2 comments Plenty of resources explain how to install unrar support in Fedora, but what about when you need to create rar files, instead of merely extracting them?
Rar has licensing issues which is why it isn’t available in standard Fedora repositories. The package ‘Unrar’ is available in rpmfusion repositories, but to get rar compression support you can install one of these two non-Free packages:
rar-3.8.0-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm… Read the rest
0 comments Secure Share is a very interesting project that aims to replace existing social networks with a far, far more secure platform upon which developers can build new distributes apps and services. Think of it a bit like a new version of Bit Torrent with an easy API for sending messages, relationships, streams, and status updates, and a prototype desktop client for bringing these together in a social networking interface.… Read the rest
1 comment These instructions will allow you to view web pages that are served by your local web development server from within a virtual machine.
Example scenario: you run a local web server on Fedora for development, and you want to test your local site pages from within another operating system which is running in a virtual machine, e.g.… Read the rest
2 comments GTimeLog is a simple and effective time tracking application for GNU/Linux. It is the preferred tool of top FSFE staff. It is not currently available in official Fedora repositories however, so in order to use it you must manually install it using Python.… Read the rest
0 comments The following procedure allows you to run your own webserver on Fedora 16, so that you can develop web scripts and applications and test them locally without an Internet connection. I assume that you’re using Gnome 3. Run the stated commands in a terminal – accessible via alt+F2, enter: gnome-terminal [press enter]
Login as root:
su
Install the Apache webserver:
yum install httpd
Configure Apache to handle requests to your local website:
nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf… Read the rest
