October 26, 2009 – 7:34 pm
I just got word that a patch I submitted will be included in Fedora 12.
OK, so the problem was a simple typo in system-config-kickstart, which caused it to crash when invoked with the –generate option. Something a junior high kid could fix. But that’s not the point.
I post this, not to blow my [...]
October 22, 2009 – 7:40 pm
Back from a post Constantine upgrade reboot. Network Manager applet problems … gone!
Sound playing problems persist; I could head to some Fedora Forum and bitch up a storm to the effect that “#@%!@ sound don’t work!”, but since I know little about the underpinnings, I’ll do the research, use Uncle Google, and if I get [...]
October 22, 2009 – 7:21 pm
Last Tuesday, Constantine, the Fedora 12 Beta, was released. I make it a point to upgrade sooner rather than later. And, thanks to Fedora’s preupgrade, followed by 1.1G of downloads, and what seemed to be interminable disk-thrashing, the upgrade finished, and /etc/redhat-release now reveals:
Fedora release 11.92 (Rawhide)
Thus far, Constantine has performed well. A few sound [...]
calibre, an e-book reader’s best companion, has been upgraded to v. 0.6.5.
In keeping with my history of tips and tricks for installing calibre on Fedora, I offer the following, based on the install I just completed. I’m running Fedora 11, and this worked for me.
I had to install
poppler-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586poppler-qt4-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586poppler-qt4-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
to get calibre to install and have [...]
One of the many enhancements in Fedora 11 is delta RPMs. Delta RPMs are updates that contain only the updated files, rather than all files in the original RPM. This saves download time; nice if you’re updating over a slow internet connection. To use this feature; do this:
yum install yum-presto
Now, on your next [...]
Commenter Chris points out that my previous instructions assumed a 32-bit version of Fedora. And he is correct; the Amazon MP3 downloader is a 32-bit application. I see no reason it shouldn’t work on a 64-bit OS, provided the 32 bit version of certain libraries are present; these are the libs of interest:
libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => [...]
Amazon was less than understanding about my request for source code for their MP3 downloader. They were prompt and courteous in their response; that alone is rare. They don’t release source, and gosh, why don’t I use a Fedora release on which the downloader has been tested? Well, first, because it’s Fedora 9, two releases [...]
calibre 0.5.11 now runs strong and tall on my Linux laptop. I wonder how much I’ll really need to reformat personal content after the Kindle DX is on-board. I think the DX is going to handle my PDF manuals just fine.
I think, though, I’ll keep up with calibre. Who knows? I may hit some [...]
I saw this FriendFeed post from Dave earlier, and his post about The Band. I always liked The Band; even though the $1.99 Amazon special on the greatest hits album that Dave references appears to have expired, I thought this may be a good day to stock up on some good tunage.
I’ve downloaded MP3s [...]
Appearing in a sidebar near you, the Fedora 11 Countdown to Release clock. You needn’t wait. The beta is stable, and you can get it now. They don’t call it beta; they call it pre-release. I’m thankful I don’t understand marketingspeak. The software works, and it’s great. Go get it. Don’t cost [...]
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