I recently purchased a webcam for skype. I’m using the UVC driver to power the webcam on my openSUSE11 machine.
Getting the webcam up was simple with openSUSE.
Verify if the uvc package is available.
pandora:~ # zypper se uvc
Reading installed packages…

S | Name                 | Summary                             | Type
–+———————-+————————————-+———–
| luvcview             | WebCam viewer                       | package
| uvcvideo             | USB Video [...]

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Check is the Deluge package is available.
pandora:~ # zypper se deluge
Install Deluge
pandora:~ # zypper in deluge

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Install the cabextract package.
abooboo># zypper in cabextract
Download the msfont installer script for openSUSE 10.3.
abooboo># wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh
Assign execute permission and execute the script.
abooboo># chmod a+x fetchmsttfonts.sh
abooboo># ./fetchmsttfonts.sh
You have ms fonts now. The other simpler way to do this is to simply copy over the fonts you need from a Windows machine and use the fonts manager [...]

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rpm -qa –last will return all installed rpm packages with their installed time. The last installed packages will be at the top of the list.
rpm -qa –last | less is will return all installed packages with their install date. Less allows you to scroll through the results.
rpm -qa –last | tail -n [lines] will [...]

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I was playing a round with new software today which needed MySQL 5. My server’s running CentOS 4.6 which ships by default with MySQL 4.
The to upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4 is easy. There are 2 options you could use.
The first option would require you to remove all MySQL 4 packages by running,
># [...]

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