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Fedora – YUM broken, and Fix..

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A circular fail with a recent version of YUM – yum-3.4.3-119 – leads to a whole load of the following errors: http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates                                                            | 4.6 kB  00:00:00     http://mir01.syntis.net/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates                                                            | 3.4 kB  00:00:00     … Continue reading →

Compile HandBrake on Linux, the Easy Way – and Fedora RPMs..

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Handbrake is a very useful video conversion tool, and it runs on Linux as well! The latest released version (as of July 2013) is 0.9.9, and can be found here: http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php The compile is somewhat non-standard, and is definitely a good candidate for RTFM…! If you try to do it the ‘usual’ way, you will probably get … Continue reading →

Pi – Now a ‘Proper’ Fedora Version!

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If you run Fedora on your Raspberry Pi (as I have done since I first got mine, over a year ago…) you will be glad to know that an ‘optimised’ version of the distro is now available..  Pidora.. http://www.pidora.ca/ Interesting to see that – apparently – Red Hat had already trademarked the name….. I haven’t had a … Continue reading →

3.9-rc3 – NVIDIA and VMware OK..

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Installed Kernel 3.9-rc3 on the test system..   VMware 9.0.2, and NVIDIA 310.40 (main) and 313.26 (beta) all compile OK.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.9.0-rc3 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 12:21:27 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon.   March 19th, 2013. … Continue reading →

SmartDeblur, on Linux!

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SmartDeblur has received some exposure in the mainstream press recently, and as I do a lot of digital restoration of old slides and negatives, I wanted to get it to run on Linux, as well.   Should be no problem, as the app is written in QT4.. So..  Download the source from GitHub: https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads Then unpack the tarfile, … Continue reading →

Grub2 – Stop the Insanity!

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I am one of those people who compiles a lot of new kernels, and have become increasingly frustrated by the user-unfriendliness of grub2.. Now the latest version of grub2 has introduced – for reasons that I cannot fathom – two levels of menu, and relegated most of the multiple-choice kernel version boot options to the secondary menu … Continue reading →

APC – And now – Fedora Linux..

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After all the pioneering work done to get a compiled working version of the APC kernel by Mike Thompson from the Raspbian project, as described in a previous post, I now have Fedora Linux running on the APC. I had planned to be able to get Fedora 17 working, but the APC kernel (vintage 2010!) is just … Continue reading →

Serial Console – via UART, with Fedora 17 / ARM..

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In preparation for the (final!) arrival of the APC, I have been setting up a suitable serial console connection, via USB to a UART, and have tested it on the Raspberry Pi.. After remembering (from years ago..) that you have to connect TX to RX – and vice-versa – the serial console worked without a problem, but … Continue reading →

The (Minor) Curse of Bacula…

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Bacula is great for Linux – to – LTO tape backups, but the YUM updates can – at least on my system – sometimes leave it in an unusable state.. For some reason, the update tends to leave the libraries in /usr/lib64 in a mess, with some pointing to postgresql instead of mysql, and some still in … Continue reading →

Self-Compiled XMBC, on the Pi..

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Now that I have Fedora 17 running OK, I will try the XBMC stuff…    There doesn’t seem to be a complete ‘image’ available yet, so I have got the git repository code from OpenELEC, and (just for fun) am actually compiling it all on the Pi..    Seems to be (roughly) as quick to compile as an old … Continue reading →