Sunday, November 22, 2009

Google Chrome on Fedora

Yes, Now its available on Linux. The much waited Google Chrome on Linux. Its still an unstable version available on Linux, but is worth a try.


Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo with the contents below

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0


Install chrome

yum install google-chrome

Enjoy

Saturday, November 21, 2009

I'm There with FC12 (Fedora Core 12) and IBM desktop apps :)

Well it was a journey of a Linux freak . I lost the data in my entire TP. Thank heavens, I had my backup done in my USB HDD.

It all started up with FC12 The installation went fine, I didn't take a chance with putting ext4 file system on /boot partition as it was not working on FC11. The installation went fine and I got the IBM layer installed on it. Thanks to Grant Williamson for making appropriate packages available in the IBM yum repo. He was too good with his support. I was happy except that the mouse pointer was slow after the installation of the IBM layer. I tuned it through the Gnome preferences. Thanks Srini for the autoten repo to make the nonfree stuff working . Everything was set up and I was ready to click the Lotus notes icon. To my surprise nothing really happened. I tried the command line notes85.sh and it failed telling that the libnotes.so is not able to create a stack.

Phew!! the entire work has gone on a toss. I checked the logs and it showed that the Selinux is giving some permission errors. I turned the Selinux policy to permissive and then restarted notes. It worked like a charm!! :).

Now came the next issue. The Clearcase client which was running fine on FC11 has started giving me some errors. It started telling me that the libswt-mozilla-gtk-3236.so has some undefined symbol _ZN4nsID5ParseEPKc. Hmm.. I know what it means :-P. I got the xulrunner-devel package installed and made clearcase happy.

I haven't tried KDE yet. I want to keep up suspense and excitement, and gift me a surprise.

Here are my favourite apps, Being a hardcore KDE fan some of the apps below may not work well with Gnome.

Chat/IM - empathy/pidgin/sametime
IRC - Konversation
Password management - Kwallet
Personal Finance - kmymoney
Email - Lotus Notes / thunderbird
Twitter Microblogging - choqok
Notes - Tomboy/Kjots
Editor - vim/gedit/kate
Browser - Firefox/chrome/seamonkey
Music - amarok/rhythmbox
Other tools- rsibreak,digikam,gimp,picasa
IDE - Rational Application Developer/Eclipse

Using DVD as your Yum repo - FC12

Its as simple as this

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dvd.repo

Put the following entries

[dvd]
name=Fedora DVD
baseurl=file:///media/Fedora\ 12\ i386\ DVD/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0


Save and start using it :).

If you have a DVD image, them loop mount it to some location and modify the dvd.repo file as below

To Loop mount

mount -o loop /path/of/DVD.iso_file /path/to/your/mount_poin
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dvd.repo file

[dvd]
name=Fedora DVD
baseurl=file:///path/to/your/mountpoint
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0