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Local cache / 'repo' of updates and added RPM's
by JayLinux 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

I had to re-install Fedora 10 on a home desktop PC. In regard to this: Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through PackageKit), e.g. Opera, Adobe Reader, etc. so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L) This would be similar to the 'aptonCD' package in Ubuntu ( http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/) APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one > or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages > you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository > that you can use on other computers. > APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your > .deb packages located in one specific repository, so that you can install > them into your computers without the need for an internet connection. Thanks, Jay -- Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686)

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changing GDM background image on F12
by Fred Smith 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi! I've looked thru the forums and done some googling but I don't see an answer THAT WORKS for this question: How to change the default GDM background/wallpaper to some other image? I've tried all the things listed in the forums and none of them works, including (but not limited to) copying the image I want into /usr/share/backgrounds/images then running this command: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --set --type string "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" "/usr/share/backgrounds/images/Fistmaster.FullHD.0190.jpg" having done that either log off or reboot and voila! no change at all! :( Thanks in advance. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ------------------------ ---- Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) -----------------------------

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PPPoE over WLAN
by Andreas Waldenburger 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi there, the network at my university requires me to first connect to the WLAN and then use PPPoE to actually use the intertubes. Connecting to the WLAN itself works flawlessly (*hem*), the PPPoE though is a bit troublesome. I first tried setting this up via the DSL tab in Gnome's NetworkManager, but that didn't work. The connection is listed (not very surprisingly) under the wired networks, not under the wireless ones. I tried to be sneaky and entered my wlan-adapter's MAC address in the "wired" tab, but that only made the entry disappear from the network listing entirely (in the menu that you see when you left-click the notification icon). I did manage to set up the connection by running pppoe-setup as root. And although I did configure it to start at system boot, this doesn't happen. So now I have to run ifup as root every time I want to connect to the internet. To make things more annoying the WLAN connection disconnects somewhat frequently (lousy administration), prompting me do do ifdown and ifup each time that happens. Any way to have this PPPoE connection up automatically, preferably via NetworkManager? Any help is much appreciated. /W

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Perl TK
by Patrick Dupre 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hello, Before, this application was working fine ! I am in Fedora 10 last update (before means ~ 2 weeks !!) Now, the file name is not anymore transfered and it never live the widget ! I am also experiencing problem with JFileDialog #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Tk ; use strict ; my $types = [ ['Text Files', ['.txt', '.text']], ['TCL Scripts', '.tcl' ], ['C Source Files', '.c', 'TEXT'], ['GIF Files', '.gif', ], ['GIF Files', '', 'GIFF'], ['All Files', '*', ], ]; my $main = MainWindow -> new () ; my $filename = $main -> getOpenFile (-filetypes => $types) ; if ($filename ne "") { # Open the file ... print $filename ; } -- --- ========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry | | Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York | | Fax: (44)-(0)-1904-432516 Heslington | | York YO10 5DD United Kingdom | | email: pd520(a)york.ac.uk ==========================================================================

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Webstart
by Oliver Ruebenacker 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

Hello, This one opens fine under any Windows or Mac computer I can get hold of, but not on my F11: $javaws http://vcell.org/webstart/Rel/vcell.jnlp netx: Unexpected net.sourceforge.jnlp.ParseException: Invalid XML document syntax. at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Parser.getRootNode(Parser.java:1200) I'm not sure when was the last time this worked under F11. Any hope this will work in the near future? Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/sybil) Turning Knowledge Data into Models Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org

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two major failures after yesterday updates - anyone else
by mike cloaked 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

I have had an unprecented pair of events last night and this morning - two machines (both Dell Inspiron 530s desktops) have died completely ( unbootable) - having been running on f11 very successfully for some time. I had no reason to suspect the hardware at all and both were running fine from new a couple of years ago - but I am now wondering if this has anything to do with updates that came in on 28th October. The new kernel and a number of other updates were installed yesterday morning on both machines. Both were also using ext4 files systems. I would like to know if this is a chance event or related to kernel changes, particularly related to ext4? If nobody else has anything remotely similar happen then I will conclude that I am just very very unlucky - but I would like to know if anybody else has had a mysterious total failure of their system in the past 24 hours. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/two-major-failures-after-yesterday-updates---anyone-e… Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tomcat6 docs
by Boggiano 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hi all, I'm a newbie tomcat user, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question! ;) I've installed the package tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.18-9.2.fc11.noarch, but it contains all zero size html files. Of course, I can't see anything, as well, if I use the URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/docs/ Any advice,please ? Thanks Alessandro

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XBMC for Fedora
by Rolf Fokkens 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi! Several people have contributed to this subject in the past: XBMC for fedora. So far however XBMC isn't available in rpmfusion or fedora repositories. Is there a specific reason (like licensing) for this? Anyhow, given the fact that there isn't an XBMC RPM in one of the mentioned repositories, I built it myself based on an RPM by Scott Harvanek. It's here: http://rolffokkens.dyndns.org/ It's running very stable on mij x86_64 Fedora 11 system, both music and video's run smoothly. Somehow however I can't play physical media like DVD's and CD's, as XBMC doesn't seem te be aware of them. Could be a libcdio-0.18 related problem. Cheers! Rolf P.S. I'm using Thunderbird, and don't know how to suppress the HTML formatting. I appologize.

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Disable "Personal File Sharing" prompt in Download folder
by Michael Cronenworth 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Starting with F12/Gnome 2.28 I have a light red box in nautilus only with the Download folder. It informs you that you can use Personal File Sharing with this folder. How do you remove this prompt? I do not have it on one system, but I do on another. Both systems were upgraded from F11 to F12. Grepping in gconf for blue, sharing, or download doesn't give any clues. Gnome's release notes are useless. Google is useless. Thanks, Michael

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F12 NFS Failures
by Dr J Austin 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Hi I have just completed a clean install of F12 and subsequent yum update on a client machine. NFS was used for the install - no problems !! I am using a fully updated Centos 5.4 nfs server When copying a large file (2.7GB) from the server to the F12 m/c a complete freeze of the F12 machine occurs. No mouse, keyboard, ssh login. Only hitting the Reset button gets it back. F12 is installed on the only disk on the machine which has several ext3 partitions. A fully updated F11 is on one of the partitions I have tried 1. Changing from NFS4 to NFS3 - Still locks up 2. scp the same file from the server to F12 no problem 3. md5sum on the file across the nfs mount - a read only? - F12 freezes 4. Booting the F11 partition and copying the same file - no problems 5. Tried playing with Defaultvers=4 in /etc/nfsmount.conf - still locks I have "googled" but not found anything useful so far My understanding is that NFS code is in the kernel - is that correct? Has anyone seen this or has any ideas about the next move Regards John

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