Jan 24, 2013 Posted by newlife007

How To Disable ipv6 Fedora 17/18

IPV6 is coming, but it is not here yet, so say you want to disable it on your Fedora 18 system. Pretty simple to do. First let’s edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file. $ sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf Add and save the changes net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 To eliminate the default ipv6 addresses still appear on the interfaces open a terminal and type Type ifconfig to get... read more

Nov 21, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner on Fedora 17

The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner is not supported in Fedora 17 by sane. In a previous post I describe how to install this scanner on Ubuntu. The process is similar except for the package names and commands. To get the scanner to work in Fedora you must download and install third party software. This how to describes how I was able to install it on Fedora 17 64-bit. Make sure sane and xsane are... read more

Oct 25, 2012 Posted by newlife007

How to install NIVIDIA drivers on Fedora 17

Recently i felt the need to upgrade the video card to an NVIDIA GT610 on my Fedora 17 system and with that thought installing the proprietary drivers might be a good idea. Lucky for me rpmfusion provides the drivers I am looking for installation. First step is to make sure your are at the latest kernel, so run $ sudo yum update kernel\* selinux-policy\* and reboot after completed. Second step is to make... read more

Jun 6, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Fix Corrupt Yum Database

Recently ran across an issue when  running yum update that threw a db3 error similar to this: rpmdb: Thread/process 16539/140090604701600 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 –  (-30974) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm... read more

Dec 23, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Install Virtualbox 4.1.8 Fedora 15

Recently I wanted to add a small network to test Windows 2008 clusters and to use for training for Windows 2008 R2 certification. To do this with minimal costs I looked to virtualization. To do that I had to install Virtualbox or VMWare Workstation. While VMWare workstation is great, it costs money., so Virtualbox is the way to go. This post describes how to install Virtualbox on Fedora 15. Look for... read more