Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Spotlight/Search on Fedora
I apologize for the MacOSX reference, but is there an equivalent of Spotlight-Search in Fedora, specifically FC14 x86_64 ?
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Are the boost headers separately packaged under Fedora?
The boost C++ library consists of several components. Some components do include shared libraries, other don't.
Under a Fedora 14 system I've looked a bit around with yum search boost and rpm -qR and ...
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How to install Fedora from an ISO on a USB?
I have a Fedora 14 x86_64 iso image and I want to install it using a USB stick. How do I get this stick to boot up, and use the image to start the installation? I'm running Debian.
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Auto-mounting to a directory other than /media in Fedora 13
I am using Fedora 13. I need to be able to configure how media are mounted automatically. For an example, I want to change the parent of all mounted media to be a directory other than /media. All the ...
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Understanding Gnome various Icons
The question is about customizing the way icon appears at
desktop shell
notification area
file associations
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Mathematica 9
Comment=Technical ...
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How to manage fedora services and daemons using the GUI?
I am using Fedora 17, I need a GUI program to start/stop and enable/disable services and daemons.
I have installed "system-config-services" but it did not have enable/disable feature(run it with ...
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How to build a custom kernel on Fedora?
I want to test an (upstream) custom kernel on Fedora.
The plan so far is:
use a recent fedora config as starting point, e.g. /boot/config-3.6.6-1.fc17.x86_64
lookup build dependencies
lookup right ...
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Unable to login in fedora 16
I am new in Linux environment. I install the fedora 16 but I skipped to create at least one user account during installation. Now I am unable to log in to the Fedora graphical environment. How can I ...
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How to adjust brightness in Fedora 17 on Sony Vaio
I have a Sony E Series laptop with Fedora 17 and Windows 8 in dual boot.
The brightness adjusts just fine on my Windows8 but not in Fedora. If I change it with the brightness slider in the power ...
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Why isn't my application receiving broadcast packets?
I have written a Qt application that listens for UDP broadcast packets on the network interface p2p1. I have installed the application in Fedora 17 i386 in a VirtualBox VM. For some reason, the ...
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How can I configure Fedora to support scrolling with my ThinkPad TrackPoint?
On Ubuntu (and Windows), I'm able to scroll by using the trackpoint and the middle button.
How can I configure Fedora 16 to allow me to scroll with that? In Ubuntu, it just worked out of the box - I ...
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Fedora 16 Yakuake keybinding failure ( retracts but will not dropdown )
On fedora 16 I've installed yakuake, and when I hit F12 ( default keybind ) the terminal retracts, but on hitting F12 again it won't deploy down. Does anyone have a thought as to why F12 isn't being ...
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Setting nice and ionice for rsync via xinetd
I am attempting to set nice and ionice for rsync via xinetd. I am running Fedora 16. The reason I would like to use these values is to reduce the rsync process to an idle state so other processes run ...
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Xrandr not saving setting
Hello xrandr at install doesnt detect my tv to be 1920x1080@60hz, so I have to add the setting manually and when I do that with xrandr it works this is the commands I used
xrandr --addmode HDMI-0 ...
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Toggle going to sleep when laptop lid closes?
I'm running Fedora 15 Gnome on a laptop. I can't seem to find an option to toggle if the laptop goes to sleep when the lid closes. There are certain times where I want to put the laptop away or close ...
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EXT4-fs (sdc): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
In short, this is where I found the best answers to my problem with my disks: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
During Fedora 15 installation, I added all my 3 drives to be mounted on ...
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Fedora repository release cycle?
I have recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora but can't seem to understand how the repository release cycle is.
In ubuntu it seemed very OS centered where a new version of a package/program was ...
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Read/Write to a Serial Port Without Root?
I'm writing an application to read/write to/from a serial port in Fedora14, and it works great when I run it as root. But when I run it as a normal user I'm unable to obtain the privileges required 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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Wubi For Fedora?
Ubuntu has the ability to install within Windows via Wubi. Is the same thing possible with Fedora?
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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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How come I don't have package updates in Fedora?
I last updated my Fedora 14 install weeks ago, so I expected a slew of new packages waiting for me, but after I run yum update, I instead get:
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Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for ...
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How to generate grub.conf from scratch in Fedora 14?
It seems that I hit following bug in Fedora 14 - I deselected installing grub into the MBR while using the graphical installer, because I want to use an existing grub instance.
Now, I want to look up ...
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Linux distro installation on 64 bit processor
I am trying to install Ubuntu/Fedora 64 bit versions on my machine and they shout back saying my CPU does not support x86_64 bit architecture and forces me to use i686 versions.
I am currently ...
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KDE; each monitor another desktop
Is it possible to configure for example 4 desktops and switch them separately for each monitor?
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Change file type association in Fedora/KDE
Can anybody explain how to change file extension associations with applications to open them with in Fedora/KDE ? E.g. my PDFs open with Okular and I would like to change the default to Adobe.
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How to change Grub 2 default permanently?
Fedora now uses Grub 2. Whenever it does a kernel upgrade, it loses my default boot option (Windows). How can I fix this?
