colorgcc – Color your compiler output on Fedora

Lets start with installing colorgcc :

sudo yum install colorgcc

Now once that is done, you will need to ensure that the call to g++, gcc and others that you want to use, you will need to create a link in the “~/bin” directory, like so:

for i in g++ gcc c++ cc 
do
    ln -s $(which colorgcc) ~/bin/$i
done

The one liner above will create the links for colorgcc as **** your favourite compiler in your homedir. Don’t forget to add the bin diretory to your PATH variable:

Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.

CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂

export FIGNORE=CVS:~:.o:.svn
bind 'set match-hidden-files off'

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Ubuntu setup – post installation script

If you have done a new installation of Ubuntu or Fedora, then yuou know you have to search all kind of blogs to find out what all to install. So, here is a easier way to do that. Just run this script, it will install some applications which are mostly a “MUST” for all the installations. And the list of applications that are installed are :

convert word document to html

First install the required package:

sudo yum install wv

Description:

Description : Wv is a program that understands the Microsoft Word 6/7/8/9

binary file format and is able to convert Word

documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser.

And here is the list of the programs that this utility provides:

/usr/bin/wvAbw
/usr/bin/wvCleanLatex
/usr/bin/wvConvert
/usr/bin/wvDVI
/usr/bin/wvDocBook
/usr/bin/wvHtml
/usr/bin/wvLatex
/usr/bin/wvMime
/usr/bin/wvPDF
/usr/bin/wvPS
/usr/bin/wvRTF
/usr/bin/wvSummary
/usr/bin/wvText
/usr/bin/wvVersion
/usr/bin/wvWare
/usr/bin/wvWml

So, if you want to convert a doc file to html just do:

tora installation on Fedora 17.

Here are the previous links on Tora:

Tora on F16

Tora on Fedora

And if you are interested in installing from source then you can always use this link:
http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/2012/02/06/tora-fedora-16-mysql-oracle/

And if you are interested in just installing it then you can always do:

rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc17.i686.rpm"

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rpmconf – Tool to handle rpmsave and rpmnew files

Install the utility:

sudo yum install rpmconf

Description:

Description : This tool search for .rpmnew, .rpmsave and .rpmorig files and ask you what to do

with them:

Keep current version, place back old version, watch the diff or merge.

And finally run the utility:

sudo rpmconf -a

and if there is a conflict or rpmsave or rpmnew file, then you will see something like this:

symlinks -delete all invalid soft links in Linux/Fedora

First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed :

sudo yum install symlinks

and here is the description:

Description : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.

Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks

which point to nonexistent files.  Symlinks can also automatically

convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.

Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining

symlinks on your system.

and the help for the same: