Fedora
How to install VirtualBox 4.0 on Fedora 13 and 14
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64Â virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See [...]
How to activate desktop sharing under Fedora
Fedora uses a program called Virtual Networking Computing (VNC) to facilitate remote desktop sharing. Therefore, the remote viewer must use VNC as well. The Microsoft Windows operating system uses the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) protocol by default; therefore, a third party client must be used if connecting from Windows. Apple’s OS X uses VNC by [...]
utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing.
When i was compiling php on a fedora machine i was getting the follwoing error ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/php –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs –with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql –with-curl=/usr/local/curl –with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/libxml2 –with-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib –enable-soap –enable-zip  –enable-ftp –with-xsl=/usr/local/libxslt  –with-gd=/usr –with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/jpeg6 –with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib –with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib –with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/freetype –enable-pdo=/usr/local –with-pdo-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql –enable-mbstring –with-imap –with-imap-ssl –with-kerberos utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing. This should not happen. Check config.log for additional information. After [...]
How To Enable Secure (SSL) IMAP & POP3 With Self-Signed Certificate
First you need to find the location to place the certificate and key file. Open dovecot.conf file (Location: /etc/dovecot.conf) and search for pem. You will find two lines like: #ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem These indicate the default location of the key and certificate file. Note: You are likely to find that there is [...]
How To Install IMAP & POP3 Server For Fedora Core 4
You can use the dovecot package that comes with Fedora Core 4. The process is simple. su chkconfig –levels 35 dovecot on service dovecot start In plain english this is what you are doing above: – Logging in a root – Configuring dovecot to start as service for level 3 (console based) and 5 (GUI [...]
How to Install VLC (VideoLAN Client) on Fedora
Multimedia can be the achilles heel of Linux, but with just a little work you should be able to play just about anything your friends can. Besides Mplayer the other great video player is called VLC. It too is trivially easy to install once you have your repositories set up: # yum -y install vlc [...]
How to Install MP3 Plug-in in Fedora
To automatically install the MP3 plug-ins for xmms and Rhythmbox like this: # yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 gstreamer-plugins-ugly \ gstreamer-plugins-bad libmad libid3tag While you’re here you might as well install my personal favorite (this week at least) music player Banshee: # yum -y install banshee The -y flag is to automatically answer yes [...]
How to Upgrade your Fedora
One of the great new features is to be able to do a live upgrade from an older Fedora release to Fedora 9. You simply have to install the new package called preupgrade and run the program as root: # yum -y install preupgrade # preupgrade This process does take a LONG TIME, requires a [...]
How to Enable the IPtables in Fedora
Linux comes with advanced tools for packet filtering — the process of controlling network packets as they enter, move through, and exit the network stack within the kernel. Pre-2.4 kernels relied on ipchains for packet filtering and used lists of rules applied to packets at each step of the filtering process. The introduction of the 2.4 kernel brought with it iptables (also called netfilter), which is similar to ipchains but greatly expands on the scope and control available for filtering network packets.
How to enable IP forwarding in Fedora
To be able to use IP forwarding, you must tell the kernel that it’s okay to forward traffic from one network card to another. This setting is found in /etc/sysctl.conf. Set net.ipv4.ip_forward to 1. To do this, execute: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo “net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1″ >> /etc/sysctl.conf The first command enables IP forwarding now, [...]
How to Install and configure vncserver on Fedora
Vncserver is just another application available in almost all the available Linux based distros. Configuring vncserver is very easy. But the default desktop view in vncviewer is gray scale desktop with very pathetic GUI. To view normal Gnome or KDE desktop in vncviewer, assigning a custom port for usage, user configuration and to adjust the [...]
How to Install and Configure Caching DNS on Fedora
BIND DNS are nameservers responsible basically for resolving domain names or hostnames into their equivalent IP addresses. Websites or domain names have their own equivalent IP addresses that are usually managed and provided by the same website firms. If somebody is browsing a website from his browser, this website is being resolved, looked up and [...]