Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Fedora 15 - Limited RAM Access
I have an issue with Fedora 15's available memory. The laptop it is installed on has 4GB of SDRAM, but Fedora only sees 2GB.
[njozwiak@calvin xpmc6720]$ free -m
total used ...
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X problems on Fedora 15
I just upgraded from F13 to F15 using the Installation DVD and it looked all went fine. When I first booted into F15, gdm was having troubles starting up. I tried removing Xorg and reinstalled and ...
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Printing to a SAMBA-share HP: Multiple copies appear
I have a Windows machine (W7.Ultimate) with a shared HP LaserJet CP1215. I have set this up via SAMBA as a shared printer on my laptop, running Fedora Core 15, using Foomatic/foo2hp.
My problem ...
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minimal install, still want gnome!
I'm at the stage of the install of Fedora 15 where I choose what software to install. I want less so I'm going for "minimal" and "Customize now".
What do I need to tick to get the machine to boot ...
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Problems with vuze plugins
I needed a torrent client that supports feeds and mailing me when stuff is finished. Vuze supports feeds and a plugin was supposed to do the trick about mailing me.
But I have encountered great ...
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How do I run uTorrent?
I just downloaded the uTorrent archive from their website and unpacked it. Inside were:
docs
utserver
webui.zip
utserver is an executable, so I'm guessing that's what I'm supposed to run, but when ...
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How can I install MS Windows fonts on Fedora 15?
I've just installed Fedora 15 and here is some troubles with fonts. How can I install MS fonts?
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Multiple SSH chaining (tsocks, socksify, proxycommand, etc. )
http://i.stack.imgur.com/YTOvt.png
Goal: you need to reach "Server B" from the Client "directly" with SSH, SCP.
"Server B" is next to "Server A". E.g.: they're on the same subnet, but only "Server ...
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How to partition my hard-drive to be used for dual OS?
I'm using HP G42 laptop with 320GB hard-drive and 4 GB memory. I'm pretty sure that, it can be used for dual OS(Windows 7 & fedora) Currently, I'm using only Windows 7, but, I need to install ...
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Update yum offline
I've been looking around for a way to update an offline fedora box but haven't found anything. I only have a Windows computer connected to the Internet. I noticed that my yum config is pointed to ...
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How to add packages onto a Fedora live USB
I want to create Fedora 14 live CD with additional packages I want. How to do it?
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Fedora: Adding extra fonts in a safe manner
I installed few free fonts from smashingmagazine.com on my Fedora 14 laptop. I didn't like them much so I removed them from /usr/share/fonts using rm -f. The consequence was that my Google Chrome ...
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Fedora 15 won't remember wireless password
I just installed Fedora 15 beta with Gnome 3. I've done all the updates.
The networking applet asks for the wireless password every time it connects. I found this bug, which says that the issue is ...
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OpenGL in Fedora as a VMWare guest under Windows 7
I installed Fedora 14 (64-bit) on a Windows 7 64 bits system, as a guest in VMWare. I can't use OpenGL support, Compiz and other openGL programs do not work. I searched on Google; I found solutions if ...
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Wubi For Fedora?
Ubuntu has the ability to install within Windows via Wubi. Is the same thing possible with Fedora?
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Fedora 14 touchpad issue
I have an HP 3031-et series laptop. My hardware is:
Intel i5 460M 3 GB DDR3 RAM
Graphic Cards: ATI READON 5650 HD and Intel HD Graphic
I installed Fedora 14 on my hardware, and after installation ...
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Fedora 14 graphics issue
I have an HP 3031-et series laptop. My hardware is:
Intel i5 460M 3 GB DDR3 RAM
Graphic Cards: ATI Radeon 5650 HD and Intel HD Graphics
I installed Fedora 14 on my hardware, and after installation ...
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Is there any chance to run ClearCase Remote client under Fedora 14?
I'm using Fedora 14 as main dev-env PC and spent time of trying to setup CCRC 7.1 to my desktop. The problem is - while installation when I presses install button - nothing happens. No error message ...
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BIND Server problem in Fedora
I am install the Bind Server in Fedora Linux.I configured the named.conf file.However,
When I run "service named start" command,I am receive the following error.
starting named: /usr/sbin/named: ...
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Which Repository do I add to install Gnome 3 on Fedora 14
I can't seem to find this anywhere.
Also is there a list of repositories for third party software apart from livna? and is there a better package manager like Ubuntu's for Linux?
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Does ie4linux work under Fedora?
I'm trying to install ie4linux, following this tutorial
root
yum install wine cabextract
normal user
wget -q http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar xfz ...
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Gnome 3 Software Center
Just installed Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. Is there like a software center like in Ubuntu?
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MP3+FLAC tag editor for Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which mp3 tagging tool for Linux?
Are there any good batch tag editors for Ubuntu/Fedora? Which one is the best?
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Why is procmail not being run?
I'm running Fedora 13 Linux, and sending mail to myself using mutt, and I can't seem to get procmail to run. Below is what my .procmailrc, ~/Procmail/rc.testing, and .forward files all look like. As ...
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Man pages for standard C and C++ libraries on Fedora 14
How do I install them? At present, man fopen gives me No manual entry for fopen. I have the compilers installed and have verified that things do build without problems.
