The Danesh Project » fedora http://thedaneshproject.com Knowledge bling's the finer things in life. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:25:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Box.net via WebDAV on Fedora 16 http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/box-net-via-webdav-on-fedora-16/ http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/box-net-via-webdav-on-fedora-16/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:24:52 +0000 Danesh http://thedaneshproject.com/?p=2355
I was lucky enough to get a free 50GB box.net account. 50GB is alot!. However, the catch, individual files can’t exceed 100mb each. lol

I mainly use my box.net to hold eBooks for later access on my Laptop and Android devices.

There is no free client for Linux so I use WebDAV instead. It’s slower but it works.

Start by installing davfs2.
# sudo yum install davfs2
Create your Box.net directory
# mkdir ~/Box.net
Create the davfs2 config directory. It’s in your home dir so it’s not system wide.
# mkdir ~/.davfs2
Disable locking. Causes issues sometimes.
# cd ~/.davfs2
# echo "use_locks 0" > davfs2.conf
Create a secret file to hold your box.net login details. Make sure to “chmod 600 the file”
# echo "https://www.box.net/dav [you box.net login] [your box.net password]" > secrets
# chmod 600 secrets
Backup and update your /etc/fstab file to include your box.net directory.
# cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.ori
# echo "https://www.box.net/dav /home/danesh/Box.net davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
Mount and you should be able to list ~/Box.net
# mount ~/Box.net
# ls -l ~/Box.net

This is the hard way to do this. I will post a simpler method using Nautilus in a future post.

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1. Change to root user
# su -
2. Create the the roboto directory
# cd /usr/share/fonts/
# mkdir roboto
# cd roboto
3. Download the roboto font and install it.
# wget http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/roboto -O roboto.zip
# unzip roboto.zip
# rm roboto.zip
# fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/roboto/

Enjoy your new Roboto fonts!

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cd ~/Downloads
2. Download the Ubuntu Fonts package from Ubuntu.
wget http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip
3. Extra the downloaded zip file.
unzip ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip
4. Rename the extracted directory. (Not a must)
mv ubuntu-font-family-0.80 ubuntu-font-family
5. Copy the extracted directory to the system shared fonts directory.
su -c 'cp -rv ubuntu-font-family /usr/share/fonts/'
6. Set the permissions for the directory you just moved.
su -c 'chmod 755 /usr/share/fonts/ubuntu-font-family'
7. Scan and build the fonts cache files for the new Ubuntu files.
cd /usr/share/fonts
su -c ‘fc-cache ubuntu-font-family’

That’s it, you should now be able to use the Ubuntu fonts in your applications and documents.

Here’s a video of the process.
How To install Ubuntu Fonts on Fedora 16

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cd ~
Download the official Adobe repository package rpm. This rpm will create the repository file for us.
sudo wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Install the rpm file.
sudo rpm -ivh adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Import the repository GPG key.
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Update you local yum repositories.
sudo yum update
Install the 64 bit Flash Plugin
sudo yum -y install flash-plugin

Check if the install was successful. In Firefox, go to “about:plugins” in the address bar and look for “Shockwave Flash”. If installed you will see;

File: libflashplayer.so
Version: Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1

Quick Step: If you just want to install the Flash Plugin and not bother about the repo you can download the installer directly and install Flash.

cd ~
sudo wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.0.1.152/flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.x86_64.rpm

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Start by creating a repository file for Google called google.repo and place it in /etc/yum.repos.d/ .

sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo

Add the lines below into the repository file. google.repo

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Update yum,
sudo yum update

Search for Google Chrome,
sudo yum search google-chrome

Install Google Chrome Stable
sudo yum install google-chrome-stable

If you prefer the beta like me then run,
sudo yum install google-chrome-beta

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wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm

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1. Fire up a terminal
2.wget http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh
3.chmod +x jd.sh
4../jd.sh
5. Wait till the install completes and you can enjoy JDownloader.
6. To start JDownloader moving forward simply run “./jd.sh”

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Many have been complaining of their chrome extensions crashing in Fedora 15. In my case it was LastPass and Xmarks.

The issue is caused by SELinux and the quick fix is to disable SELinux. Here’s how you get it done;

1. Fire up a terminal

2. cd to /etc/selinux/

3. vi the “config” file.

4. Change “SELINUX=enforcing” to “SELINUX=disabled”

5. Reboot, launch Chrome and your extensions should be working fine.

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[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 screens and your install’s complete.

NOTE:

If you get errors when trying to run AIR apps try the below;

1. delete /etc/opt/adobe/……../crypt/

2. if  Tweetdeck fails to launch, make sure kwallet is running.

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