Fedora Core Solutions

Shifted to WordPress!!

2006-03-08T04:03:00.000-08:00

Owing to really cool features provided by WordPress (www.wordpress.com), I have shifted to it.

http://unpredictablerulz.wordpress.com

PS: All posts of this blog (except this one) have been ported there, so there is no need to keep checking this one.

Have a break, have RSI-Break

2006-03-04T09:00:00.000-08:00

www.kde-apps.org is a great site, has tonnes of great new small big applications for the KDE user. I was browsing through it, and found so many new and great applications.

Some of them were Hydrogen (some kind of audio mixing tool for guitarists), a couple of tools like FruityLoops, a lot of tweaks and shortcut apps for doing varied jobs, like KCleanup to remove unwanted files, etc etc.

Another one was RSIBreak. Its a tool that helps people like me. Generally working continuously on the computer can cause so many problems. It keeps running in the background and after a scheduled amount of time, it asks the user to take a break. There are two types of breaks, a short break (for me its after every 10 mins, for 20 seconds) and a long break (for 3 mins after every hour). It looks for keyboard and mouse activity when its break time, and resets to 20 seconds or 3 mins if it detects activity. IF the user keeps working, after 3 activity detection events, it locks the system and freezes. The user has the option of 'skipping' the break or 'logging off', but I think most users will then at least stand up, and stretch instead of taking off the break signal. Really cool thing for those who stress a lot. RSI means Repetetive Strain Injury, and this app is to prevent that.

I also came to know that my KOffice contains a nice component called Kivio. Its the same thing as MS Visio. I just opened it and was amazed to find the same interface and functionality. Really cool app and a good answer to people who keep telling me to make them count a replacement of Visio in Linux. Cheers!

KDE and Cricket scorecard...

2006-02-16T02:05:00.000-08:00

I was just seeing the scorecard in the India-Pakistan match. I wondered whether I could help out my browser from those refreshes. I wasn't seeing each and every line of the commentry, so why not have something better, like a desktop scorecard, but a little less annoying.

I wrote a script that will SPECIFICALLY give me a live scorecard of TODAY's CRICKET MATCH. It can be modified to work more generically. Here is a sample output.

Just download it and run. It will work if you have KDE.


#!/bin/sh

while [ 1 ]
do
        rm -f IND_PAK_ODI4_16FEB2006.main.html
        wget http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/IND_IN_PAK/SCORECARDS/frames/IND_PAK_ODI4_16FEB2006.main.html
        info1=`cat IND_PAK_ODI4_16FEB2006.main.html | grep overs| grep Cricinfo| cut -f 2 -d \'`
        info2=`cat IND_PAK_ODI4_16FEB2006.main.html | grep overs| grep Current|cut -f 2- -d :|cut -f 1 -d \<`
        info2="Current Partnership: $info2"
        info3=`cat IND_PAK_ODI4_16FEB2006.main.html | grep overs| grep Last|cut -f 2- -d :|cut -f 1 -d \<`
        info3="Last batsman: $info3"
        info="$info1 --- $info2 ---  $info3"
        kdialog --passivepopup "$info" 30 &
done

Eat cricket, sleep cricket, use only K D E!!

Some KDE 3.5.1 Screenshots..

2006-02-11T00:47:00.000-08:00

More awaited as and when I use it.

KDE 3.5.1 on FC4 : Job accomplished!!

2006-02-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

* Download all rpms using the script.
* rpm -e kdeartwork-icons
* mv kdeaccessibility-kttsd-gstreamer-3.4.3-1.0.fc4.kde.i386.rpm ..

Dependencies and download links
===============================
libsamplerate.so.0
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/libsamplerate-0.1.2-3.fc4.i386.rpm

libstdc++.so.6
ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libstdc++-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libjasper-1.701.so.1
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/jasper-1.701.0-9.fc4.i386.rpm

liblcms.so.1
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/lcms-1.15-1.fc4.i386.rpm

libsndfile.so.1
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/libsndfile-1.0.11-3.fc4.i386.rpm

libIlmImf.so.2
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/OpenEXR-1.2.2-5.fc4.i386.rpm

libslp.so.1
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/openslp-1.2.1-4.fc4.i386.rpm

libgnokii.so.2
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/gnokii-0.6.10-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm

libgpgme.so.11
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/gpgme-1.0.3-2.fc4.i386.rpm

fortune-mod
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/fortune-mod-1.99.1-4.fc4.i386.rpm

kdelibs-apidocs
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.1-2.1.i386.rpm

mathml-fonts
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/mathml-fonts-1.0-19.fc4.noarch.rpm

libAiksaurus-1.2.so.0
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/aiksaurus-1.2.1-7.i386.rpm

libqscintilla.so.6
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/qscintilla-1.6-3.fc4.i386.rpm

librecode.so.0
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/recode-3.6-19.fc4.i386.rpm

gnupg2
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/gnupg2-1.9.20-1.fc4.i386.rpm

libpth.so.20
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/pth-2.0.4-3.i386.rpm

libtunepimp.so.3
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/libtunepimp-0.4.0-4.fc4.i386.rpm

libvisual.so.0
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/libvisual-0.2.0-6.fc4.i386.rpm

libksba.so.8
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/libksba-0.9.13-2.fc4.i386.rpm

pinentry
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/pinentry-0.7.1-4.i386.rpm

