I have a bunch of setup scripts (rpm packages) for setting up a new Fedora and CentOS PC. I want to try offering ubuntu as an option to the family. I know I can use alien to install the rpms but there are a lot of scripts missing on a debian based system, not to mention dependencies.Can anyone give me some pointers or point me in the right direction? Or would it just be best to build .deb packages on a debian based system?
View 1 Repliesusing 10.04 . I am trying to create my own repository for packages.So that updates can be done offline. 1.I copied all packages which i usually use from
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/var/cache/apt/archives
and put it in folder local_repository
2.took backup for of sources.list
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So how to create Packages.gz and how to create repository?
i am using Fedora 12. How can i download the entire repository of fedora(fedora-release, Rpmfusion)..?
what will be the size of the respository??
How can I create packages for Windows7 and Linux using C# in mono-develop ? Will the packet be directly installed under Windows7 ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to create a LiveDVD with lots of packages that do not exist in repos. Stuff that I built from source...
OpenFOAM with my own customized solvers and utilities, Tetgen, Netgen ,GMSH with OpenCascade support, BRL-CAD, Code-Aster, Salome Platform, Code Saturne, FreeMat, K3d...
Some of these apps have been compiled with Intel development toolbox, icc/ifort/mkl. Mainly scientific/Engineering stuff. How do I include all these packages in a custom Live Build...?
I want to transfer the software and packages that's already installed. I have an ISO disc creator to take the current information on my hard disk and format it for an ISO, which I can burn onto a DVD, but what I'm wondering is, how would I go about reinstalling the OS
here's the backstory, I'm wanting to transfer the hard drive from this computer to the one I'm going to custom build once it's finished, and I'm pretty sure I would have to reinstall due to the fact that I would have to reconfigure and install new hardware drivers. If I'm wrong, please tell me so I don't waste the time and go through the trouble of this
my plan is to create an ISO of my hard disk, then backup all of my personal files, then remove them so the ISO will have more room (and I may get rid of some unnecessary packages), then get rid of everything on the hard drive (just use a livedisc of something and use a partition manager to delete all partitions on the hard drive) then move the hard drive over to the new computer, and reinstall with the ISO disc I created
the things that will be staying the same is the graphics card, some peripherals (like monitors, keyboard, wacom tablet, printer, etc...) but the motherboard has a different sound card and a different processor (I'll probably just install a different kernel to accommodate for that) and some different things that are smaller (don't forget the power supply)
offer a better method of transferring the hard drive (and don't say "just simply take the hard drive out and put it in the other computer" unless you have indisputable proof that it will work. I know it most likely won't work for multiple reasons, the drivers being one of them, the fact that windows can't do that (I have a different plan for windows that involves upgrading from vista 32bit to windows 7 64 bit))
On Fedora repo I found VirtualBox-ose packages there. What will be the difference in operation/function between their packages and the packages download on virtualbox.org website?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded from F13 to F14 using "preupgrade". This is the first time I've used preupgrade. So far, F14 is running OK. There are some leftovers from F13 and I'm wondering if this is correct.
Q1: There are 176 F13 packages remaining. [alfrugal@localhost Documents]$ rpm -qa | grep fc13 | wc -l 176 Is this OK? FWIW, after the upgrade, I ran "package-cleanup --orphans" as recommended by the "preupgrade" page on the Fedora Project wiki.
Q2: Also, my GRUB menu was correctly updated for F14, but it still contains the three entries it had for F13. Is it normal for the preupgrade process to require the user to clean up the obsolete entries from the GRUB menu?
im using fedora 14 and i have a slow internet connection. i want 2 install some packages from the fedora 14 dvd instead of downloading from internet using add/remove packages. i tried to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo but it dint work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI download all packages of Fedora 12 64 bit and all rpmfusion packages , all of them free and nonfree. all of them is near 20GB, I download all of them by rsync.I download them in work,In home I use Fedora12 64 bit and do not have internet connection , I copy all packages with USB flash and copy them to my Fedora box , and I want install VLC and other codecs and Nvidia driver for some games.What I must do ?I said again I do not have internet connection in home but I have all packages , free and nofree and rpmfusion packages
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am going to start reading about how to create Debian packages. Yet I would appreciate a simple overview about the process.Specifically, I would like to start with something simple: building a package with the Firefox 3.5.7 tar.gz pre-compiled binaries.If I understand correctly, the source files from Debian are modified in some way from the upstream provider, but my little Firefox project is not dealing with sources at all. The binaries are already compiled. So I'll appreciate a simple overview about creating a package from those Firefox binaries.
I realize the Firefox binaries can be installed as is, along with needing to create three sym links. That is not my goal. I figured starting with pre-compiled binaries will be an easier start into the Debian packaging process. Further, I prefer to install software with a package manager as that provides a system that is easier to maintain long-term.I suspect that an aide to my learning would be to extract the Iceweasel package and then draw similarities from that.
I've recent begun to want to create a spin of Fedora for my high school to offer as an alternative to Mac OS X and Windows. My first attempt with any distro was to try and use Suse Studio, however nothing with packages that I downloaded myself would successfully compile. I then thought that I might try and use some sort of local program do create it with and tried Revisor, however when I made Live Media, Xorg wouldn't start and when I made DVD Install Media the kernel would kernel panic every time on boot.
Is there anyway to solve the problem with Revisor or are there any alternatives?
