2014
Join a fast paced-responsive team using agile methodologies to innovate in a rapidly evolving environment. Responsible for developing, enhancing and supporting library technologies and services to improve users' digital experience. Advanced technical skills especially in web-based applications essential.
Research data and repository manager
Salary: £31,644 - £36,611
Closing date 8 January 2014
Responsible for developing services, procedures, advice and training to support research data management and the institutional repository. You will have good background knowledge of these areas plus excellent analytical and organisational abilities and strong interpersonal skills to work with academic researchers and across teams.
Further details from http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancies.aspx
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Thanks,
Masud
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Head of Digital Innovation
The Library, Lancaster University
Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YH
Tel: (01524) 5-94236
Email: masud.khokhar(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:masud.khokhar@lancaster.ac.uk>
10 years, 4 months
[Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 20.]
by Mike Chambers
FYI for those that don't know yet.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Robyn Bergeron <rbergero(a)redhat.com>
To: announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, devel-announce
<devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, test-announce
<test-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 20.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:02:30 -0500 (EST)
Greetings!
We can say with great certainty the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 20 ("Heisenbug"), which coincides with the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Fedora Project.
Download this leading-edge, free and open source operating system now:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
Detailed information about this release can be seen in the release notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/index.html
*** Dedicated to Seth Vidal ***
On July 8, the Fedora Project lost Seth Vidal, a dedicated, tireless, and brilliant contributor. Seth was a lead developer of Yum and the Fedora update repository system. He worked to ensure that the technical and community infrastructure of Fedora worked well and consistently for users and contributors around the world. Seth touched the lives of hundreds of Fedora contributors directly and millions of others indirectly by improving the experience of using and updating Fedora.
The Fedora Project dedicates the Fedora 20 release to Seth and asks that you join us in remembering his generous spirit and incredible work that helped make Fedora what it is today. We miss you, Seth.
*** 10 Years of Fedora ***
The Fedora 20 release coincides with Fedora's tenth anniversary. The first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 2003. The Fedora Project community has grown into an active and vibrant one that produces a new version of this leading-edge, free and open source operating system around every six months.
*** Desktop Environments and Spins ***
The Fedora Project strives to provide the best desktop experiences possible for users, from desktop environment to application selection. We also produce nearly a dozen spins tailor-made for desktop users, hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and early classroom environments.
Spins are available for download here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins
== GNOME 3.10 ==
Fedora 20 comes with GNOME 3.10, which has several new applications and features that will please GNOME-lovers. This release includes a new music application (gnome-music), a new maps application (gnome-maps), a revamp for the system status menu, and Zimbra support in Evolution.
== KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 ==
The Fedora KDE SIG has rebased to KDE 4.11 for Fedora 20. This release includes faster Nepomuk indexing, improvements to Kontact, KScreen integration in KWin, Metalink/HTTP support for KGet, and much more.
== Spins ==
Spins are alternate versions of Fedora. In addition to various desktop environments for Fedora, spins are also available as tailored environments for various types of users via hand-picked application sets or customizations.
See all of the Fedora 20 Release Spins here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins
*** ARM as a Primary Architecture ***
While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over the years, x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora users and for the Linux community in general.
ARM, however, has been making massive strides. It already dominates the mobile market, is becoming a go-to platform for hobbyists and makers, and is showing enormous promise for the server market as well.
In keeping with Fedora's commitment to innovation, the Fedora community has been pushing to make ARM a primary architecture to satisfy the needs of users and developers targeting the ARM platform.
*** Cloud and Virtualization Improvements ***
The Fedora 20 release continues the Fedora tradition of adopting and integrating leading edge technologies used in cloud computing. This release includes features that will make working with virtualization and cloud computing much easier.
== First-Class Cloud Images ==
The Fedora Cloud SIG has been working hard to provide images that are well-suited for running as guests in public and private clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack.
If you're using public or private cloud, you should grab one of the downloadable Cloud Images or find a supported EC2 image, here:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#clouds
== VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager ==
Taking VM snapshots is now much easier. Though qemu and libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, there isn't any simple, discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved, including adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and rebasing to external snapshots.
== ARM on x86 with libvirt/virt-manager ==
You can now run ARM VMs on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools: libvirt virsh, virt-manager and virt-install.