libstdc++-devel
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libstdc++-devel-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

gcc-c++
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/gcc-c++-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

gcc
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/gcc-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

cpp
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/cpp-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libgcc
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libgcc-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

gcc-java
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/gcc-java-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

gcc-gfortran
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/gcc-gfortran-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

gcc-gnat
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/gcc-gnat-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

gcc-objc
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/gcc-objc-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

apr-devel
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/apr-devel-0.9.6-3.5.i386.rpm

apr
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/apr-0.9.6-3.5.i386.rpm

libmudflap-devel
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libmudflap-devel-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libmudflap
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libmudflap-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libgfortran
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libgfortran-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libgnat
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libgnat-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libgcj
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libgcj-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libgcj-devel
ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libgcj-devel-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libobjc
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libobjc-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libgcj-src
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libgcj-src-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm

libtool -- multilib2
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libtool-1.5.16.multilib2-3.i386.rpm

Install attempt 1
=================

[root@unpredictable rpms]# rpm -hUv *.rpm /home/anurag/current/kde-3.5.1/rpms/*
warning: gnokii-0.6.10-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
warning: /home/anurag/current/kde-3.5.1/rpms/activeheart-1.2.1-0.0.fc4.kde.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ff6382fa
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package openobex-1.0.1-3 (which is newer than openobex-1.0.1-0.1.fc4.kde) is already installed
package kdemultimedia-3.4.2-0.fc4.1mp3 (which is newer than kdemultimedia-3.5.1-1.1.fc4.kde) is already installed
package kdemultimedia-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1mp3 (which is newer than kdemultimedia-devel-3.5.1-1.1.fc4.kde) is already installed
package openobex-devel-1.0.1-3 (which is newer than openobex-devel-1.0.1-0.1.fc4.kde) is already installed
file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/chm.desktop from install of kdelibs-3.5.1-1.5.fc4.kde conflicts with file from package kdevelop-3.2.0-2
file /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.0.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs of libmeanwhile0-0.4.2-0.2.fc4.kde and meanwhile-0.3-0.1.fc4.kde
file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/meanwhile.pc conflicts between attempted installs of meanwhile-devel-0.3-0.1.fc4.kde and libmeanwhile0-devel-0.4.2-0.2.fc4.kde

Repair
======
rpm --force -Uvh kdemultimedia-3.4.2-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm
mv openobex* ..

Install attempt 2
=================
[root@unpredictable rpms]# rpm -hUv *.rpm /root/rpms/*.rpm
warning: activeheart-1.2.1-0.0.fc4.kde.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ff6382fa
warning: /root/rpms/gnokii-0.6.10-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/chm.desktop from install of kdelibs-3.5.1-1.5.fc4.kde conflicts with file from package kdevelop-3.2.0-2
file /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.0.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs of libmeanwhile0-0.4.2-0.2.fc4.kde and meanwhile-0.3-0.1.fc4.kde
file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/meanwhile.pc conflicts between attempted installs of meanwhile-devel-0.3-0.1.fc4.kde and libmeanwhile0-devel-0.4.2-0.2.fc4.kde

Repair
======
rpm -e kdevelop
mv meanwhile-* ..

Install attempt 3
=================
Works!

KDE 3.5.1 looks nice. Has some interesting features. First one I noticed was the really awesome "Network link status applet", just like the one in XP. Am still playing with it. KMplayer looks good too. Hopefully all will be okay. Cheers!!

KDE 3.5.1 on Fedora Core 4

2006-02-09T23:12:00.000-08:00

Well, the newly released KDE 3.5.1 seems to be nice, with some good "Cosmetic repairs" plus added functionalities like the much required "plug in a CD and play" functionality inherently present in XP. To upgrade the existing version, it requires a painful download of too many RPMs, manually!

Here is a script to help the cause!

* Just create a new folder, say 'kde-3.5.1' and copy this script, say 'download.sh' into that.
* Create a directory 'kde-3.5.1/rpms'.
* cd kde-3.5.1
* chmod 755 download.sh
* ./download.sh

and you can even run this script 2-3-4-5-6 times at the same time in different shells, so that this script downloads the rpms intelligently, i.e. they cooperatively download all data! then try to install the rpms. if some rpms got corrupt, delete them and run the script to redownload. I am also downloading right now, so lets hope it works!

Given below is the script.

#!/bin/sh

export http_proxy="http://192.168.36.204:8080"
export ftp_proxy="http://192.168.36.204:8080"

# existance of the html page
[ -f index.html ]
if [ $? = "1" ]
then
wget http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.stable/
fi

# list of rpms
[ -f rpms.txt ]
if [ $? = "1" ]
then
cat index.html | tr " " "\n"| grep href|cut -f 2 -d \"|grep m$ > rpms.txt
fi

# mirrors
[ -f mirrors.list ]
if [ $? = "1" ]
then
wget http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/4/i386/mirrors.list
cat mirrors.list | grep "http:"| cut -f 1 -d " " > mirrors.list
fi

# choose and download
for i in `cat rpms.txt`
do
[ -f rpms/${i} ]
if [ $? = "1" ] # the file needs to be downloaded
then
echo "Downloading ... $i"
cd rpms
for k in `cat ../mirrors.list`
do
query="${k}/kde-redhat/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.stable/${i}"
echo $query
wget --tries=2 $query
[ -f $i ]
if [ $? = "0" ]
then
break
fi
done
cd ..
fi
done

Firefox :bypass proxy for 172...* solved!

