Gnome Tweak Tools & tar.xz, tar.bz
Good day all, I'm trying to add new themes and icons to F18 via the gnome tweak tool. Most of the themes I have no problem installing as they are all .zip extensions, however one such theme is only...
View ArticleHow to change from grubx64.efi to shim.efi?
Hi guys, I don't know the reason but since a few days, the command: Code: grub2-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi/ will generate a efiboot menuentry: Code: Boot0018* Fedora...
View ArticleMissing default gateway
I installed F18 and want to set up bridged networking for VMs. I read a few articles and the net results is you can't use Network Manager and bridged networks. Since this is a server I have no issues...
View ArticleCYBORG R.A.T.7 Mouse and Monitor Help
I recently installed Fedora 18 on to my desktop, on a new SSD to run along with windows. The most truoble I am having is with the R.A.T.7 Cyborg mouse, I have been browsing google, for awhile to find...
View ArticleSystem breakage: Command line error: no such option: -Q
I was using rpmreaper and `yum remove xxx` to remove some items I no longer use and broke my system. I cannot use yum anymore. I am new to Fedora so please be gentle. Code: sudo yum install htop...
View Article[SOLVED] How to install and run Snort and Nessus
Hi everyone! I have been trying to install and run Snort and Nessus, but nothing has worked. Can someone please help me with this problem? I really appreciate it!
View ArticleAdvice for third party repo
I'd like to package profile-sync-daemon for Fedora 18. Can someone recommend a third party repo that will accept such a package? Does Fedora have something similar to the Ubuntu PPA (personal package...
View ArticleCan't load display manager
F18 on an old R40 Originally did an XFCE install. Installed MATE. Got sick of trying to get lightdm to auto log in. removed lightdm after installing gdm gdm would not auto start. Had to log in and...
View ArticleNeed help with Python IDLE
I am on fedora 17 with GNOME 3.4.2 and have installed python's IDLE but to get to it I have to run, Code: idle in terminal every time i want to use it and was wondering if there is anyway I could...
View Articlekernel 3.7.7-201: missing /dev/disk/by-uuid entries; no /dev/disk/by-label
Hello, my recent kernel upgrade seems to have broken /dev/disk: This is on a UEFI/gpt system 1. No /dev/disk/by-uuid entry after partition 4 e.g. sda Five gpt partitions on sda; only 4 entries...
View ArticleLyx + Culmus (Compared to F17)
Hello Friends, Just recently I've installed F18 on a new system, x86_64. Adding Lyx (with tex-live) and culmus fonts packages to support Hebrew editing seem to fail. The output of pdflatex shows an...
View ArticleHappy with Lenovo W520, but have two (small) unsolved problems
Hell o everybody, I'm generally happy with my Lenovo W520, most things work exceptionally well but I do have two small problems I would like to resolve to make it even a better experience. 1. My...
View ArticleInstalled Fedora 18, now Win7 won't boot
Title pretty much says it all. I installed Fedora 18 into the empty space after my Win7 partition, now all I can boot is F18. According to gdisk, my partitions on /dev/sda look like this: Number Start...
View Article[SOLVED] Is yum plugin remove-with-leaves dangerous?
Hi, I'm trying to keep my packages under control, since I've just reinstalled Fedora afresh for F18 and it had gotten into a bit of a mess last time. I was hoping to use remove with leaves to help...
View ArticleIs OpenOffice really getting popular
Hi Friends, I love Linux and other open source software. I use Linux for a variety of day to day tasks namely surfing the net, burning CD/DVDs, listening to music and watching videos etc. But despite...
View ArticleWxWidget unicode=no
Hello, I downloaded a package (JSBSimCommander) which requires the WxWidget package with unicode=no, but the standard wxwidget (2.8.12) installed by yum (Fedora 17) does not support unicode=no. The...
View ArticleRelocation of system files / dirs - /tmp /var/log
I have just built my 2nd Fedora machine. The first is currently running Fedora 16 acting as a mail and web server for my personal domain whilst my 2nd and new Fedora 18 machine will eventually act as a...
View ArticleFedora 17 - 18 Fedup / Yum - invalid $releasever
All, not sure if anyone else has run into this or not, maybe someone has a fix... I am maintaining an upgrade path for a mythdora box I have been running for a while now, re-building once at Mythdora...
View ArticleAvoid "The child process exited normally with status 0."
Hello, I'm trying to get my gnome-terminal to launch the 'top' command at launch by checking the box labelled custom command and placing 'top' in it. problem is I cant use the terminal once i exit...
View Articlesystemd, nfs, automount
Heya guys, I'm trying to figure out why my systemd boot time has increased from just over 6 seconds to an extremely slow ~18 seconds. Now by boot time, I mean "time till I can type my password"....
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