Installing skype on 64 bit linux

Skype needs a number of i686 RPMS to run on a 64 bit Fedora Linux machine. 

yum install glibc.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686

VMWare Player 4.0.2 doesn't like the latest kernel that is available for Fedora 16. A bit of patching is required.

http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2012/01/26/vmware-workstation-8-0-2-player-4-0-2-fix-for-linux-kernel-3-2-and-3-3/

A big thanks to those that posted the solution.

Making OpenVPN run as a service on Fedora 16

Make sure the config file is named something like myvpn.conf in

/etc/openvpn

# ln -s /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/openvpn@myvpn.service

Then start and stop the service manually this way:

# systemctl start openvpn@myvpn.service
# systemctl stop openvpn@myvpn.service

Or enable it to start at boot time:

# systemctl enable openvpn@myvpn.service

Thanks to those that took the time to post the solution here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272612

Booting into single user mode

Every time I receive a new kernel I must install the NVIDIA drivers.

1. Boot the new kernel into single user mode. Add "single" and "vga=normal" to the grub boot command
2. Switch to run level 3 with telinit 3
3. 3. Log in and run the NVIDIA installer

Fedora 16

Once again after the installation of a new version of Fedora things have changed.

Grub has become grub2 and the administration of it is different. The first change I had to deal with is the setting of the default boot partition.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Grub2

My Eclipse plugins

Android  http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse

Groovy  http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7

Perforce  http://www.perforce.com/downloads/http/p4-eclipse/install/3.6

From the Eclipse Marketplace

• Google plugin


• EGit


• PyDev


• Findbugs

Fedora 15

I have installed Fedora on my guinea pig machine. Things went pretty smoothly apart from two problems.

1. selinux was stopping openvpn from working. The simple solution is to disable selinux like I usually do.

2. Bluetooth is not enabled and started by default on F15. This seems to be a bug. The steps to enable it require interacting with the new systemctl utility.

systemctl status bluetooth.service
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=265053