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Jun 7, 2012
Install Adobe Flash Player on Fedora 17 / 16
This document explains how to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin version 11.2 (32-bit and 64-bit) with YUM on Fedora 17/16 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 http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm $ sudo rpm –import... read more
Jun 7, 2012
Install Google Chrome on Fedora 16/17
This explains how to install Google Chrome on Fedora 16/17. First we need to add the Google yum repository to your system, for this we will add the 32 and 64 bit repositories. Create the following file with root privileges. $ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo Add the following contents and save the file. [google-chrome] name=google-chrome – 64-bit... read more
Jun 6, 2012
Copying Files to Multiple Systems Simultaneously
Have you ever wonder a simple way to copy files and run commands on multiple machines from one command? Well there are several tools available that will allow us to do just that. I will discuss just pssh (Parallel SSH). pssh (Parallel SSH) pssh (Parallel SSH) is a command line tool that includes pscp and allows you to send commands and copy files to multiple server via a list or individually. Makes it... read more
May 30, 2012
Upgrade Fedora 16 to Fedora 17
Good news!! Fedora 17 has been released officially in the wild. Now the fun part, do we upgrade or fresh install? Well for my part I am upgrading. easy for me there is a simple way to upgrade using PreUpgrade package from Fedora. Open a terminal session and first make sure your system has the latest updates. $ sudo yum update Now lets install the preupgrade package. $ sudo yum install preupgrade Once the... read more
Apr 14, 2012
Disable ipv6 on CentOS 6
With several late CentOS 6.2 systems being built on the network I have been running into network disconnect and performance issues being caused by IPV6. Since I am currently not using it on my network I decided to disable it. Here is what I found from several different resources on the Internet. We can modify /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1... read more
