Google Video & Voice chat for Fedora (RPM based – SUSE / RedHat)
by Alx on Sep.13, 2010, under Linux
Google after some complains ultimately released an RPM based installer for their video and voice chat plug-in, this is a long awaited release, even more after the release of the .DEB package who made half of us angry!!
Well now you can get it at (continue reading…)
PPTP broken
by Alx on Feb.26, 2010, under Linux, Work
The last updates from Fedora repos seem to have broken the NetworkManager extension for PPTP, this prevents a user from creating a VPN connection using the mentioned protocol.
The errors you might find when you grep /var/log/messages are: (continue reading…)
Fedora 12 & Google Picasa
by Alx on Feb.20, 2010, under Linux, Personal
Lately after some update from the rawhide repos I got an error in Google Picasa where I could not connect to Picasa web. I found several other others that dont use rawhide with the same problems so I guess with would have something to do with latest wine update. (continue reading…)
Enemy Territory sound problems under Fedora 12
by Alx on Feb.20, 2010, under Fun, Personal
This seems to be a regular problem under any distro of Linux not only Fedora and as soon you get it right there it comes a new alsa driver or new distro upgrade to ruin this again.. Well I can’t garantee you that this will fix your problem with ET sound but it sure fixed mine (at least until the next version comes out). (continue reading…)
Skype under Fedora 11
by Alx on Sep.11, 2009, under Linux, Personal
Fedora 11 and Skype almost play well togheter!!
If you enconter the following error after the instalation of skype under you fedora 11:
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
For this, you would require the file libXss.so.1
Enter the following command in the terminal and then start skype.
Code:
yum install libXss.so.1