2005-10-08T00:36:00.000-07:00

In our network, we wish to bypass the proxy server for IP addresses like 172.16.*.* and 172.17.*.*, oops... this doesn't work in Firefox! Anyways, its not a great discovery, but, from somewhere I came to know the notation to be used for FIREFOX!

This is how you write it.

172.16.*.* ... means first two fields are fixed. First 2 .... so do ... 2 x 8 = 16.

write ... 172.16.0.0/16

and if you want 172.*.*.* ... 1 x 8 = 8

write 172.0.0.0/8

Simple! It just works. Cheers.

Media player and Multimedia keys

2005-09-07T09:38:00.000-07:00

Have you seen things just work in Windows with Winamp? Play and Pause, Previous, Next, Stop, etc? I always wished my keyboard is able to do the same in KDE too.

I use AMAROK player, so, I generally want my amarok to play or pause audio. In the control center, there is a section called Regional and accessibility/KHotKeys

Here, we can add events and their actions. By default, there are two groups of events, "examples" and "menu editor entries". First, I created a new group, "Amarok commands". In that group, I added a new action. I named the new action as "amarok play pause". Now, I added a new trigger as "shortcut", and in that, I specified the "play pause multimedia key" (to specify, just press the key, hehe). And specified the action as "command/URL" and in that "amarok -t". Now, after applying, pressing "the play pause multimedia key "plays pauses" amarok.

To find out the command for your media player, generally,
{player name} --help
tells you which commands are for what.

amarok -t // play pause
amarok -s // stop
amarok -r // previous
amarok -f // next

Also, it is important to note that there was a mapping called "XF86AudioPlay" for the keycode of "play pause multimedia key". So, its important to select the correct "keyboard model" from Control Center -> Regional and Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout. For me, the model is "Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro/Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro".

If your layout doesn't have a mapping, then, we can always use "xmodmap" to select an "unused mapping" for the "key". Some of the other unused "mapping codes" are F13 F14 F15 F16, etc. if your F keys are till F12 only.

Have fun!

Making the "Multimedia keys" work

2005-09-07T06:46:00.000-07:00

Normally, we have keyboards which have more than the normal keys. But, the general view is "Linux doesn't support the extra keys". True to some extent, it really doesn't support all keys. But, there are a few keys which are detected by Linux, but it doesn't know how to deal with them. Its something like, Linux detects the "electronic signal" generated by these keys, but it doesn't have a mapping of the "signal" and "its name".

We can specify this mapping and use those extra "signals" as keys. Every key generates a "signal" or a "keycode". The command "xev" tells us the "keycode" of the key pressed.

Just run "xev" on konsole and press 'a', the output is...

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001,
root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 655687, (270,-143), root:(274,365),
state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001,
root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 655780, (270,-143), root:(274,365),
state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"

Here we see that it says, the keycode is '38'. Linux has a mapping of 38 means 'a'. Now, if I press "My Documents" button, this is what I see.

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001,
root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 720180, (221,-246), root:(225,262),
state 0x0, keycode 239 (keysym 0xfed0, First_Virtual_Screen), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

This says that it has a signal of 239, but no "mapping".
We can specify mapping by creating a text file with the format
keycode {keycode} = {mapping}

The mapping is some string which identifies a key. There are some defined "mappings" which we can use. They are in the file, /usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h

The known signals are already mapped to some code in that file. Like 22 is mapped to BackSpace. But, some of them like "XK_Next_Screen" are not mapped. We can use these "free codes" to map the new signals of our extra keys.

Hence, we can find the keycode of our extra key with "xev" and create a file,
~/.Xmodmap

and write something like...
keycode 239 = First_Virtual_Screen
keycode 237 = Next_Virtual_Screen
keycode 236 = Last_Virtual_Screen

Now, if we run "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap, these new mappings get registered till we don't restart X. So, we need to automate the running of this command on startup.

In KDE, open konqueror, GO->Autostart. Create new link to application, and type the execution command as "xmodmap .Xmodmap". Now, it will work even after restarting X.

Also, first select the correct Keyboard Model in Control Centre->Regional and Accesibility->Keyboard Layout. If you do this, some of the extra keys "automatically" start working.

Have fun!

Some great effects in KDE

2005-09-07T03:27:00.000-07:00

Control Center -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Translucency.

This thing is a new feature in KDE which I discovered. It is under "experimentation" and does work a little "buggily". I enabled it. It gets enabled once you enable it and relogin to KDE.

The shadows and translucency are really buggy in resizing, moving and maximizing windows. But, the Effects -- Fade in and Fade out are really nice. Though, that means a little delay in application response, but its really nice. I disabled some advanced effects of the "KDE Theme" I was using, and enabled this effect. Looks great.

You might consider ticking "disable ARGB windows", I don't know what it does though.

Now, when I open a Window, it fades in and fades out, something like given in the "Tour Windows XP" thing, never seen it happen in real working Windows XP though.

Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro

2005-09-01T14:51:00.000-07:00

Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro. This piece of hardware worked flawlessly when I used some kernel 2.6.10 in Fedora Core 2. But, ever since I installed Fedora Core 4, it didn't work.

I explored for the reason, and found this answer,
"The linux kernel has stopped supporting philips webcam driver, as it was not released under GPL"
Just because the driver wasn't open source, it was removed from the kernel, and poor users like me were helpless.

