repotrack and repoquery -commands to resolve dependencies.

2014-12-18 1 min read Fedora

To get all the depencies of a package, you can try:

repoquery -a --requires --resolve 

Example output:
glibc-0:2.20-5.fc21.i686
bash-0:4.3.30-2.fc21.x86_64
chkconfig-0:1.3.63-1.fc21.x86_64
glibc-0:2.20-5.fc21.x86_64
openssl-libs-1:1.0.1j-1.fc21.x86_64

and then to query in nice tree format, you can use :

repoquery -a --tree-requires PACKAGE_NAME

And finally use that with repotrack:

repotrack -a x86_64 -p . $(repoquery --qf=%{name} -g --list --grouppkgs=all 'Office Suite and Productivity' |tr '\n' ' '
)

Now for the fun part, why use all the above when you can simply use:
yumdownloader --resolve 

So, if you have reached this line then you don't need repotrack/repoquery, simply use yumdownloader :)

gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.

2010-08-11 2 min read Fedora GNOME Photo

First install the gphotoframe application with the command :

sudo yum install gphotoframe

and if you want gnome-screensaver compatibility then install the package gphotoframe-gss also.

Gnome Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Desktop. Let&#8217;s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal:

Here is what you will see :

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1880" title="Screenshot-gphotoframe" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe-300x227.png" alt="Screenshot-gphotoframe" width="300" height="227" />

Don&#8217;t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">right click on the window and go to preferences:

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importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)

2010-07-25 1 min read Fedora Linux

If you were using outlook and moved to some other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client" title="Email client" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client">mail client then you know the pain of moving the mails from outlook mail from outlook to any other client.

If you are using evolution on <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora, then you are in luck. Just install the plug-in and select the file to import as simple as that.

sudo yum install evolution-pst

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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

2010-07-23 1 min read Fedora Linux

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

  • display Linux skills
  • install popular software
  • change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
  • display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
  • enable some third party repositories#
  • clean apt/yum cache#
  • backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only

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Adding border to images.

2010-07-18 1 min read Photo

A very simple script to add border to images :
**
**

*for i in .jpg; do montage -geometry 720×576 -background black -quality 100 $i conv-$i; done


This is one line that you can run the directory containing all your images and all the files with extension of &#8221;jpg&#8221; will be assumed to be images and the command run on them to add the border. The border is black in color and quality of the border is 100%.

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IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only

2010-06-15 2 min read Linux

The other day, I was trying to fix something in my firefox and found that the way to go was to login to IRC and go to the mozilla <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/server" title="Server (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29">server and join #firefox.

Though IRC is quite native to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux, I did not know where to start. So, I noted down the list of steps that need to be done to get you started. (Note this may not be new to most of you).

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How To Install Ailurus On Fedora

2010-06-05 2 min read Fedora

For those who have not yet heard about ailurus:

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What is Ailurus?

Ailurus is cross-Linux-<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">distribution <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What does Ailurus hope to do?

Ailurus hopes to reduce the difficulty which newcomers encounter when they are using Linux.

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