<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <![CDATA[repotrack and repoquery -commands to resolve dependencies.]]> <![CDATA[/2014/12/18/repotrack-repoquery-commands-resolve-dependencies/]]> 1418864788 <![CDATA[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 :)]]> <![CDATA[gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/08/11/gphotoframe-free-digital-photo-frame-desk/]]> 1281494761 <![CDATA[ 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 &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;GNOME&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gnome.org/&quot;&gt;GNOME Desktop. Let&amp;#8217;s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal: Here is what you will see : &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-medium wp-image-1880&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot-gphotoframe&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe-300x227.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot-gphotoframe&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;227&quot; /&gt; Don&amp;#8217;t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;Mouse (computing)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29&quot;&gt;right click on the window and go to preferences: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Photo-Frame-Preferences.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-medium wp-image-1881&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot-Photo Frame Preferences&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Photo-Frame-Preferences-300x232.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot-Photo Frame Preferences&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;232&quot; /&gt; Go to Photos section and select the Photos tab. Here you can select the source for the gphotoframe gadget. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Photo-Source.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1890&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot-Photo Source&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Photo-Source.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot-Photo Source&quot; width=&quot;267&quot; height=&quot;228&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Photo-Source-1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1892&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot-Photo Source-1&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-Photo-Source-1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot-Photo Source-1&quot; width=&quot;267&quot; height=&quot;228&quot; /&gt; Select the type of source and other parameters that might be necessary based on your type of source. Once done, click on ok and you are done. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe-1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-medium wp-image-1893&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot-gphotoframe-1&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-gphotoframe-1-300x227.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot-gphotoframe-1&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;227&quot; /&gt; Hope you like it 🙂&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/29/a-requested-linux-theming-tutorial/&quot;&gt;A requested Linux theming tutorial (ghacks.net) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/whatever-you-gnome-do-dont-be-long.html&quot;&gt;whatever you (gnome) do, don&amp;#8217;t be long. (omgubuntu.co.uk) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shermann.name/2010/07/re-red-hat-canonical-and-gnome.html&quot;&gt;Stephan Hermann: Re: Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME contributions (shermann.name) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/gnome_delay/&quot;&gt;Next Gnome delayed until 2011 (go.theregister.com) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; float: right;&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_e14.png&quot; alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[importing outlook pst files in evolution in Fedora 13 ( Goddard)]]> <![CDATA[/2010/07/25/importing-outlook-pst-files/]]> 1280029989 <![CDATA[ If you were using outlook and moved to some other &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client&quot; title=&quot;Email client&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client&quot;&gt;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 &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/fedora&quot; title=&quot;Fedora&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot;&gt;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 Well, can it get simpler than that and a post shorter than this 🙂&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geek.co.il/wp/2010/05/11/the-sorry-state-of-mail-user-agents&quot;&gt;The sorry state of mail user agents (geek.co.il) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prweb.com/releases/outlook-export-wizard/pst-extractor/prweb3718454.htm&quot;&gt;Outlook Export Wizard – a New Powerful Data Extraction Tool for PST Files (prweb.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/fedora_13_beta/&quot;&gt;Fedora tempts fate with Apollo 13 beta (go.theregister.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100511005637/en&quot;&gt;The Fedora Project Names Recipient of 2010 Fedora Scholarship (eon.businesswire.com) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/3853a667-4bc1-4dcf-be8c-7058f5cd79c0/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b84.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials]]> <![CDATA[/2010/07/23/how-to-install-ailurus-10-05-on-fedora-howtoforge-linux-howtos-and-tutorials-2/]]> 1279857871 <![CDATA[ For those of you who don&amp;#8217;t know about ailurus: Ailurus is cross-&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;Linux distribution&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution&quot;&gt;Linux-distribution &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;GNU General Public License&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License&quot;&gt;GPL &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;Computer software&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software&quot;&gt;software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers. And the features include: Ailurus can … display Linux skills install popular software change &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;GNOME&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gnome.org/&quot;&gt;GNOME settings display &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;Hardware&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware&quot;&gt;hardware information enable some third party repositories# clean apt/yum cache# backup and recover apt/yum status# the features marked with &amp;#8221;#&amp;#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only and finally the tutorial: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-ailurus-10.05-on-fedora&quot;&gt;http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-ailurus-10.05-on-fedora&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://techrights.org/2010/07/05/akademy-2010-start/&quot;&gt;Links 05/7/2010: Compiz 0.9.0, Akademy 2010 (techrights.org) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2081&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #201 (fridge.ubuntu.