Fedora

How to avoid a restart after installing software which requires one (e.g. Oracle-xe)

There are many software, which needs a restart after installation. For me there were quite a few. One of the annoying ones is Oracle XE. After installing, if you don’t restart, you wont get the sqlplus command under your username. The workaround is , after installing oracle-xe, open a terminal and .. 1. stop oracle

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How to install x64 flash in linux

Since Adobe released a new version of its x64 bit flash player , I am going to install it replacing my existing 32 bit flash player. First, download the file from this link http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html. Now go to the download directory and right click on the file and select ‘Extract here’. Go into the folder to

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Google Chrome beta for Linux officially available

Google released the beta version of Chrome for Linux and Mac today. The packaged files for major distributions are availabe at http://www.google.com/chrome. Users who were already using the dev channel version can find the beta packaged seperately in synaptic . Trying to install the beta will prompt you to uninstall the unstable version though. Try

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Daylight savings and fedora 11

All those who are using Fedora 11 as their operating system, you can enable the NTP server on your system to avoid manually setting the clock on your pc every time the clocks go forward or backward. Go to system -> administration -> time & date -> network time protocol and enable it. Mine was

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Catalyst 9.10 brings back compiz in Fedora 11 & support for Ubuntu 9.10

When I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 on Fedora 11 , catalyst 9.9 stopped working and I got blank screens. I had to be content with the opensource graphics drivers which did not provide 3D acceleration in fedora 11 systems (surprisingly!) Now, after the release of catalyst 9.10 , I’m back using compiz and my favourite

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