08 Feb

Fedora 16 - Colorgcc howto

Posted by admin in color-gcc, colorgcc, f16, Fedora 16

To install colorgcc on Fedora 16, do the following assuming perl is installed:

sudo yum install colorgcc -y
 
wget search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RR/RRA/Term-ANSIColor-3.01.tar.gz
tar-xzvf Term-ANSIColor-3.01.tar.gz
cd Term-ANSIColor-3.01/
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make test
sudo make install

Download the config file from here and move it to:

wget pacificsimplicity.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/colorgccrc.txt
mv colorgccrc.txt to ~/.colorgccrc 

Make this directory and the following symlink:

mkdir ~/home/bin
cd ~/home/bin

29 Nov

Fedora 16 issues/fix on K8 AMD 4400+ A8NE mobo

Posted by admin in Fedora 16

For some reason if you are having boot issues running Fedora 16 on the old AMD 939 4400+ platform combined with an ASUS A8NE motherboard, I had to modify my grub bootloader defaults to the following:

26 Nov

Compiling Fedora 16 Kernel

Posted by admin in compile, Fedora 16, kernel

Here in this post, I will explain how to compile and install Linux Kernel 3.1.1 in Fedora 16.

To compile Linux Kernel the following are required to be installed.

gcc latest version,
ncurses development package
and system packages should be up-to date

To install the dependencies run the following commands:

For gcc

$ sudo yum install gcc

For ncurses development package

$ sudo yum install ncurses-devel

After installing the above

22 Nov

Ubuntu One For Fedora 16 Howto

Posted by admin in f16, Fedora 16, Ubuntu One

Ubuntu One Sync & 5GB storage free - Please and thank you using Fedora 16!!

Install the following:

sudo yum install imake python-twisted python-inotify python-oauth protobuf-python gnome-settings-daemon-devel nautilus-devel python-distutils-extra protobuf protobuf-compiler PyQt4 PyQt4-devel wget

Get the following packages:

wget http://launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/trunk/2.0.0/+download/ubuntuone-cl...

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