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/14/installing-applications-in-linux-with-a-double-click/&quot;&gt;Installing applications in Linux with a double click (ghacks.net) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/17/2136237/Damn-Vulnerable-Linux-mdash-Most-Vulnerable-Linux-Ever&quot;&gt;Damn Vulnerable Linux – Most Vulnerable Linux Ever (linux.slashdot.org) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; href=&quot;http://www.zemanta.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none; float: right;&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_e4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Enhanced by Zemanta&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[Adding border to images.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/07/18/adding-border-to-images/]]> 1279460332 <![CDATA[ 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 &amp;#8221;jpg&amp;#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%. The magic used here is montage command that is available in package : ImageMagick If you do not have this package installed and use yum package manager then just run the command: yum install ImageMagick There are quite a lot of other options available with montage command that you can see in the man page or with –help Example: Original Image: &lt;a href=&quot;http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dscf5768.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-medium wp-image-403&quot; title=&quot;My, My wife and Kid&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dscf5768-300x225.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My, My wife and Kid&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; /&gt; Image with Border: &lt;a href=&quot;http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bor_dscf5768.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-medium wp-image-404&quot; title=&quot;My, My wife and Kid with border&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/bor_dscf5768-300x240.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My, My wife and Kid with border&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; /&gt; [ad#ad-1] ]]> <![CDATA[IRC on Linux de-mystified for new users only]]> <![CDATA[/2010/06/15/irc-linux-demystified-users/]]> 1276611617 <![CDATA[ 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 &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/server&quot; title=&quot;Server (computing)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29&quot;&gt;server and join #firefox. Though IRC is quite native to &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/linux&quot; title=&quot;Linux&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux&quot;&gt;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). First install a &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/internet_relay_chat&quot; title=&quot;Internet Relay Chat&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat&quot;&gt;IRC client like &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/x-chat&quot; title=&quot;XChat&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.xchat.org/&quot;&gt;xchat-gnome. To do that sudo yum install xchat-gnome Once that is done, just fire up your xchat-gnome. you might have to enter some details for the first time 🙂 If you want to join a server not listed in the list, then you can add the server: Go to Edit -&gt; Preference -&gt; Network -&gt; Add and add the server. Note: If you are running squid and getting an error for being behind open proxy then you should deny all hosts and allow just your intranet or just your host 🙂 Related articles by Zemanta Using the OMG! Ubuntu! IRC Channel &#8211; How to join in the fun (omgubuntu.co.uk) I love it when a Linux or Mac balloon gets busted (winextra.com) Harald Sitter: Fluffy @ LinuxTag (apachelog.wordpress.com) Robert Wall: Empathy as Ubuntu\&#8217;s IRC client (rww.dreamwidth.org) ]]> <![CDATA[How To Install Ailurus On Fedora]]> <![CDATA[/2010/06/05/how-to-install-ailurus-10-05-on-fedora-howtoforge-linux-howtos-and-tutorials/]]> 1275703714 <![CDATA[ For those who have not yet heard about ailurus: &lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; height=&quot;24&quot; /&gt;What is Ailurus? Ailurus is cross-Linux-&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution&quot; title=&quot;Linux distribution&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution&quot;&gt;distribution &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license&quot; title=&quot;GNU General Public License&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License&quot;&gt;GPL &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software&quot; title=&quot;Computer software&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software&quot;&gt;software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers. &lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; height=&quot;24&quot; /&gt;What does Ailurus hope to do? Ailurus hopes to reduce the difficulty which newcomers encounter when they are using Linux. Ailurus hopes to promote popular &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/open_source&quot; title=&quot;Open Source&quot; rel=&quot;wikinvest&quot; href=&quot;http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Open_Source&quot;&gt;open-source software. Ailurus hopes to promote open-source software which is elegant but has not entered official &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/software_repository&quot; title=&quot;Software repository&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_repository&quot;&gt;repository. &lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; height=&quot;24&quot; /&gt;What can Ailurus do? Ailurus can … display Linux skills install popular software change &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/gnome&quot; title=&quot;GNOME&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gnome.org/&quot;&gt;GNOME