*** Big Data ***
The Fedora 20 release includes all the packages you need to run Apache Hadoop 2.2.0. Hadoop is a widely used, increasingly complete big data platform with a strong, growing community and ecosystem. The Hadoop packages included with Fedora 20 will provide a foundation for immediate use of Hadoop and a base for the rest of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
*** Developer Goodness ***
As always, Fedora 20 includes new features and updated packages that will be of interest to all manner of developers.
== WildFly 8 ==
WildFly 8 is the next version of the application server previously known as JBoss Application Server. With WildFly 8, it's possible to run your Java EE 7 applications with unparalleled speed.
WildFly 8 boasts a optimized boot process that starts services concurrently to eliminate unnecessary waits and taps into the power of multi-core processors. At the same time, WildFly takes an aggressive approach to memory management and keeps its memory footprint exceptionally small compared to other JVMs.
== Ruby on Rails 4.0 ==
This update supports Ruby on Rails developers by providing system-packaged Ruby on Rails of the latest version. Apart from that, Rails 4.0 also brings improved functionality, speed, security, and better modularization.
*** Maturity and Advanced Features ***
Sometimes it's not the big, new features that make a user's experience better; it's the little enhancements or long-awaited tricky features that really help make a new release the bee's knees.
== NetworkManager Improvements ==
NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that will be welcome additions for power users and system administrators.
Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and de-activate network connections via the nmcli command line tool, which will make life much easier for non-desktop uses of Fedora.
NetworkManager is also getting support for bonding interfaces and bridging interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise setups and are necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios.
== No Default Sendmail, Syslog ==
In the interests of paring down services that are generally not used on desktop systems, Fedora 20 removes and replaces some services that many users find unnecessary from the Live Desktop DVD. They will remain available as installable packages for users who might need them.
The systemd journal now takes the place as the default logging solution for minimal and other selected installation methods, such as the Live Desktop DVD, having been tested and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog.
Also, Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as most Fedora installs have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
*** Even More Changes ***
Fedora prides itself on bringing cutting-edge technologies to users of open source software around the world, and this release continues that tradition. No matter what you do, Fedora 20 has the tools you need to help you get things done.
A complete list with details of each new change is available here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/ChangeSet
*** Documentation ***
Read the full release notes for Fedora 20, guides for several languages, and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Fedora 20 common bugs are documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs
This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in Fedora 20; please be sure to read it before installing!
*** Contributing ***
We hope that you're excited to have Fedora 20 in your hands and are looking forward to using it and exploring its new features and many improvements over Fedora 19. But that's not all! Fedora never stands still, we're always working towards a new and better release and sharing our work with the world. Want to be part of the fun? It's easy to get involved!
There are many ways to contribute to Fedora, even if it's just bug reporting. You can also help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
Cheers,
-robyn
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10 years, 4 months
Warnings?
by Richard Vickery
Hi Gang:
For the last few upgrades / updates, I've been getting warnings such as are
at the bottom of the output; what do they mean? Should I ignore them?
setting up repos...
adobe-linux-x86_64
| 951 B 00:00:00
default-installrepo/metalink
| 22 kB 00:00:00
default-installrepo
| 3.7 kB 00:00:00
default-installrepo/group_gz
| 200 kB 00:00:00
default-installrepo/primary_db
| 2.7 MB 00:00:06
google-chrome
| 951 B 00:00:00
google-talkplugin
| 951 B 00:00:00
updates/20/x86_64/metalink
| 19 kB 00:00:00
getting boot images...
.treeinfo
| 1.1 kB 00:00:00
vmlinuz-fedup
| 4.9 MB 00:00:08
initramfs-fedup.img
| 29 MB 00:00:53
setting up update...
default-installrepo/group
| 864 kB 00:00:01
fedora/20/x86_64/group
| 1.6 MB 00:00:03
updates/20/x86_64/group
| 1.6 MB 00:00:02
repodata (google-talkplugin) 100%
[==================================================================================================================]Warning:
group core does not exist.
Warning: group gnome-desktop does not exist.
Warning: group multimedia does not exist.
Warning: group firefox does not exist.
Warning: group guest-desktop-agents does not exist.
Warning: group base-x does not exist.
Warning: group anaconda-tools does not exist.
Warning: group fonts does not exist.
Warning: group hardware-support does not exist.
Warning: group dial-up does not exist.
Warning: group printing does not exist.
Warning: group libreoffice does not exist.
Warning: group input-methods does not exist.
Warning: group standard does not exist.
10 years, 4 months