Exploring a little more, I came to know that the driver consisted of two parts, PWC and PWCX. While PWC was open source, PWCX was not. So, there was sourcecode of PWC, which could be compiled and installed to support my hardware.

After some searching, I reached http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/RPMs/. Here, I found some RPMS for the kernel module for PWC driver. As my kernel was not listed, I downloaded pwc-10.0.6a-1.src.rpm.

Now, the task was simple, just compile and install.
rpm -hiv pwc*.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
rpmbuild -bb pwc.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
rpm -hiv kernel-modules-pwc*.rpm

It got installed correctly. Then, I plugged in the CAM, and run xawtv. But, unfortunately, the output was a blank window. I could not understand why it happened.

I tried to investigate the contents of the rpm.
$ rpm2cpio kernel-modules-pwc_2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp-10.0.6a-1_fc4.i386.rpm | cpio -t
./lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp
./lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp/misc
./lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp/misc/pwc.ko
$ cd /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp/
$ find . -name *pwc*
./misc/pwc.ko
./kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc
./kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc/pwc.ko

Then, I realized that the RPM is actually putting the driver in the misc directory of kernel modules, while its using the one in kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc/. I just did,
$ cd /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp/
$ cp misc/pwc.ko kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc/
Overwrite file 'pwc.ko' ? y

And now, it worked!! So anyone of you, with this hardware and a 2.6.x kernel, do what I did and be happy. Cheers.

VMWARE .. the middle path.

2005-08-15T23:48:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, Operating System has become a religion. And people tend to stick to one. Any good feature in the other cannot be used then, or people keep a dual boot. VMWARE is the solution to all problems.

I downloaded VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm from some unknown site. And did...
rpm -hiv VM*.rpm

then, in konsole as root..
vmware-config.pl
installed VMWARE in a suitable partition/(folder in /) and then, run VMWARE.

Here, one thing which is required is, you should enable networking for your guest OSs and also enable NAT support. All this is done in the config thing, and this can be run multiple times, based on any requirement to change anything.

If it tells you that your gcc version is different from what its now, take it VERY seriously. It is strictly required to have the same version of GCC as the kernel is compiled with while configuring VMWARE.

When you run VMWARE, it tells you to add a new Virtual Machine. I added a Microsoft Window XP Professional Machine and asked it to save it on a separate folder on a partition which had enough space. Here, you need to specify how big the harddisk will "appear" to the guest OS. I specified 6 GB. You can also have a lazy allocation, which means you need not have 6GB free, and is allocated as required. This degrades the perfomance a little. So, I asked it to allocate the entire 6GB thing.

And now, I specified it to put the ISO image of Windows XP SP2 Setup CDROM in the CDROM device of the guest OS. It installed just like it does. And worked just like it does. I installed NAV2005 in the system, so that no viruses come. Network is configured to be "automatically detect the IP" and I specified the DNS manually (as we generally do in our college network).

To share data between the OSs, you can use the conventional WinSCP, or there is an option of shared folders in VMWARE. You share the folders of the host (and also specify "write" permissions), and then you can access them in Windows XP as
\\.host\Shared Folders

These can also get mounted as a "mapped network drive". Its really fun. Now, I have the power of Linux, and for some thing which IS good in Win, I can switch VMWARE on.

The VMWARE Guest OSs can SUSPEND themselves just like "hibernate" thing. And thus take 3 seconds rather than 1 minute to boot an entire XP machine. Really great.

If you are running a sound server in Linux, there is problem running it. One option is to switch off the sound server till you are running VMWARE. (which apparently gives the best performance possible). Second option is to tell VMWARE to access your sound server, which is slow, cranky, has no mixer control, but alas, it works!

Install this for doing that..
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmwaredsp-1.3.tar.gz

And download this 'crack' and enter the serial number (without any username,email) given in zwt.nfo. This will allow NON-ROOT users to use VMWARE easily. If you already have an operating system installed as ROOT, just do chown user: -R {OS folder} to let the user use it.
http://flz.anycracks.com/zxcvbnm/V/vmwareworkstationv5.0.0.13124linuxkeygenz.w.t.zip

Note: It is illegal to use cracks. These links are for your own convinience. Use them at your own risk. The author is not responsible for any of your actions.

Also, you can get VMWARE for Windows (as host) here...
http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.exe

When you install an OS completely, click on "VM->Install VMWARE tools" when your OS is completely logged on. This will trigger an install shield just like the install shield of "intel motherboard CDROM" and install the necessary "VMWARE drivers". This will then allow you to increase the resolution to a better value, etc.

I beg you all to choose the MIDDLE PATH, and have the HOST OS as the one which you 'generally' prefer. Something like, love your own religion, but respect others too.

SWAP!

2005-08-13T23:46:00.000-07:00

The swap space is actually some space on the hard disk which Linux uses to cope with "RAM shortage" problems. The processes not required in the RAM are swapped out of the RAM into the DISK. Definitely, if there is space in the RAM, no process should ever go to swap. But, this happened, and about 190 MB of swap was being used, even when I have 350 MB of RAM empty.

Here is the cure..
swapoff -a
swapon -a

It switches off the use of swap and back again, and so, the entire swap is emptied into the RAM, making it normal again. Poor me rebooted instead of doing this. Again, it got reestablised, Linux doesn't need reboots, ever!