settings display &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/hardware&quot; title=&quot;Hardware&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware&quot;&gt;hardware information enable some third party repositories# clean apt/yum cache# backup and recover apt/yum status# the features marked with &amp;#8221;#&amp;#8221; support Ubuntu/&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/fedora&quot; title=&quot;Fedora&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot;&gt;Fedora only You can go &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/ailurus/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here to get more details. Now here is a link to installing it on Fedora. For those of you who don&amp;#8217;t need to know how to install a package, you should still visit the link to get details on how to install the ailurus plugin to allow installing &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/software_licensing&quot; title=&quot;Software license&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license&quot;&gt;non free softwares on Fedora 🙂 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-ailurus-10.05-on-fedora&quot;&gt;http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-ailurus-10.05-on-fedora If you would not want to keep checking for the updates then you can add the ailurus repo and enable it so that as soon as a new version is available, it is updated when you run your regular updates. Here is what is required : [ailurus] name=Ailurus Experimental Release baseurl=http://homerxing.fedorapeople.org/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 Put this in a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d and you are done….&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technology.globalthoughtz.com/index.php/fedora-community-released-fedora-13009/&quot;&gt;Fedora Community Released Fedora 13 (technology.globalthoughtz.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/05/fedora-13-released-with-open-3d-drivers-and-python-3-stack.ars&quot;&gt;Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack (arstechnica.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/dropbox-skype-adobe-air-codecs-working-meego-os-netbook/&quot;&gt;How To Get Dropbox, Skype, Adobe Air &amp; Codecs Working on Meego (Netbook OS) (makeuseof.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20100525006337/en&quot;&gt;Fedora 13 Propels Open Source Innovation (eon.businesswire.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-free-linux-distributions-for-desktop-computing-in-2010/&quot;&gt;Top 5 Free Linux Distributions for Desktop Computing in 2010 (taragana.com) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/a6d44ea0-6109-44e2-91f7-84c0008854c1/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b97.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[Logwatch for Linux Systems.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/06/02/logwatch-for-linux-systems/]]> 1275443616 <![CDATA[On my personal &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/client&quot; title=&quot;Client (computing)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29&quot;&gt;desktop at home, I like to see the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/statistics&quot; title=&quot;Statistics&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics&quot;&gt;statistics at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/sudo&quot; title=&quot;Sudo&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sudo.ws/&quot;&gt;sudo and other such details like &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/kernel&quot; title=&quot;Kernel (computing)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29&quot;&gt;kernel errors. Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/fedora&quot; title=&quot;Fedora&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot;&gt;Fedora &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/installation&quot; title=&quot;Installation (computer programs)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29&quot;&gt;installation so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different. First install logwatch using 🙂 yum install logwatch and you are done. If you need to do more configuration and want to see something different in the mail that is sent( BTW sendmail is assumed to be default &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/e-mail_client&quot; title=&quot;Email client&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client&quot;&gt;mail client), the keep reading. First open the file /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf The contents for my distro is just one line 🙂 # Local configuration options go here (defaults are in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf) So, open the file /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.confbr I will highlight the important lines in the file here: LogDir = /var/log — This is the directory for all the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/data_logger&quot; title=&quot;Data logger&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_logger&quot;&gt;log files MailTo = root — Whom should the mail be sent to Print = If this is set to true then there will be no mail sent and the output will be displayed on the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/standard_streams&quot; title=&quot;Standard streams&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams&quot;&gt;stdout. Detail = The level of details you want to see in the mail or the output on screen. Thats pretty much it.. If you want to further modify the details in the mail you can configure the services. For more advanced usage you can even go to &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: agency;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(204, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services and configure the individual scripts.&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/06/02/logwatch-for-linux-systems/&quot;&gt;Logwatch for Linux Systems. (amit-agarwal.co.in) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2010/03/29/monitoring-a-log-file&quot;&gt;Monitoring a Log File (scoutapp.