I have also tried using Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Customization Kit however that didn't work either considering I have to have it in a virtual machine.
I am using Fedora 8 in my PC and i'm trying to create a shared memory (below is the sample program) i'm getting error while creating shared memory. Can anyone pl tell what is the possible cause for this.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to find out how to create a Fedora installation CD from an existing Fedora System. I cant find my CDs and I want to set up another system. What commands do i use or how do I go about it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm wanting to make a DSL live boot to run on an ancient laptop. I can't find a live USB creator that will do this for me in Fedora.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm new to linux and unfortunately my site, which was setup by someone else requires some maintainance. I have fedora 8 server running httpd service (I'm guessing its apache). I want to create a sub domain for my web site for development purposes. I located the files of the site but I can't located the httpd configuration file that referring to that site. I checked the default file under etchttpdconfhttpd.conf. I saw the <virtualhost> section, which reffering to the /var/www/html, but my files are not there. There is a file index.php which have only <? echo "" ?>. Where and how can I find the correct reference?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm preparing to "follow" these directions which will make VirtualBox's networking behave like VMWare's "NAT" networking. Of course, these instructions are for a Ubuntu/Debian setup.
I am quite certain that I can write a script that'll do the equivalent steps on my Fedora 11 box -- which is acceptable to me. I would, however, like to know how to splice this stuff into NetworkManager and/or /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/, to do this the "right" way.
The desired networking behavior:
-VM's get assigned addresses via DHCP on a virtual network
-VM's can talk to each other and to their physical host
-VM traffic out to the 'real world' is NATted
I have spent hours installing different packages and have everything pretty much how I want them. Is there a way to get a list of all the packages and/or save it in a way that should I need to reinstall, I do not miss anything
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having fedora 12 with php and mysql rpms installed on my computer.. but I am unable to log in...nether create an user?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi want to create a new volume(reiserFS) on my free space but i can and palimpsest gives this error: Error creating file system: Cannot run mkfs: cannot spawn 'mkfs.reiserfs -q -l "websites" /dev/sda3': Failed to execute child process "mkfs.reiserfs" (No such file or directory)
does i must install any package?
i had to install oracle in my laptop...it required a certain amount of swap space which i didnt have... i tried to create it using the datadump command... dd if=/dev/zero of=/extraswapf bs=1M count=512 i then rebooted and made the swapfile using: mkswap /extraswap i then made the entry in /etc/fstab as follows "/extraswap swap swap default 0 0" and i used the command : swapon /extraswap the swap space was visible after that... but after rebooting the swap space is not visibille
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using Fedora 5 (I know it's out of date), and I want to create a web mail server.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like to add some restrictions to my postfix configuration such as this:
"smtpd_sender_restriction = check_sender_access maptype:mapname"
give me detailed instruction on how to create this maptype:mapname file...
make it a detailed one since I am still a novice with linux.
how could I create a directory in /usr/local such that only certain group or user could have read write and execute privileges?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking into creating a web caching server for myself using fedora 10. I believe I need to use squid for this but it seems to have a lot of features. Basically, all I want for now is to be able to cache web pages that I and my network users use the most, increasing access time and lowering the load on my internet connection. Can squid do this and can someone point in the right direction on an article on how to configure such a thing?
View 5 Replies View RelatedLooking for an up-to-date guide for creation on DOS based USB flash using a large (2GB) USB key. All the guides are OLD and not working.
View 14 Replies View Relatedhowever, I couldn't find a place in which it would really fit well. I have 2 hard drives, that I want to backup. I've heard of servers and things like that using a hard drive image. Is this similar to a disk image? What are the benefits of using hard drive imaging as opposed to using DVDs? And perhaps most importantly: how would I go about it using Fedora 10 (64 bit)?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to create a keyboared shortcut for creating new folder and so i use this command in gnome-kinbin : mkdir myfolder but it does not work but when i write:mkdir /home/user/myfolder it works correctly .
How i can say it to create the folder in the current directory of that is active in the current windows? and also what is the command for creating a file as .txt or .
About a month ago I decided that I would try and revive my long dead PC which, when the original hard drive failed, took out an IDE channel, leaving me with only one. The machine was built back in 2001 (maybe a month or so after XP came out) and is suffering from its age.I was able to install Fedora 12 to its hard drive by putting it into a USB hard drive cage.
You'd think I could just put the hard drive back in the machine and have everything work right? If only. The BIOS is unable to recognize the, for lack of a better term, bootability of the hard drive (it does recognize it, and I have checked the BIOS settings to make sure that it is the primary boot device). I have a reiser card in the machine and I was wondering if it is possible to create a portable bootloader cd that will just boot to the first partition of the hard drive (The reiser card is recognized and it USED to be able to boot directly to it from my BIOS, but no such luck now)
how to get a working bootable USB boot disk for DOS using Fedora 12. I needed the dos boot disk to flash my motherboard BIOS as it did not support linux for updating the bios. Thought I'd put the steps involved to help other people who wanted to do something similar. The steps outlined here are for a Fedora 12 system. You should be able to extrapolate the minor changes that may be required for other linux distributions. All commands listed below to be typed in on a command prompt, logged in as root. Here goes...
1. Prerequisites:
syslinux
testdisk
freedos base cd (http://www.freedos.org/)
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Acknowledgments:
1. [URL] for enlightening me on the fact that testdisk could be used instead of install-mbr
2. [URL] upon which this howto is broadly based.