There is variable /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is a file which contains a value between 1 and 100, which defines how will kernel behave in swapping, how much and when will it swap. Read some site to know more. I heard "reducing" the value makes it use the swap space less. Its not recommended though to make it ZERO.

KDocker is nice!

2005-08-09T07:41:00.000-07:00

I am not able to use Gaim these days because of the network problems. So, I have to use the silly Yahoo Messenger for Linux. It doesn't even know how to go into the system tray. No problemo! I can make it do that. Just go to www.pbone.net and look for kdocker. Install the one matching with the architechture, or which is the closest to it. I installed.. kdocker-1.3-0.1.3.kde.i386.rpm. Now, I can write "kdocker" in RUN and click on a Window, and it goes into the taskbar. Can be done with my yahoo messenger, my terminal, firefox even! Is really cool :)

Reliance FWP Internet in FC4

2005-08-04T11:57:00.000-07:00

Setting up Internet using Reliance FWP is jus a cake walk ...

These are the steps that need to be followed

Check out whether you have wvdial software installed in your system. For FC4 it is automatically installed, so no issues..
Check in which serial port you have attached the modem (ie WFP) Normally it is ttyS0 or ttyS1

Login as Root user and check the following command "wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf" works..
Finally you should get something like this

"Found a modem on /dev/ttyS0.
Modem configuration written to /etc/wvdial.conf.
ttyS0<Info>: Speed 115200; init "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0"

Next thing is we need to edit the wvdial.conf file, Add the following contents there..

[Modem0]
Modem=/dev/ttyS1
Baud=115200
Dial Command = ATDT
init1=ATZ
init2=AT+CRM=1
Flow Control= Hardware (CRTSCTS)
[Dialer reliance]
Username = YourUserName
Password = YourPassword
Phone = #777
Stupid Mode = 1
Inherits= Modem0

Close the file after saving the contents
Now type in "wvdial reliance" in the prompt ... you should get the following

[root@localhost ~]# wvdial reliance
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: ATQ0
OK
--> Re-Sending: ATZ
OK
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: ATQ0
ATQ0
OK
--> Re-Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: ATQ0
ATQ0
OK
--> Re-Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
[root@localhost ~]# wvdial reliance
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: ATQ0
ATQ0
OK
--> Re-Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: AT+CRM=1
AT+CRM=1
OK
--> Sending: ATM0
ATM0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT#777
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT#777
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Mon Jul 29 00:28:24 2002
--> pid of pppd: 2919
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local IP address 220.226.33.135
--> remote IP address 97.238.2.7
--> primary DNS address 202.138.103.100
--> secondary DNS address 202.138.96.2

Now open up your fav browser.. in my case it is firefox.. jus type in any url and chk if net is working. If it works, you wil be lucky, if not, jus start the service named "service named start"

[root@localhost etc]# service named start
Starting named: [ OK ]

Now if you go back to the previous step.. and chk the pages it would probably load.. if not leave a comment, lets chk out wat can be done

New project .. customizing Fedore Core..

2005-08-04T04:48:00.000-07:00

We are working on a new project to enhance Fedora Core Systems. This is just in the "requirement analysis" stage. You can visit the blog related to the same.

Also, I fixed the time of postingn shown here. Now, it corresponds to IST. :)

P2P sharing, KDE look and feel and me

2005-08-03T10:12:00.000-07:00

Okay, gaim is not working these days. So, no yahoo, no chat.. and a lot of time! Just keep playing with the system.

I was looking at some p2p network sharing software. I found two excellent softwares, DCGUI and LIMEWIRE. DCGUI is a client for Direct Connect protocol based networks and Limewire connects to Gnutella network. DCGUI is Qt/C++ based and Limewire is Java based.

I downloaded
dcgui-qt-0.3.2-0.lvn.1.3.91.src.rpm (rpm.livna.org)
dclib-0.3.2-0.lvn.1.3.91.src.rpm
LimeWireLinux.rpm (www.limewire.com)

and did...
rpm -hiv dc*.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb dclib.spec
cd ../RPMS/i386
rpm -hiv dclib*.rpm
cd ../../SPECS
rpmbuild -bb dcgui-qt.spec
cd ../RPMS/i386
rpm -hiv dcgui*.rpm

and then...
rpm -hiv --nodeps LimeWireLinux.rpm
--nodeps was required because I did not install JRE but there was a JRE because I had JDK1.5.0 installed and its bin directory was in the system path variable.

Rest of the time I spent installing some themes and other stuff from http://www.kde-look.org.

At the end of the day... I realized that neither gaim, nor kopete will work. What worked was yahoo messenger for Linux(RH9).
rpm -hiv rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm (http://messenger.yahoo.com)

Works, works bad... but still.. it works!!

Playing with enlightenment....

2005-08-02T00:09:00.000-07:00

So, as I mentioned that I am returning to my KDE, I did. But then, this new thing, Enlightenment kept me wanting to explore more, customize it and make it easy. So, I explored more...

yum install entangle e_utils

Then, I typed,
enlightenment_remote -module-load engage

And then, there was a new panel for me, which could have icons and supported the system tray. We can edit it using 'entangle'. To delete an icon, just middle click it. To add a new icon, drag-n-drop from the list given on the left, simple isn't it? No. To find out an icon for "konsole" from the list on the left, it took me 5 mins, and I am still looking for 'kaffeine', hehe.

