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Sep 10, 2013
xterm-256color error in Fedora 18 and 19
After upgrading to the latest release of Fedora I started noticing an error when connecting to older RHEL and Solaris servers and getting an error. This change was implemented in Fedora 18 to allow for support of 256 color terminals. xterm-256color: Unknown terminal type I don’t know what kind of terminal you are on – all I have is ‘xterm-256color’ This was causing issues trying to... read more
Jul 31, 2013
How to Install WinFF on Fedora
WinFF is an open source and cross platform GUI video converter that takes the power of command line conversions and puts a GUI front end on it. I have used this on Windows for many years and it has always done well for me. So why not put it on Fedora and see how it does? We can install the repository and install from the command line and have the ability to receive updates. Let’s install the... read more
Jul 28, 2013
How To Install WordPress on Fedora 18 / 19
Looking to start working on WordPress sites, developing new themes or just want to hack around on it? Well what better place to start then on your system. This post covers how to install WordPress on your Fedora 18/19 install. So let’s get started! First we will need to install the dependencies for WordPress which comprise of,httpd, PHP 5.2.x, mysql-server and eventually WordPress itself. With the... read more
Feb 10, 2013
How To Install Skype on Fedora 18 x64
Skype is a widely used application and running Skype is easy to do on Fedora 18 x64, so how do we install it? First we need to install the 32 bit libraries. $ sudo yum -y install libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 qtwebkit.i686 Download the Skype rpm from the website http://www.skype.com/go/linux. The current... read more
Feb 8, 2013
How To Install LibreOffice 4.0 on Fedora 18
Today is the big day, LibreOffice 4.0 has been released and there many new features. We are going to show how to install LibreOffice 4.0 on Fedora 18. Ever since the fork I have been using LibreOffice and it has never disappointed me, so I had to see what 4.0 has and get it on Fedora 18. So here is how it is done. First we need to remove the LibreOffice install and remove them. Using the handy rpm command... read more
