Sep 29, 2012
Scanning and Printing to Epson Artisan 725 on Fedora 17
It is a wonderful thing to get a new toy to play with, but frustrating when you plug it in and then the trouble begins. It works with most systems but sometimes there is one that just wants to cause a bit of pain. Well that happened recently when I tried to install my Epson Artisan To enjoy scanning over the on Fedora 17. This issue was getting the scanning features to work with GIMP. Previously I was... read more
Aug 7, 2012
How to install Plex Media Server 0.9.6.6 on CentOS / Fedora / RHEL
In an earlier post we covered installing Plex Media Server 0.9.6.3 on a Windows 7 system. In this post we’ll cover how to install and configure on a Linux system, CentOS 6.2 to be exact, but this process can be used on Fedora / and RHEL as well. First make sure you meet the system requirements. System Requirements: 1.6 GHz processor (2.4 GHz dual core for 1080p transcoding). 256 MB RAM Gigabit... read more
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
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