There is a run command which apparently appeared after installing e_utils.
We can use e_util_eapp_edit to create our custom application links, but I don't know how it works.

When I run gaim, engage, the panel, shows it in the system tray, so thats now something familiar, hehe. I am trying to get some new themes into it and trying to learn to create a shortcut for my applications. And for gods sake, where are my DESKTOP ICONS!!

References:
http://www.mepislovers.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=8731&forum=9
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t343955.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t282467.html
http://www.enlightenment.org/

Enlightenment!!!!

2005-08-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

Ok, today I got to know that there is some new desktop environment called enlightenment. So, I looked up the yum repository for it and added it. Then, just run yumex to install enlightenment and the dependencies.

Started off well, it was a new environment, not very fine in the functionality but it beats Windows Vista lookwise. So much configurable look, but hardly could I put my favorite icons on its panel(so called IBar). Its difficult to terminate programs and to run konsole, you need to run konqueror and then run konsole. There is no run command and kill is very buggy. Killed windows keep popping up and its overall difficult to handle it.

I am back into my KDE, but I'll keep experimenting as an when I get more time.

Another useful package on www.pbone.net is gnome-yum-fedora-repositories-0.1-1.ta.28.fc4.i386.rpm. This installs all the required repositories which needed to be installed manually into the various .repo files. Quite handy for those lazy ones!

Java on Fedora Core....

2005-08-01T02:52:00.000-07:00

Did you try installing JDK on FC4? It doesn't work. First of all, FC4 comes with its own javac and java, so you should keep in mind that you don't install the java RPM from the sun's site. You should download the self extracting .bin file.

When you run it as root, after
chmod 755 *.bin
ofcourse, it gives and error that the graphical user interface could not be started. It is NOT a problem of xhost or anything, so no need to try out that way. Its all because of SELinux... SECURITY ENHANCED LINUX. You need to do just this much.
reboot
press E at grub..
press E at the kernel line..
append selinux=off at the end of the kernel line..
press enter..
goto the root line..
press b..

You can also add it into your /etc/grub.conf for permanently doing it. Then the jdk setup along with netbeans works just fine.

There is another editor called eclipse which is prebuilt into FC4. After you install JDK, WTK2.2, you can install eclipseME from http://www.eclipseme.org/ and then follow their instructions to add J2ME support to eclipse. I couldn't understand how to create a J2ME project in it, so I used the familiar Netbeans with its add-on Mobility pack.

Happy Java!

yumEX .... unbelievable!!

2005-07-30T01:35:00.000-07:00

Okay, here is a problem which I didn't solve which makes our life much easier. It is mentioned that yumex is a GUI interface for YUM. But, somehow it didn't just work. I use a internet connection behind a proxy, so a lot of applications fail to work. So I thought, so did yumEX(yum extender).

now, I did...
yum install yumex
to install it...
then.....

yumex -n
(to load it without refreshing the package list)
and then type ....
http://192.168.36.204:8080/"
in preferences->proxy. Please note that the "http://" is very important and it doesn't make it intuitively run if you just type the URL or the ip address. Now, YUM is graphical.... its YUMEX!!

MySQL .... permissions crap...

2005-07-28T23:19:00.000-07:00

My PC is actually a server which serves 3-4 websites and has a database for the various queries. As you all know, I shifted from FC2 to FC4, the permissions of the database as well as the database got erased, err...was so silly of me to not back it up.

Anyways, I wanted to create and set up the permission back to normal. So I started the service mysql and made it run by default from
system-config-services

Then, I opened a konsole as root and typed mysql to get into its shell prompt.
{create commands to create all the required databases and tables}
use mysql
delete from user where user='';
insert into user(host,user,password) values("hostname","username",password("password")); //create a password protected account
insert into user(host,user) values("hostname","username"); // open account
quit
service mysqld restart
mysql
grant all on {dbname}.* to 'username'@'hostname';
.
.
.
quit
service mysqld restart

This way I granted the permissions 'all' of some databases to my apache so that the websites can process queries of my websites, and also granted some of the users permissions to access some of the databases.

The main thing to note down is that most of the times you make a change, mysql doesn't start using it, so if you experience problems, each time you make one change, you should exit mysql shell and then restart the mysqld service.

To log in to a mysql shell as the current user, you need to type
mysql -p // if you created a password protected account.
mysql -u {username} -p // to log on as a different password protected user.
mysql // to logon into your own open account
mysql -u {username} // someone elses open account

And still going strong.....

2005-07-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

Well, Fedora Core 4 is working as fine as ever. A few more patches to yum are as follows...
add...
timeout=300
proxy=http://ip:port
in /etc/yum.conf in the main section.

Also, you need to install the GPG keys of the repositories in order to be able to use them. To do this, write...
rpm --import {filename}
where {filename} is a text file containing the key.

Download the keys of the various servers from these URLs..
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
http://dries.studentenweb.org/ayo/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt
http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/gpg-pubkey-newrpms.txt
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/*GPG-KEY*
http://www.atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

and added /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
[at-stable]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable

This all makes yum all the more powerful...

tried today....
yum install w32codec
yum install gaim-guifications.

Its easier than you expect it to be!!

