<div dir="ltr">Just remember that fedora bleeding edge is called "rawhide". Fedora 20 is nicely stable and production ready (once you learn the new desktop setup).<br><br>The installation will setup the fedora repos for base and updates. After that, all that's needed is rpm-fusion for non-shipping binaries (like NVidia, Broadcom, etc) - command line version is:<br>
<br>su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck <a href="http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm">http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm</a> -E %fedora).noarch.rpm <a href="http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm">http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm</a> -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'<br>
<br>I guess flash is useful, too. Installing the repo is best so it can update when they fix the security bugs:<br><br>su -c 'yum -y install <a href="http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-$(uname">http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-$(uname</a> -p)-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'<br>
<br>then su -c 'yum install flash-plugin'<br><br>and if you're going to play commercial DVDs, you'll also want the libdvdcss:<br><br>su -c 'yum -y localinstall <a href="http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm">http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm</a>'<br>
<br>now install all the codecs:<br><br>su -c 'yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg ffmpeg mencoder ffmpeg2theora mplayer libdvdcss'</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">This is W-A-Y too old for that. I intend to KISS: back up the home dir, make a list of repos and installed <stuff>, then hose all and install new from scratch, replacing 5-year-old HDs -- in RAID-1 (software) -- in the process: where "install new" = FC current-1. I'm not opposed to bleeding edge as a rule, but I've learned that mopping up the blood can get messy.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Friday, May 16, 2014 01:29:39 pm Jim Kinney wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> fedup is your friend. update that ancient beast!</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> sounds like those files are links to each other. Thus no actual file.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> run locate xpcon</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> run fedup too. ancient fedora is a security deathtrap.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Running an out-of-date Fedora.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > it.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > When I try to run the executable, I get this error:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > directory</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Couldn't load XPCOM.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > to /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides in</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > black background and the second is blinking white on a red</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > background. I have no idea what that is trying to tell me.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > a link to that file but that didn't work:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > [root@Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > ln: creating symbolic link</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > directory</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > since the system was first booted. All 12k of it.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > Sean</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> > </p>
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