Update: This is what I got ...
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VMware Tools on Fedora
Where is the best place to find resources on how to install VMware Tools on a Fedora guest? I had some trouble with Fedora 14 in the past and now I'm trying Fedora 15.
The host is Windows VMware ...
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Problem installing JDT in Eclipse on linux
I installed Eclipse on Fedora Core 14 using yum install eclipse-platform. I ran eclipse and tried to install the java development tools, but then this error came up:
Cannot complete the install ...
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I can't figure out how to install Firestarter Fedora
I am feeling stupid. I have been searching for 3 hours with no success.
I installed Fedora 14 and tried to do yum install firestarter but the package was not found.
I also tried from a GUI and found ...
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Fedora 12 No wireless networks detected
I have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1510 and loaded Fedora 12 along with Windows. I cannot detect any wireless networks through my network applet on the tool bar.
$:lscpi
12:00.0 Network controller: ...
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Several versions of JAVA on one PC
I want to use jre-1_5_0_21 on my Fedora 14 box. Here's whats installed on my PC:
$ update-alternatives --config java
There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.
Selection Command
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Where is the dhclient.conf under Fedora 14?
I wanted to put this in the dhclient.conf file:
supersede domain-name "foo.org foo2.org";
but there is no dhclient.conf file...where is it? (Fedora14/GNOME)
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Move to trash confirm box
I am using Fedora 14 (Laughlin) with GNOME 2.32.0. I have gconf-editor installed. In gconf-editor apps->nautilus->preference confirm_trash is enabled i.e., checked, also in nautilus file browser, home ...
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No pppoe-server in Fedora 14?
$ yum list | grep -i ppp
ppp.i686 2.4.5-12.fc14 @updates
rp-pppoe.i686 3.10-6.fc12 @fedora/$releasever
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How to turn off GNOME hint bubbles?
How can I disable the bubbles that pop up after ~1 sec? I don't want hint bubbles! :)
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Openshot-1.3.0 not working on Fedora 14
I am trying to install openshot 1.3 from yesterday. After doing everything I could do and searching the whole web. I am finally asking this. I downloaded the source and installed it from there and ...
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VirtualBox bug[?] when Chainloading Grub2
Regarding this: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
So booted into Ubuntu..and I run this script:
#!/bin/bash
# show the bootlist of grub when booting pc
sed ...
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How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
I installed Fedora 14 first, then Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so I used encrypted VolumeGroups. At the end of the Ubuntu install it said it cannot install GRUB, so I had ...
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How to whitelist a url/site in privoxy?
I'm using Fedora 14 with privoxy-3.0.16-3.fc14.i686! These sites are blocked by Privoxy:
http://somewhere.com/user/11111/track?page=1
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How to change dm_crypt aes/256 LVM password after install?
I installed Fedora 14 & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my PC. I used dm_crypt/LVM with aes256 in both installs (2 VolumeGroups, each encrypted, so there is 2 separated & encrypted linux distro on this ...
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How to build a cross-distro binary RPM package?
I'm trying to build a cross-distro binary RPM package that works under Fedora and openSUSE. I'm using a Require: tag to set the dependencies package names. The problem is that the package names are ...
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Backup installed RPM
Last night I did rm -Rf /tmp as root. I wasn't drunk. But I definitely feel I was dumb to do so. Now X doesn't work. I read few days back that after doing rm, one can't recover the lost data. I ...
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Logitech MX-510: Some extra buttons not usable
I have a Logitech MX-510, that I've been using for about six years.
The Mouse has several extra buttons, that I'd like to use in Gnome, but I have problems with the button codes, that the mouse ...
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APTonCD equivalent for Fedora
Is there an equivalent of APTonCD for Fedora? I tried googling and found YUMonCD but wanted to know if there exists some package in the repos.
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Can you tell a window to spawn behind others?
I have a script that recompiles and relaunches a software project I am building in linux. However, I don't usually want to see my program's window immediately after it has launched, as I want to keep ...
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Qemu & AIX 6.1 - what am i missing?
I have a Fedora 14 i386 / T7100 C2D HP notebook. I need to run e.g.: AIX 6.1 on it for testing purposes.
I installed a VirtualBox on this Fedora machine. I installed a guest os in the VirtualBox. ...
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What is a Transaction Check Error ? (yum update)
I tried today to replace packages from atomiccorp's repositories with newer packages from the epel/remi repositories and received Transaction Check Errors.
I cannot proceed with my update.
Install ...
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How can I remove Orphan Packages in Fedora?
I just switched from Ubuntu to Fedora14. In Ubuntu we had the apt-get autoremove thing to remove orphan/unused packages. What is the counterpart in Fedora?
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How to upgrade Fedora Core 3?
I want to upgrade from fedora core 3 to latest release without using a cd. I have internet connection.
Is it possible to use yum to upgrade the OS entirely to the latest version? At present there ...
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How can I clear the list of recently accessed documents in Fedora?
When I click on the Clear recent documents item in the GNOME menu, it clears the list of recently used documents (as expected). How can I replicate this functionality from the command line?
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cshrc execute bashrc within itself?
My school has our Linux accounts using csh/tcsh by default. I, however, have a lot setup on my home bashrc and I'd like to use that at school. BUT there's also some important stuff that happens in our ...