2005-07-27T03:09:00.000-07:00

Boot into Fedora Core 4 and your worst nightmares look to come true. No AUDIO SUPPORT, NO VIDEO PLAYER, media support is all messed up. Fedora Core 4 come WITHOUT the traditional XMMS. Totem and others are incapable of playing any copyrighted format, that is, no mpeg, no avi, no mp3!

Most of us would then just try to google for stuff and get it working. 'I' wasted 5 hours trying to fix the problems. Then I found an interesting site. Its URL is..
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html

It gives an overview of what to do when you get FC4. Then, I just undid everything I had done till then, and added these yum repositories by making these files....

/etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
-------------------------
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

/etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo
---------------------------
[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
mirrors=http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc4/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

/etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo
--------------------------------
[core]
name=FreshRPMS-Core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
#[extras]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - extras
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/extras
#enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
[updates]
name=FreshRPMS-Updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMS-Fresh
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

/etc/yum.repos.d/newrpms.repo
------------------------------
[newrpms.sunsite.dk]
name=Fedora Core 4 i386 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc4
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

and then specified my proxy by typing
export http_proxy="http://192.168.36.204:8080/"
(this line can be added in ~/.bashrc for convinience)

Then it was so so easy,...
yum install yumex
yum install kaffeine
yum install amarok
yum install mplayer
yum install gaim-guifications

A lot of times it crashes if the servers do not respond. You can manually install the package yum is trying to download from a {repository} and place it in /var/cache/yum/{repository}/packages and it will use them directly. This is particularly useful for large packages where a download accelerator is better than using yum.

Then, I wanted to make mp3 in KDE work and its players to be able to play it. I needed to upgrade KDE 3.4.0-2 with KDE 3.4.1, that is the kdemultimedia package. I uninstalled kdemultimedia-devel because it depended on the kdemultimedia-3.4.0-2 package. I tried to install kdemultimedia-3.4.1 which was pached for playing mp3 files. I had to download kdelibs kdebase kdelibs-devel and kdebase-devel with version 3.4.1 from the Fedora Core 4 updates site to satisfy the dependencies. That worked fine after upgrading the following packages...
kdebase-3.4.1-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.4.1-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm ( downloaded from Fedora Core 4 updates )
kdebase-devel-3.4.1-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-3.4.1-0.fc4.1.i386.rpm
kdemultimedia-mp3-3.4.1-0.i386.rpm << was download from some random site.

and finally...
yum install amarok-arts
and get amarok play "mp3" with the "arts" engine, which we have to change. Default is gstreamer.

Now I am just playing with it.
yum install blah
and well, most of the time it starts installing. YUM RULZ!

Finally, just want to say... its Linux... so what... its easier than you expect it to be!!

It purrs. It hums. It mesmerizes. It is ... FEDORA CORE FOUR.

2005-07-26T01:35:00.000-07:00

How to get Fedora Core Foured!!
-------------------------------
I was stuck with my great working Fedora Core 2 when I suddenly realized that my OS is old. I need an upgrade. So I took a CD and burnt Fedora Core 4 disk 1. And I dumped the all of the isos in a folder C:\fc4 or rather /dev/hda2/fc4. Now, I booted the CD. IT CRASHED!

I looked up the internet. We need to perform a simple tweak to install FC4 on Intel based systems. So, I booted, and typed...
garbage
and pressed enter... it gave an error. Then I typed...
linux askmethod
it asked about how to install, I ordered it to install by the hard drive and specified the folders and all. The partitioning was just reformating my / of Fedora Core 2. I selected installing everything on a 15 GB / partition with 1 GB of swap space.

Wireless setup
--------------
After I installed FC4, my first task was to somehow get my wireless network working. I have a level one 802.11g card with a Atheros AR5212 chipset. I downloaded and installed
madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm
madwifi-kmdl-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm
from www.atrpms.net. Then I wrote
alias ath0 ath_pci
in the /etc/modprobe.conf
and created a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 containing..
STARTMODE=hotplug
DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
WIRELESS=yes
MODE=Managed
ESSID='IIIT WLAN'
IPV6INIT=no
onBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Wireless

and then run
neat
to just select the essid and network key to make it work. Key was of the format 0xX where X was a 26 digit hexadecimal code without any other symbols. This made the network work.

Most things just work
---------------------
The browser, the KDE, the gaim messenger, the office, the games just work. So there was no need for any configuration. I just selected a good theme for KDE and also made KDE as my default desktop from Start->Preferences->Desktop Switching Tool.

Windows applications
--------------------
I had wine and cedega-4.0.1 setups. So I installed the rpms, Condition Zero worked fine with sound after I switched off the sound server arts, but the font were all messed up, am looking for a fix.

Firefox extensions
------------------
I installed some useful extensions to the perfect browser "firefox" which ships with Fedora Core 4.

Hindi Support
-------------
Just add the Hindi Keyboard layout from Control Center to be able to type in Hindi too!

DNS Resolution
--------------
/etc/resolve.conf
nameserver 192.168.36.204
this one line made linux applications take the DNS servers to resolve the URLs to be the IP address specified.

More to come..
--------------
I am still playing with it. Will write more as and when I do things...

Repairing some minor flaws in Amarok! (MPEG Head parse error)

2005-07-26T01:33:00.000-07:00

Fix for amarok build collection crash
-------------------------------------
Amarok was crashing badly because of a lot of errors,
so I fixed it. One of the errors was a corrupt "taglib" package.
So, I compiled it from source and installed.

rpm -hiv taglib-1.3.1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb taglib.spec
cd ../RPMS/i386
rpm -Uvh --force taglib-*

I had to use force because it was exactly the same version which was installed.

