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I want to use Gentoo's packages on Fedora. Is this possible?
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I'm trying to use remote desktop on my laptop (running Fedora) to my desktop (also running Fedora) on the same local network.
I configured Remote Desktop on my desktop via System - Preferences - Remote Desktop, verified that the port is open by nmap, and attempted to connect from my laptop via vinagre…
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I want to install texlive on my fedora 16 laptop
with the following procedure:
# yum remove tex-* texlive-*
# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/texlive.repo <<EOF
[texlive]
name=texlive
baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.f17/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
# yum update;
# yum install…
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I did run preupgrade to upgrade my Fedora 16(x64) to Fedora 17. And it seemed to work fine. So I got the new gimp 2.8, gcc 4.7.0 and so on. But the system keeps using the old kernel from fc16. Uname -a gives me:
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 16 21:43:01 UTC 2012 x86_64…
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I had already installed the yum-security before. And I was going to do an update by entering the following command:
[root@localhost /]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping…
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We have a sendmail server that also works as DHCP, DNS, and a gateway to our ISP. It has three network interfaces, one for our ISP ( static IP) and the other two is for LANS on different subnet. The hardware is quite old and we've been experiencing downtime due to hardware failures, so we have decided…
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I have a single access point which i want to connect to on interface ra0, when I run /etc/init.d/ra0 restart I get the following output:
gentoo ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ra0 restart
* Starting ra0
* Configuring wireless network for ra0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed…
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I have a single access point which i want to connect to on interface ra0, when I run /etc/init.d/ra0 restart I get the following output:
gentoo ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ra0 restart
* Starting ra0
* Configuring wireless network for ra0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed…
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I tried to stop X so I could install graphics drivers. First I tried with killall -9 X but X server just restarted. Then I tried init 3 but that didn't closed X. How do I close it?
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I have a iMac G5 only with Gentoo installed on it and every time I turn it on, it plays the startup chime.
I already have my headset plugged in but this doesn't mute the sound.
Is there a way to turn it off using the Open Firmware or, if this isn't possible, could a script do this ?
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I installed git and gitosis as described here in this guide Here are the steps I took:
Server: Gentoo
Client: MAC OS X
1) git install
emerge dev-util/git
2) gitosis install
cd ~/src
git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
cd gitosis
python setup.py install
3) added git user
adduser --system…
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