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Box.net via WebDAV on Fedora 16

Danesh — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:24:52 +0000

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 davfs2Create your Box.net directory
# mkdir ~/Box.netCreate the davfs2 config directory. It’s in your home dir so it’s not system wide.
# mkdir ~/.davfs2Disable 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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How to install Android’s Roboto font in Fedora 16

Danesh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:16:36 +0000

I love the new Android Roboto font family and it looks good on my Fedora 16 install. Here’s how you can get it into your Fedora 16.

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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How to install Google Music Manager on Fedora 16

Danesh — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:28:28 +0000

I’ve been using Google’s Music locker / streaming service for awhile now. You get to upload 20,000 tracks and getting them on is a breeze with Google’s Music Manager. I’m running Fedora 16 now and here’s I got Google Music Manager running on it.

1. Get into your home downloads directory.
# cd ~/Downloads2. Download the Google Music Manager rpm.
64bit:
# wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm32bit:
# wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-musicmanager-beta_current_i386.rpm
3. Satisfy the dependencies. Install the qt-x11 package.
# sudo yum install qt-x114. Install the Google Music Manager package.
# sudo yum localinstall google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpm
Possible error; make sure you have qt-x11 installed.
[danesh@pandora ~]$ google-musicmanager /usr/bin/google-musicmanager: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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How to get Hard Disk Details on Linux

Danesh — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:27:51 +0000

Here’s a quick way to find out more about your hard disk. You can get the serial number, part number, firmware level, size and much more. Just see the sample below.
hdparm -I [device]
hdparm -I /dev/sda
[danesh@pandora Movies]$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: WDC WD2500JS-75NCB3 Serial Number: WD-WCANKF265386 Firmware Revision: 10.02E04 Standards: Supported: 7 6 5 4 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 488281250 Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 238418 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 250000 MBytes (250 GB) cache/buffer size = 8192 KBytes Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Queue depth: 32 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16 Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 128 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * Host Protected Area feature set * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * NOP cmd * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE Power-Up In Standby feature set * SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up SET_MAX security extension * Automatic Acoustic Management feature set * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Native Command Queueing (NCQ) * Host-initiated interface power management * Phy event counters DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization Device-initiated interface power management * Software settings preservation * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set * SCT Long Sector Access (AC1) * SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2) * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3) * SCT Features Control (AC4) * SCT Data Tables (AC5) unknown 206[12] (vendor specific) Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked frozen not expired: security count not supported: enhanced erase Checksum: correct
Hope it comes in handy for you. Know a better way? Please share

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Install Ubuntu Fonts on Fedora 16

Danesh — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:55:27 +0000

1. Let’s work from your Downloads folder.
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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How to install Flash 11 64-bit on Fedora 16

Danesh — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:54:04 +0000

Change into you home directory.
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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How to install Google Chrome on Fedora 16

Danesh — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:09:39 +0000

Fedora 16 just came out and here’s how to get Google Chrome on it.

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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How to install RpmForge in Fedora 15

Danesh — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:22:16 +0000

If you need rpmforge on your Fedora 15, here’s how.

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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How to install JDownloader in Fedora 15

Danesh — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:06:59 +0000

JDownloader is my favourite 1-Click-Hosters download manager. Installing it on Fedora is easy. Here’s how,

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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Google Chrome extensions crashing in Fedora 15

Danesh — Mon, 30 May 2011 03:43:53 +0000

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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