Are you a Fedora user who wants to check out the new Australis Theme for Firefox scheduled for release with Firefox 28? However, you are a bit apprehensive of letting go that stable release of Firefox in bundled within your Fedora installation by default, just in case something goes wrong…
-
-
Installing Skype on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s a list of command line steps to install Skype on Fedora 19:- Step 1: Open up the terminal and switch to super user: $su – Step 2: Install the dependencies: yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 qtwebkit.i686 zlib.i686 Step…
-
Installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s another three step guide to installing Sublime Text 2 on Fedora 19 – Schrodinger’s Cat:- Download the installation script from the following gist. https://gist.github.com/sayak-sarkar/5810101 Extract it to your home directory [or anywhere you like]. $tar -xvf gist5810101-3b0e9bb3ef5128760df9e3e06877fa4f7e5689ec.tar.gz Open your terminal (preferably as super user), navigate to your home directory…
-
Installing VLC player on Fedora 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s a simple three step guide to installing VLC media player on Fedora 19 [Schrodinger’s Cat]:- Login as Super User: $su Setup rpmfusion: #rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm Install vlc using the default yum package manager: #yum install vlc mozilla-vlc Voila! You now have VLC media player installed on you computer! 🙂
-
Installing Microsoft TrueType Fonts in Fedora18 / 19 / 20
This is something that I just learned how to do, courtesy of a documentation work that I need to for my college’s fourth semester evaluations, where the requirements state that I need to use Arial / Verdana fonts for my Project Report. The interesting part is that I’m a hardcore…
-
Installing Steam for Linux Beta | Counter Strike for Fedora 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s the link to a really interesting article by Russel Bryant that I found on the web. Especially helpful for all my geeky gamer friends who keep on complaining about how they are not able to play Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 on their Linux based systems. Enjoy! If…