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To re-install the bootloader for Fedora Core 19; you must first load into your Linux installation with a chroot. This post will explain this process. https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/re-installing-the-grub2-bootloader-using-a-chroot-with-linux-mint-14/. Then, once you are in the chroot environment, the following commands will re-install GRUB for you. root@neo homer# grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported.root@neo homer# grub2-install /dev/sda Installation … Read more
Fedora Silverblue is using a very interesting feature. OSTree. This makes the operating system root filesystem read-only and the addition of software to the core operating system is something that can be rolled back at any time. This is rather like a Github repository. The underlying root filesystem is immutable and only the changes layered … Read more
Use the Gnome favorites barUse a blue light filter for GnomeSet GTK 3.0 theme with command line Use the Gnome favorites bar To add applications to the favorites bar on the left of the screen in Gnome 3, just right click on any application icon in the applications menu and select add to favorites. Then … Read more
I could not get the networking to work with Fedora 30. The kernel version is 5. This will not allow me to install the VMWare addons, the drivers will not compile. This is a problem. And every time I load the distribution I have to reset the desktop resolution. I will try it in KVM … Read more
I just installed the Linux version of the SGI desktop on my Fedora 25 Linux machine. This was not too hard either. Download a copy of the installation script from here: http://www.maxxinteractive.com/site/?page_id=51. Run the script as root to download and install the MaXX desktop tarball. [root@localhost Downloads]# sh MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-Installer.sh >>> Downloading MaXX Interactive Desktop … Read more
Create a new user on Linux with the command line Fairlight CMI media workstation with 5 1/4 inch drives. Creating a new user on Linux with the command line is very easy. Just use the useradd command and this will be accomplished very easily. Use this command to create a new user account. ubuntu ~ … Read more
Installing the KDE 4 desktop on Fedora 25 is very easy. There are package groups that allow installation of desktop environments. This is how to install the KDE desktop environment group. [root@localhost jason]# dnf install @kde-desktop-environment[root@localhost jason]# dnf install @kde-desktop-environment This command will fetch and install KDE 4 on Fedora. Then install the KDM desktop … Read more
How to enable encrypted DVD playback on Fedora 25 Playing a DVD on Fedora 25 is not too difficult. I already had the extra repositories added to enable multimedia playback support, but I could not play a DVD. So I downloaded the libdvdcss library. http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.0/. Then I built and installed it. darkstar% tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2darkstar% … Read more
This post will show how to rip the audio from a video file to a wav and then convert that to an ogg file. This is very simple and easy to do. This long command will rip the audio from the file and save it in the out.wav file. localhost% mplayer -ao pcm:fast:file=out.wav -vo null … Read more
The arc Gnome Shell theme is a very nice theme for the Gnome Shell desktop. This is how to install this theme on Fedora 25. Firstly, download the theme this way. [jason@darkstar Desktop]$ git clone https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme.git Cloning into ‘arc-theme’… remote: Counting objects: 10466, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Total 10466 (delta 1), … Read more
To crack a Fedora Core password hash easily, the john the ripper utility will come in handy. This allows cracking of Linux passwords without much fuss as long as the password is in the wordlist. Install the utility. [root@darkstar Documents]# dnf install john[root@darkstar Documents]# dnf install john Then it is necessary to make a copy … Read more
My hard drive with Ubuntu 16.10 failed, so I decided to install Fedora 25 instead. This Linux distribution has the advantage of NSA Selinux that greatly improves security. And the Gnome desktop is very fast and good looking to boot. Adding the RPMFusion repositories to Fedora allows the installation of restricted codecs and associated software … Read more
The MS DOS operating system has quite a lot of command-line arguments that may be used to ease the task of file management. Sure, it is no match for the Linux shell, but the DOS operating system in its time. But then along came the easy to use Linux distributions such as Mandrake Linux and … Read more
To find a specific package that offers a certain file, the whatprovides parameter to dnf will do what you wish. Here is an example, I am looking for all packages that provide the vim command. [jason@hackerbox Documents]$ dnf whatprovides "*/vim" Last metadata expiration check performed 26 days, 19:55:19 ago on Tue Sep 15 12:49:19 2015. … Read more
The new dnf command for Fedora 22 replaces the old yum command. But this new utility is still easy to use. To install all pending updates for Fedora 22, use this command. [root@localhost homer]# dnf update[root@localhost homer]# dnf update Use the dnf install command to install software. [root@localhost homer]# dnf install vim mc Last metadata … Read more
The Linux command line offers useful tools that enable you to find files easily. The find command is one useful example. Here I am using the find command to look for all *.png files in a folder. homer@deusexmachina ~/Documents $ find /usr/share/backgrounds -name "*.png" /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-petra/linux_mint_16.png /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-petra/petra.png /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.pnghomer@deusexmachina ~/Documents $ find /usr/share/backgrounds -name "*.png" /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-petra/linux_mint_16.png /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-petra/petra.png … Read more
I recently updated to the 3.13 kernel on Fedora Core 20 and the 12.1 ATI drivers stopped working. I fixed this by downloading the 14.1 beta drivers which support that kernel. Download this here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Latest-LINUX-Beta-Driver.aspx. This works perfectly for those Fedora 20 users like me who are also affected by this update. Just uninstall the … Read more
How to find out what rpm package provides a file that you need. The yum provides command is useful for finding out this information. You may use wildcards to search for a file, this can make finding it easier. [homer@localhost jackhammer]$ yum provides */redhat**.jpg Loaded plugins: langpacks nagios-3.5.1-4.fc20.x86_64 : Nagios monitors hosts and services and … Read more
I recently updated to a new kernel version and the ATI drivers were not loaded as they had not been built for that kernel. I had to re-compile the ATI drivers, so I switched to the root user and navigated to this folder. [root@localhost homer]# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/[root@localhost homer]# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ Then I ran this command … Read more