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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…)

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…)

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…)

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

Well, i was trying to get my new laptop up to date with the latest VMware Player the easy way, instead of having to resolve linux issues during the instalation.
To begin you should go on the VMware website and download a pretty “.bundle” package that should relieve you from all the hassle of installing stuff under nix* and there you have a nice GUI running and after a few seconds and some “next” buttons you get a pretty “..Installation successful”.

I couldn’t be more mistaken, when i was trying to run the player for my surprise guess what? (continue reading…)