[ale] keeping an antique running for another 3 months

[Jim Kinney]

Just remember that fedora bleeding edge is called "rawhide". Fedora 20 is
nicely stable and production ready (once you learn the new desktop setup).

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:

su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E
%fedora).noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm-E
%fedora).noarch.rpm'

I guess flash is useful, too. Installing the repo is best so it can update
when they fix the security bugs:

su -c 'yum -y install
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-$(uname-p)-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'

then su -c 'yum install flash-plugin'

and if you're going to play commercial DVDs, you'll also want the libdvdcss:

su -c 'yum -y localinstall http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm'

now install all the codecs:

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'


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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.
>
> :)
>
> Sean
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Friday, May 16, 2014 01:29:39 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> > fedup is your friend. update that ancient beast!
>
> >
>
> > sounds like those files are links to each other. Thus no actual file.
>
> > run locate xpcon
>
> >
>
> > run fedup too. ancient fedora is a security deathtrap.
>
> >
>
> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > Running an out-of-date Fedora.
>
> > >
>
> > > Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about
>
> > > it.
>
> > >
>
> > > Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.
>
> > >
>
> > > When I try to run the executable, I get this error:
>
> > >
>
> > > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file
>
> > > /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:
>
> > >
>
> > > libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>
> > > directory
>
> > >
>
> > > Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> > >
>
> > > So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link
>
> > > to /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to
>
> > > libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.
>
> > >
>
> > > I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides in
>
> > > /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:
>
> > >
>
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM
>
> > >
>
> > > where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on
>
> > > black background and the second is blinking white on a red
>
> > > background. I have no idea what that is trying to tell me.
>
> > >
>
> > > In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make
>
> > > a link to that file but that didn't work:
>
> > >
>
> > > [root at Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm
>
> > > usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
>
> > >
>
> > > ln: creating symbolic link
>
> > > `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or
>
> > > directory
>
> > >
>
> > > I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory
>
> > > since the system was first booted. All 12k of it.
>
> > >
>
> > > I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.
>
> > >
>
> > > Sean
>
> > >
>
> > >
>
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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