bad autoconf behavior on Fedora Core 14
by Colin McCabe
I encountered some bad autoconf behavior on Fedora Core 14.
Specifically, I was running ./configure .
That script did a test for g++.
g++ was not installed.
However, because of the new fallback behavior, which prints "Install
package 'gcc-c++' to provide command 'g++'? [N/y]" when an unknown
command is entered, ./configure did not detect the problem. Only later
did it realize that g++ was not installed.
Here is what I think might be a problem:
[cmccabe@highcastle ceph]$ g++
bash: g++: command not found...
Install package 'gcc-c++' to provide command 'g++'? [N/y]
[cmccabe@highcastle ceph]$ echo $?
0
cheers,
Colin McCabe
13 years, 2 months
Evolution and GPG groups
by Greg Woods
I have a group declared in my gpg.conf file. I would like to be able to
send mail to this group and have it encrypted with each member of the
group's public key. I know Thunderbird can do this but I have not yet
figured out how to do it in Evolution despite a lot of Googling and
reading the Evolution help files. I have GPG encryption working for the
case where I am sending to one address where I have the public key on my
keyring; now I want to send to an alias and have it encrypt for each
member of the alias. Is there a way to set that up in Evolution? I am
talking about gpg.conf configurations like this:
group 0x55555555=0xXXXXXXXX
group 0x55555555=0xYYYYYYYY
etc.
and I want to be able to send to an address, and have it encrypt with
both 0xXXXXXXXX and 0xYYYYYYYYYY. How do I map an address to GPG group
0x55555555?
--Greg
13 years, 2 months
putting something into single quotes in a bash script
by Peter G.
What is the difference in a bash script when one places something between
single quotes:
- using the apostrophe, '
- using the accent grave, `
?
Eg.,
ps -fu 'whoami'
ps -fu `whoami`
They produce entirely different results.
There are many other places where one might wish to put a command, variable,
etc., into single quotes, so, which type of single quote sahould be used and
what is the diffence between the two?
13 years, 2 months
3D in Fedora
by kellyremo
When i was using Debian on my PC, i just:
apt-get install -y mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-dri
and then...the 3D games, like torcs didn't lag anymore.
Question: Are there any "mesa" -""like"" packages in Fedora, that i can install, so that e.g.: torcs will not lag after installing it?
Thank you
13 years, 2 months
Recommendations: Simple Audio Recorder
by Patrick Bartek
Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign language practice. Commandline type okay. Will be using a Skype-type headset with integrated microphone--two separate plugs. Have found many audio recording studio programs, but don't need all that sophistication. Tried a couple, anyway, but neither recognized the mike. And, of course, recorded only silence.
Any suggestions?
B
Fedora12-64bit
13 years, 2 months
CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
I know Fedora try to be more user friendly, and the website design that points
to the various download options reflects that. But I think one signficant thing
is missing: the CHECKSUM file is not easily accesible. How can a novice user
know how to check that his/her download is correct and not corrupted ?
Following the link to get fedora from the main page, I ended on this page:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats
Since I want to get the full DVD install, I follow the link to:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86...
x86_64-DVD.iso
That goes to a page that tells me that the download would start shortly (and
it did), but no information about how to check the correctness of the
downloaded file.
There's this box that says: "What should I do with this ISO file?" and a link
to instruction. The second page on the instruction ask to "Verify the
download", but again, no link to point to the CHECKSUM, or how to even verify
the download.
Sure, I can figure out just fine that I can browse the download directory
manually, get the CHECKSUM, and verify it with 'sha256sum' utility. But how
about Aunt Tillie ? How about people who uses Windows to download and may not
have the utility handy ? should there be at least a link to the CHECKSUM file,
or even just display the hash there on the download page, and a quick
instruction on how to check the download ?
Thanks
--
AC
13 years, 2 months
fc 11 evolution Error while storing folder inbox
by Tony Foster
"Error while storing folder inbox
Summary and folder mismatch even after a sync"
I am getting an error in Evolution mail
this is in FC11 but I thought I would ask if anyone has seen it or their
is a way around it.
Looks like I need to rebuild the database but I do not see a tool for
that.
tf
--
Tony Foster
email = Tony_Foster(a)surewest.net
Remember Ignorance can be fixed
Stupid is forever
13 years, 2 months
Re: Some thoughts on Audacious in Fedora
by Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:30:14 -0500, Digimer wrote:
> > Audacious refuses to load or play MP3s for me since a recent update
> > (Fedora 14 x86_64). I'm guessing this is the kind of problem you are
> > talking about?
Yes. The updated -freeworld plugin packages are in linked within the
rpmfusion bugzilla, but have not been pushed to the repos yet.
> I installed the audacious-related RPMs from your repo, but MP3s still
> fail to play with the decoder error.
Sure. You've misunderstood the purpose of the 2.5 repo. It is not
expected to "fix" the MP3 problem with Audacious 2.4.3 in Fedora 14.
It cannot fix it, since it cannot include MP3 and other -freeworld plugins.
13 years, 2 months