--------------------------------------------
Fix for gstreamer
-----------------
I got to know that apparently with gstreamer in FC2,
there is no mp3 support, so I downloaded
gstreamer-0.8.7-0.1.fc2.fr.src.rpm and...

rpm -hiv gstreamer*.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb gstreamer.spec
cd ../RPMS/i386
rpm -Uvh gstreamer*

Still gstreamer-plugins is the old 0.8.5-1 package,
and I am looking for rpms.

---------------------------------------------
Finally, I just did
rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok
rm -f .kde/share/config/amarokrc

and then amarok worked fine!!

Installing Amarok over KDE 3.4 In FC2

2005-07-26T01:32:00.000-07:00

Installing Amarok
-----------------
I installed AMAROK on my Fedora Core 2 system after installing KDE 3.4.
First I downloaded the prerequisites, and installed them, and then followed the steps.

Also, on the first run, amarok needs to be configured to use the "arts engine" for audio. And then it works fine.

This one is compiled "without mysql support".
I could not enable it because compiling it with a --enable-mysql option gave an error in the admin/config.pl script,
saying that @mysql_enable_FALSE@ is a malformed pattern.

Anyways, it still works very fine.

Prerequisites
-------------
amarok-1.2.2-1.src.rpm
libvorbis-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm
taglib-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
taglib-devel-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
libvisual-devel-0.2.0-2.i386.rpm
libvisual-0.2.0-2.i386.rpm
gstreamer-0.8.7-0.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1.i386.rpm
gstreamer-devel-0.8.7-0.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.5-1.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.5-0.lvn.2.3.i386.rpm
libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm

Steps
-----
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb amarok.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS
rpm -hiv amarok*

Warning
-------
Please remove following packages from the system. They conflict with qt's libraries, and amarok fails to run.
- qt3-3.3.4-8.i586.rpm
- qt3-non-mt-3.3.3-36.i586.rpm
- qt3-non-mt-3.3.4-8.i586.rpm

Installing KDE 3.4 on Fedora Core 2

2005-07-26T01:30:00.000-07:00

Steps I followed to install KDE 3.4 on my system
------------------------------------------------
I had the default KDE which is shipped with Fedora Core 2. I wanted to get the
new KDE 3.4 in my system. So, I used the steps below, and got it working. I
have noted down the sequence. Might be of help to you.

I opened www.kde.org and in the Download/Stable version section/Redhat(Unofficial packages)/Fedora Core 2/i386/RPMS
... downloaded all the RPM files in a folder.
I then copied all these files to /var/cache/yum/KDE-3.4/packages/ directory.

After that, I removed the package named below.
I looked up google.com, rpmfind.net and freshrpms.net
to install the packages under the "rpm -Uvh" section.

After that, I just run YUM. As I had already put the RPMs in the yum folder,
it installed them without waiting to download.
I did that because yum is certainly much slower that any download accelerator.
Though, some packages it did download for satisfying dependencies.
But that doesn't take much time.

Hope you don't have any problems installing it.

One more thing is that I installed kaffeine 0.6 and amarok,
which failed to work. Please tell me if they work for you.

For any queries mail to anurag_rana [AT] students [DOT] iiit [DOT] net
.... or to anurag [dot] s [dot] rana [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks.

Regards,
Anurag.

rpm -e
------
kdeartwork-icons

rpm -Uvh
--------
fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386.rpm
jasper-1.701.0-3.i386.rpm
libidn-0.4.6-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
openslp-1.0.11-0.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
meanwhile-0.4.1-1.1.fc2.rf.i386.rpm
graphviz-2.2-1.1.fc2.rf.i386.rpm
lcms-1.14-1.1.fc2.rf.i386.rpm
valgrind-2.1.1-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
OpenEXR-1.2.2-0.1.2.kde.i386.rpm
redhat-artwork-0.122-2.1.3.kde.i386.rpm
desktop-file-utils-0.9-1.1.fc2.nr.i386.rpm
redhat-menus-3.7.1-1.fc3.noarch.rpm
pinentry-0.7.1-9.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
libmal0-0.31-7mdk.i586.rpm
libmDNSResponder-0.9.6_0-0.9.6-6_4.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm

yum command
-----------
yum upgrade kde*

kernel
------
2.6.10-1.14_FC2

yum.conf
--------
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

#[development]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable

[KDE-3.4]
name=KDE 3.4 Upgrade server
baseurl=http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/fedora/2/i386/
http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/$releasever/stable
http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable
ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/fedora/2/i386/
ftp://ftp.eu.uu.net/pub/kde/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/fedora/2/i386/
ftp://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/fedora/2/i386/
http://ftp.tiscali.nl/kde/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/fedora/2/i386/
ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/3.4/contrib/kde-redhat/fedora/2/i386/

[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMs
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
http://ftp.us2.freshrpms.net/linux/freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
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Fedora Core Solutions...

2005-07-26T01:25:00.000-07:00

Hi people,

This blog is not about a person or any happenings or any stories. It just covers some of the issues I faced with my tryst with Fedora Core. Please read and comment. If you are also a motivated Linux user, you can ask me to allow you to join this blog and write about your own experiments.

Regards,
Anurag.