I resent Grub 2 over this, because the old Grub respected my choices.
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Where can I look for backup script?
I want find out where the backup script of a Fedora 8 server is. I haven't found it so far ( my Linux knowledge is very spare). I looked with crontab -l and I only can find a tempdelete.pl. Than I ...
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Only one CPU core is active on Fedora 16
I've upgraded from F15 to F16 and noticed that I have a problems with hardware detection. Upon loading I can see message like
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CPU#1 not responding
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on the screen. It disappears and I can ...
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Running a pbk file in Linux
To connect to my university's network, they provided me with a .pbk file.
The file is made for windows of course and I have no idea how to use it in Fedora
(I'm using Fedora 15)
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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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How can I configure SELinux when the semanage command isn't found?
I'm having a very hard time configuring SELinux to allow Sending mail.
Looking into selinux documentation I've found I can manage ports via the semanage command, but the command can't be found.
Is ...
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unable to mount smb share in fedora 14 through nautilus connect to server
I'm unable to mount smb share on my university network. Trying through the nautilus connect to server dialog just brings the password dialog up repeatedly. I'm able to mount the share using mount.cifs ...
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Activating WiFi in Fedora
I am using a Fedora 13 OS and i see that in the network connections the WiFi thing has been disabled. Generally when there is a WiFi connection around it would show in the Wireless networks option, ...
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SELinux interfering with host/guest file sharing using KVM
I'm running Fedora 17 with KVM and the virtual machine runs okay. I tried to follow this to get access to a file on the host system but SELinux prevents the VM from accessing any files other than ...
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Fedora 17, WebGL, intel integrated graphics
I have troubles with getting started WebGL in Google chrome. This is the info about my GPU from about:gpu:
GPU0 VENDOR = 0x8086 [Intel Corporation],
DEVICE= 0x0116 [2nd Generation Core Processor ...
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Sudo yum permission denied Fedora 17
On Fedora 13, in /etc/sudoers I used to have a line:
Cmnd_Alias SOFTWARE=/usr/bin/yum
and then for a user that would have the privilege of installing his/her own RPM packages, an entry like:
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Fedora installer doesn't see my Windows 7 partitions
I tried to install Fedora 17 on the same disk I have Windows 7. First I got the message, that there are no free space to create partition, even in Windows part of disk was marked as unallocated.
I ...
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X Windows Terminates when I type {+<ENTER>
In particular when I type the following keyboard combo:
<hold shift> [ <release shift> <enter>
I get dumped out of KDE and see a flash of some console output but I can't find it in ...
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Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard and want to use it with Fedora 15.
I turn on the bluetooth on the both devices. Click 'Setup new device' via Gnome3's GUI. The computer detects the keyboard but it ...
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How can I disable the user list login screen in Gnome 3 on Fedora 16 or 17?
Our login screen requirements include a warning / disclaimer and a basic login, showing just a username and password field. Sadly, Gnome 3 seems to be ignoring the ...
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Can't control brightness on HP Pav dv6t running Fedora 16
I installed FC 16 on my HP Pavilion dv6 with a 9-cell battery. I get approximately 7-8 hours on Windows 7, but at best 3 hours on Fedora. I cannot adjust the screen brightness using the fn keys, nor ...
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Why am I getting a Non-existent class error in PHP on Fedora?
I've set up an Nginx/PHP (both installed from Yum) environment on my Fedora 15 install, but I've run into a strange issue.
I have some projects that use Codeigniter (1.6), but they keep getting the ...
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Screen content showing for a few seconds before screensaver starts (Fedora 14)
This happens every now and then, I have not pinned down the cause but let me describe the symptoms.
On occasion when I come back to the computer after a few hours the screen is in energy saving mode, ...
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GRUB error Fedora 15 when Dual Booting on MacBook Pro
I am having trouble getting Fedora 15 running on my MacBook Pro. I had Fedora 15 installed before on this MBP before, so I know it works. I basically followed the good old instructions of
Create a ...
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Why is plymouth-log-viewer starting up?
I've been using Fedora 14 for about a month on my primary system (converted from Win2K). My secondary system was converted to Fedora 12 from Win2K, and was updated sequentially to Fedora 14 (using ...
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ssh localhost without password doesn't work on Fedora 14
I performed:
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
then in /etc/ssh/sshd_config changed StrictModes to no and restarted sshd.
And I ...
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Root password not working to log in to Gnome with gdm
I have a weird issue going on. I have a user account and I can login to Gnome normally. From a terminal there I can use su root and switch to root with my root password. However, when I try to login ...
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Fedora won't boot after installing Nvidia drivers
I followed this tutorial about Nvidia drivers installation and I accidentally forget to do 5th point (disabling nouveau drivers), so now I can't boot my system. I know I am idiot but is there anything ...
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Fedora 14 install Fedora 19 software?
I am using Fedora 14 right now and find some software in the fc14 repository is a little old.
I need some software in my machine to be updated, say, to the Fedora 19 version.
Without upgrading the ...
