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Jan 20, 2013
How To Install Adobe Reader and Flash on Fedora 18
Fedora 18 has been officially released and it is time to get the How To’s started on getting many of the regularly used programs and configurations started. Adobe reader and Adobe Flash are no exception. Install Flash 11 Adding Adobe’s YUM repository makes it very easy also keep up-to-date with Flash Player Plugin. Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 $ sudo rpm -ivh... read more
Dec 22, 2012
How to Create RPM’s from CPAN modules using Cpan2rpm
You know how it is sometimes working on corporate servers that are in DMZ’s and have firewalls blocking them from accessing Internet and getting to modules, programs and such. You can’t directly and you find ways around to get the files to the systems, that’s a good thing and just part of being an admin. Thus is the case in this instance with installing a CPAN program on an RHEL server.... read more
Oct 26, 2012
How To Install and Configure HPLIP on Fedora 17
It’s great to have all-in-one devices and some of the great printers that HP makes but, it is also sometimes an issue in Linux to not be able to use all of the features and functionality. With HP this is not a big issue with HPLIP. HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) is print, scan and fax drivers for Linux. While CUPS is great for getting the basics for printing there are some of the CUPS drivers... read more
Oct 17, 2012
How To Setup and Use NFS on RHEL 5/6
I know this is probably old hat for a many out there but there are many newbies out there and even a few crusty admins that need to know, or be reminded how to setup NFS (Network File Sharing) to export and share files / directories on Linux systems. There are several services that need to be running for NFS to work properly. They are portmap, nfs and nfslock. Enable the services and start them using... read more
Oct 16, 2012
How To Play Blu-Ray on Fedora 17
Always wanting to be able to do the same thing on Linux that I do on Windows I found myself taking the challenge of playing Blu-Ray on Linux. There are several posts on the net that explain how to achieve this on Ubuntu but not any on Fedora. One thing that was common was the mention of the VideoLan project and VLC which had created the libaacs and libbluray libraries needed for BluRay playback. All that... read more