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/anton_chuvakin/logs-cant-hate-them-wont-love-them-brief-log-management-class-by-anton-chuvakin&quot;&gt;Logs: Can&amp;#8217;t Hate Them, Won&amp;#8217;t Love Them: Brief Log Management Class by Anton Chuvakin (slideshare.net) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/05/20/startup-animation-theme-fedora-12-onwards/&quot;&gt;Startup animation and theme for Fedora 12 onwards. (amit-agarwal.co.in) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/03/09/mount-and-unmountumount-imagesiso-img-from-nautilus-fixed-not-mounting-in-fedora/&quot;&gt;Mount and unmount/umount images(iso/img) from nautilus (Fixed not mounting in Fedora) (amit-agarwal.co.in) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/6a7b59d3-8ca1-4798-afbd-7636005868ac/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[Upgrade to Fedora 13 from your existing version using yum.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/04/21/upgrade-fedora-13-existing-version-yum/]]> 1271864826 <![CDATA[ Well. this time it seems to be very simple : yum –releasever=13 upgrade update 22/April/2010: The key file will not be there so there are two options for you in this case: Install the following rpms from the downloaded rpms with &amp;#8221;yum –nogpg localinstall&amp;#8221; a) fedora-release b) fedora-release-notes Run the whole upgrade with –nogpg option. Issue observed after the upgrade: The new kernel was not added in the grub menu and I had to manually add the below entry in the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_grub&quot; title=&quot;GNU GRUB&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/&quot;&gt;menu.lst file: title &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/fedora&quot; title=&quot;Fedora&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot;&gt;Fedora (2.6.33.1-24.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.1-24.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=f832d6ce-dad3-4af9-9ef1-aac950f8284c rhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/init&quot; title=&quot;Init&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init&quot;&gt;init=/sbin/bootchartd Because of this I was not able to start the X server until I restarted the system with the entry in place and selecting this in the GRUB menu.&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-shedding-indie-status-is-a-good-thing&quot;&gt;Linux Shedding Indie Status is a Good Thing (ostatic.com) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/46a0147d-93ca-4ebf-bc6f-db9c5841bad7/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b79.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[Packagekit Error]]> <![CDATA[/2010/02/04/packagekit-error/]]> 1265299116 <![CDATA[ With the latest update on my Fedora 10(F10) I started getting this error when ever I wanted to use the gnome package kit (I was able to use yum though): failed to get a TID: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface &amp;#8221;org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction&amp;#8221; member &amp;#8221;SetLocale&amp;#8221; error name &amp;#8221;(unset)&amp;#8221; destination &amp;#8221;org.freedesktop.PackageKit&amp;#8221;) (0) I searched couple of forums but did not find any good resource on what was happening. Finally I decided to rollback Packagekit and dbus. And Yahoooooooooooo, it started working again. So here&amp;#8217;s what I did to get my system back rpm -e –nodeps dbus* *package* yum –disablerepo=updates install gnome-packagekit dbus dbus-libs ]]> <![CDATA[GoOo released new version of Open Office.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/01/11/gooo-released-new-version-of-open-office/]]> 1263227599 <![CDATA[ GoOo repository for Fedora at http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/ has released the new version of GoOo packages. ]]> <![CDATA[query and downgrade selected packages based on version or repository]]> <![CDATA[/2009/12/24/query-and-downgrade-selected-packages-based-on-version-or-repository/]]> 1261640231 <![CDATA[ If you have worked on rpm based distro then you know how difficult it is to downgrade packages. And unluckily I upgraded some packages to fc12 and was still on FC11. Completely my mistake while doing some R&amp;D. Anyway to downgrade I had to device some mechanism and here it is: rpm -qa –qf &amp;#8221;%-30{NAME}%-20{RELEASE}\n&amp;#8221; |grep fc12 |awk '{print $1}&amp;#8217;|tr &amp;#8217;\n&amp;#8217; &amp;#8217; &amp;#8217; &gt;downgrade yum downgrade `cat downgrade` ]]> <![CDATA[internal error from PackageKit — packagekit Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>]]> <![CDATA[/2009/11/25/internal-error-from-packagekit-packagekit-error-type/]]> 1259166318 <![CDATA[ If you get the below error then there is a bug files &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476352&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here. Error Type: Error Value: &amp;#8217;NoneType&amp;#8217; object is unsubscriptable File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2280, in main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2277, in main backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 600, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 526, in dispatch_command self.refresh_cache() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1130, in refresh_cache self.yumbase.repos.populateSack(which=[repo.id], mdtype=&amp;#8217;metadata&amp;#8217;, cacheonly=1) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 223, in populateSack self.doSetup() File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 71, in doSetup self.ayum.plugins.run(&amp;#8217;postreposetup&amp;#8217;) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py, line 178, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File : /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rpm-warm-cache.py, line 31, in postreposetup_hook if commands[0] in (&amp;#8217;upgrade&amp;#8217;, &amp;#8217;install&amp;#8217;, &amp;#8217;remove&amp;#8217;): And the solution is simply to remove: yum-rpm-warm-cache with command: yum remove yum-rpm-warm-cache ]]> <![CDATA[RPMFusion release for YUM.]]> <![CDATA[/2009/10/17/rpmfusion-release-for-yum/]]> 1255747619 <![CDATA[For people who have used yum on Fedora, you must have seen that couple of packages that you require are on Livna and couple of them on DAG and some others on FreshRPMs and Dribble. And for those of you, who have tried to install the packages from all these repositories, I know it is difficult. The repo&amp;#8217;s never worked too well together. So finallly there is a nice solution to all these problems, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rpmfusion.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;RPMFusion is the solution. This is a effort to merge the repo in all the four above mentioned repo. just now installed the repo and am updating my system and definately hope to get a lot lesser problems now. 🙂 So HAPPY installing new software and updates. ]]>