How to install the Cinnamon desktop environment on Fedora 19? On Fedora 19: # yum groupinstall ‘Cinnamon Desktop’ to install the packages needed for the Cinnamon desktop environment. Then, in the login screen, select ‘Cinnamon’ in the “Session” menu and you will start the Cinnamon desktop environment.
With Gnome 3, I try to start a vncserver with $ vncserver -geometry 1024×768 to start a vnc server with geometry 1024×768, which works well with Gnome 2 before. This also works for twm. However, after I connect to the vnc server, the resolution is not 1024×768. I change the geometry to other resolution and…
How to install JRE for Chrome on Linux x86-64? Use JRE from Oracle on Fedora Linux x86-64 as the example: Download jre from http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp?locale=en#lin . Select Linux x64. Install it by # yum install jre-7u40-linux-x64.rpm (the downloaded rpm). Make a softlink of the plugin:$ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins/; ln -s /usr/java/jre1.7.0_40/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ./ Restart Chrome and browse chrome://plugins/…
Installing Fedora 19, Error “you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device” . It seems appear from Fedora 15: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=271743 This can be solved by adding noefi nogpt to the kernel parameters when booting the Linux for installation in grub as follows. Note: the “_” between nogpt and root is the cursor, not the…
How to use HP Printer connected with USB on Fedora Linux 19. Install these packages and it may ask you to download and install other plugins. Without these packages, my printer does work. # yum install hplip hplip-gui hpijs May also need to run: # hp-plugin to install plugins for the HP printer. This plays…
How to install the latest WordPress on a newly installed Fedora 19? Thanks! First, install the LAMP (you already have ‘L’) stack: # yum install httpd php php-mysql mysql-server php-gd and start these services: # systemctl start mysqld.service httpd.service Then, install WordPress on the LAMP stack following the tutorials on the Web. Two good ones…
I find that gnuplot and ps2epsi do not work on Fedora 19. The same packages/scripts work for me on old installations on Fedora 17. I find this line is printed out multiple times: Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf”, line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. I even tried an older version of gnuplot (4.2 patchlevel 6)….
This tutorial introduces how to install Scala 2.9.2 on 64-bit Fedora Linux 17. There are some changes needed to make scala work on Fedora Linux 17. Please check it out in the answer. Install Java Scala depends on Java, so please install Java first. In this tutorial, we installed JDK to: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/lib/. Install Scala from…
This tutorial introduces how to exclude certain repositories in yum. Excluding certain repositories is needed usually. One example may be when you have several repositories that have the same package and you only want the one from a certain repository. For my situation, I choose to exclude the google-chrome and other repositories from Google when…
How to install Scala from the official Scala distribution? This is needed on a Linux release with older version of Scala in the repository, e.g. Fedora 12. Use the install-scala.sh script: # wget https://raw2.github.com/zma/usefulscripts/master/script/install-scala.sh # sh ./install-scala.sh VER where VER is the scala version that you want to install. First step, install and configure the…
I know the routing tables on Linux is in memory after being set. However, where are the routing table entries stored on disk? I mean where are the routing table is persistently stored so that the routing table can be reloaded like the iptables (under /etc/sysconfig/iptables on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Linuxes). If the system uses the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network…
Grub2: How to boot Fedora to an old kernel? The old kernel is a submenu under “Advanced options for Fedora”. It is not shown if I follow the instruction that # grep menuentry /boot/grub2/grub.cfg | cut -d “‘” -f2. The old kernel in grub2 is in a submenu entry in a menu. The key is…
What is the length of int in OCaml? It is said that int in OCaml is 31. But I get this: # (1 lsl 33);; – : int = 8589934592 8589934592 is larger than 2^31. On my laptop (64-bit Fedora Linux), the int in OCaml is 63 bits. The code (count1s counts the number of…
I come across some closed source software that only provides .deb packages. Fedora manages packages with rpm/yum. How to install the .deb packages on Fedora? Alien is a tool to convert .deb package to .rpm package: http://joeyh.name/code/alien/ In latest Fedora, the tool alien is in Fedora’s repository. You can use dnf to install the package….
iPhone has the touch screen. Is is possible to turn my iPhone to a wireless mouse on Linux? Use the WiFi Mouse app/server: http://wifimouse.necta.us/ First, install the WiFi Mouse app on you iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id591076411?mt=8 Second, install the WiFi Mouse server downloaded from http://wifimouse.necta.us/ If you are using Fedora Linux, you need to convert the .deb…
Chrome reads the proxy settings from Gnome correctly. However, when I run Chrome under KDE, the proxy integration is broken: In the settings of Chrome, clicking the “Change proxy settings” opens the KDE proxy setting dialog correctly (the command kcmshell4 proxy actually is executed). However, after the proxy settings are made, Chrome does not read…
I have a Fedora Linux server with Gnome 3. I want to lock / unlock the remote Gnome desktop remotely. How to activate or deactivate it remotely through SSH? Use gnome-screensaver-command. It is not specific to Gnome 3. Turn the screensaver on (blank the screen): $ gnome-screensaver-command -a If the screensaver is active then deactivate…
On Linux (Fedora 17 x86-64), Chrome keeps reporting “Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date.” every time I browse a page that contains Flash. How to fix this? I did this and it turned to be working for me: Disable the libpepflashplayer in Chrome by run chrome://plugins/ in the URL bar….
How to install php on Apache on Fedora? The basic support (basic PHP support, no caching, etc.) should be enough. First, install Apache2 (httpd): # yum install httpd Then, enable php support: # yum install php Remember to restart httpd after you install php: # service httpd restart
I got a message: Package subcaption Error: `caption’ package not loaded I guess that I should install the cpaton package. How to install the caption latex package on Fedora? Fedora 19 is already shipped with the latex Tex Live 2013. You can directly install it by yum. # yum install texlive-caption For older Fedora releases,…