How To Fix Kernel (3.7.2-201) version.h file in Fedora 18

Jan 19 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 35474 Views | with No Comments

I came across an issue while installing ATI Radeon Catalyst drivers on my new Fedora 18 installation. It kept failing by saying one of the required tool is missing to proceed further with installation. By looking into log file, I found that it try to access one of my install kernel 3.7.2-201 header file named version.h in /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/. Its a bug and kernel 3.7.2-201 devel rpm i.e kernel-devel-3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 miss installing version.h in /lib/modules/3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64/build/include/linux/ location. Continue Reading

How To Install Shutter (Screenshot Tool) on Fedora 17

Jan 12 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 46620 Views | with 3 Comments

In this howto I will describe how to install shutter (screenshot tool like snippingtool in windows) on Fedora 17. Shutter is a GTK+ 2.0 screenshot application written in perl. It gives a sophisticated way of capturing screenshot of your desktop or selection of it. The captured screenshot later on can be edited to fit your need. You can crop, add caption, hide something personal using its beautiful GTK based GUI tool and even can capture any website screenshot using url. You just need to install shutter which comes with a heavy list of dependencies and will use up to 47M approximately of your disk space. Continue Reading

Free Icon/Symbol from Open Icon Library

Apr 3 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 58948 Views | with No Comments

A project Open Icon Library (http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/) will be very useful for the developers / designers to use icon free, modify and redistribute. I found it very helpful to community and some how everybody in this community need icons either they are web designers or application developers.

A free and open Icon collection. Over 10,000 Unique Icons. Free for anyone to use on you computer, website or any other project. The library is not a theme. Its a centralized source for icons to cover all your needs. The goal is to cover all common apps, operating systems, mimetypes, devices, and country flags. Continue Reading

How To Downgrade RPM Package Using YUM

Apr 1 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 57411 Views | with No Comments

In this howto I will describe how to Downgrade a RPM Package Using YUM. Yum came with a plugin named yum-allowdowngrade which allow you to downgrade any existing install RPM to older version. This requirement came from one of my client server that it requires to downgrade PHP version from 5.3.8 to 5.2.17. Continue Reading

How To Remove i386 RPM Package from x86_64 Install

Mar 31 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 34529 Views | with No Comments

In this how to I will describe how to remove any i386 RPM Package from your x86_64 version of install. The operating system can be RHEL, Fedora or CentOS. Sometimes using yum we accidentally or intentionally or as requirement we install i386 rpm package on our x86_64 install of RHEL, Fedora or CentOS. Continue Reading

How To Add EPEL Repository on CentOS / RHEL 6.x

Feb 25 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 49346 Views | with 3 Comments

In this How To we are going to add EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) on CentOS / RHEL 6.x. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). Continue Reading

How To Prevent Package Update Using YUM

Feb 21 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 31837 Views | with No Comments

In this howto we will discuss how to prevent any package to be update using yum even its update is available. Sometimes we require to stick with current version of any installed rpm package and does not need to update. But whenever you execute yum command, it will search for available update for the current package install. Even if any package which is part of dependencies of installing rpm package will get update using yum. Continue Reading

How To Encrypt Files Using GnuPG

Feb 16 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 35163 Views | with 2 Comments

In this HowTo we will discuss to encypt files using GnuPG. Encryption is a method which protect data stored on your computer or sending over the network from compromise. It can be used to ensure and verify data comes from a rightful owner, and also to maintain confidentiality of the data. We will used a tool GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) to encrypt individual files or validate files. Continue Reading

How To Fix Bluetooth in Fedora 15

May 26 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 32372 Views | with 34 Comments

In this howto I will describe how to fix bluetooth issue in Fedora 15. I updated Fedora 15 last night and found out my bluetooth mouse is not connected. By seeing icon at tray, it shows bluetooth is on but visibility option was faded and by selecting setting everything was faded. That means something was fishing regarding it. By investigating different fedora forums founds its been a small bug that bluetooth service were not run at startup. To fix this you have to enable the service to run at startup and start the service to use your bluetooth pheriphirals. Continue Reading

How To Fix MySQL Error ‘Could not parse relay log event entry’

Jul 5 | Linux | Sohail Riaz | 39959 Views | with 15 Comments

In this howto i will describe how to fix MySql error ‘Could not parse relay log event entry’. On one of my client database replication cluster we got issue of ‘Could not parse relay log event entry’ on slaves. On investigating it found he has deleted some relay log files to free up the space. You can see the error in show slave status command on Last_Error field. Continue Reading