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Google Chrome extensions crashing in Fedora 15

posted on May 30, 2011 in fedora, HowTo with 2 Comments

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” [...]

RPM Fusion for Fedora 15

posted on May 26, 2011 in fedora, HowTo with 0 Comments

RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 is not published yet but thanks to Rajaseelan you can now get it. Read the HowTo

How to install Adobe AIR on Fedora 12

posted on April 28, 2010 in fedora, HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

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

posted on April 17, 2010 in fedora, google, HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

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

posted on January 12, 2010 in fedora, HowTo, Linux with 3 Comments

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 [...]

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