Tag: Fedora

This post describes how you can unblock port 25565 to allow Minecraft Server traffic through in the Fedora firewall.

This post quickly lists how you can install the SDL 2 dev tools on Fedora.

This post goes through the process of setting up a Windows Samba share on Fedora 26. This will let me access folders on the Fedora machine using windows explorer.

This post talks about how you can install Linode Longview on Fedora 28. Why doesn’t the standard instructions work? It turns out that you cannot just install Linode Longview on Fedora 28 as it isn’t a supported operating system. When running the automatic install script the following error will appear. Failed to synchronize cache for

This post documents the process of installing a Root Certification Authority on Fedora 28. Adding a Root Certificate Authority to Fedora 28 First you must obtain the PEM file for your root certificate. This will either need to be created by you or will be given to you by your organisation. This is the certificate

Today I talk about how you can install the official MySQL community server on Fedora 28.

This post describes how you can unblock port 5601 to allow Kibana traffic through in the Fedora firewall.

This post describes how you can unblock port 9200 to allow Elasticsearch traffic through in the Fedora firewall.

Today I write about how you can list all installable versions of a package in Fedora.

In this post I talk about the additional steps needed to install Redmine on Fedora 28.

Today I detail the command line arguments needed to install an RPM on Fedora 28.

Today I talk about how I fixed “Failed to build nokogiri 1.8.3” on Fedora 28.

Today I write about how you can fix the python error “No module named MySQLdb” in Fedora 28

In this post I talk about how you can change the default selected OS and reorder the boot list in GRUB for Fedora.

This post describes how you can unblock port 9001 to allow Etherpad traffic through in the Fedora firewall.

This post describes how you can unblock port 10050 to allow Zabbix agent traffic through in the Fedora firewall.

This post describes how you can unblock port 80 to allow HTTP traffic through in the Fedora firewall.

This blog post describes how you can install Dropbox on Fedora 27 XFCE.

This post describes what SELinux is and how you can disable it on Fedora 26 if you need to.

This post documents the process of installing a Root Certification Authority on Fedora 26.

This post describes how to exclude specific packages from being updated with Fedora and dnf or yum

This post describes how to set  up a SSL certificate with Certbot on Apache and Fedora. The guide primarily follows the guide on the certbot website however adds some additional information for if auto configuration fails.

On my fedora system I found that after upgrading the kernel the graphics drivers wouldnt work. My machine would boot into the operating system perfectly fine but would have no image on the screen. This post describes how I fixed this issue.

This post describes how to install virtualbox guest additions on a Fedora virtual machine.

It appears newer linux sshd configs (fedora 22) by default include a smaller set of key exchange based mechanisms that they have turned on. This means that it gives errors saying it is unable to connect to the server. To fix this you need to enable some of the older key exchange mechanisms, Adding this line

Installing via the normal route didn’t work and meant I couldn’t easily resize the screen. Doing the below allowed me to use the resize easily. Install rpmfusion on fedora run `sudo yum install akmod-VirtualBox VirtualBox-guest` run `cd /usr/src/akmods` run `sudo rpm -ivh VirtualBox-*.rpm` Once this was installed, rebooting will give you access to shared folders and fullscreen mode

If your computer is recent and has an i3/i5/i7 intel core and a Nvidia graphics card it likely uses Optimus technology. This smart piece of software turns off the power-hungry Nvidia graphics card and runs most programs on the integrated intel graphics chip. In laptops this can save a lot of power. However this solution

Windows 7 has a really nice feature that lets you tile a window to the left or right of the screen, allowing easier placement. This is normally activated with the Windows-(left, right, up down) Arrow key combination. I had searched how to do this with XFCE for a while and today after upgrading to Fedora

After i installed Fedora 18 XFCE i found that it by default doesnt show the icons on the application menu. I normally navigate it by checking the images and not reading the words, so this inconvenienced me. On checking the properties I found that “Show icons in menu” was checked but it did not seem to