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How to install Adobe AIR on Fedora 12
1. Pull up a console and su to root. [danesh@jackal ~]$ su – 2. Grab the latest vesion of Adobe AIR from Adobe’s download page. [root@jackal ~]# wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 3. Make the .bin file executable by using the chmod command. [root@jackal ~]# chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 4. Execute the .bin file. [root@jackal ~]# ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Follow the [...]
Install Google Chrome on Fedora 12
1. create the repo file. “vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo” and add the following lines into the file. [google] name=Google – i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 2. Do a “yum list google-chrome-*” to check if the google-chrome is available for install. [root@dexter ~]# yum list google-chrome-* ………. ……. google-chrome-beta.i386 5.0.342.9-43360 google google-chrome-unstable.i386 5.0.375.9-44625 [...]
How to install VirtualBox 3.1.2 on Fedora 12
Here’s a quick guide to install VirtualBox 3.1.2 on Fedora 12 1. Import Sun’s public key [dexter]# wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | rpm –import – 2. Download the Fedora repo file and save it into the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory [dexter]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [dexter]# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo [dexter]# yum clean all 3. Install VirtualBox 3.1.2 [dexter]# yum install [...]
How to enable presto in Fedora 11
Delta RPMs is a bandwidth saver. Instead of downloading full rpm files on updates, delta rpms (.drpm) hold only the changes in binary form. The size of the packages is now significantly reduced thus saving bandwidth. Once downloaded the drpm file get reconstructed to form the full package before they gets applied. On avg I [...]
How to install Adobe AIR on Fedora 11
1. Pull up a console and su as root. [danesh@jackal ~]$ su – 2. Install these packages first. [root@jackal ~]# yum -y install xterm gtk2-devel gnome-keyring libxml2-devel libxslt rpm-devel nss 3. Grab the latest vesion of Adobe AIR from Adobe’s download page. [root@jackal ~]# wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 4. Make the .bin file executable by using the [...]
