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Find duplicate files

Posted in Play on 6 January 2010 | 2 comments
Tags: bash, cli, fedora, linux, perl, scripting, tools

Update: As Pádraig Brady, fslint maintainer, pointed out: fslint/findup *is* a shell script.
My 500-GB Seagate FreeAgent Desktop is almost filled to the brim (there’s *only* ~70GB free space left) so I need to find all duplicate files for clean-up.
Fortunately, there are tools to do just this. I tried fslint, which is also available in [...]

Upgrading to Fedora 12

Posted in Play on 30 November 2009 | Comments?
Tags: fedora, linux, opensource

…was pain-free. Well, almost.
The prep work for Fedora’s latest version, Constantine, involved backing up important files and freeing up space. Like my move from Fedora 10 to 11, I used PreUpgrade (I’ didn’t want to do the yum upgrade route — it was too much work for something that should be trivial by now).
Reading through [...]

Fix for Picasa 3 Linux login problem

Posted in Play on 21 September 2009 | 3 comments
Tags: cli, fedora, google, linux, picasa, yum

(Update: Just realized that this isn’t a fix but a workaround. The fix would be for Google to bundle the working Wine binaries. (Then again, they most likely use the stable release, while Fedora uses the current development one. Oh well…))
Picasa 3 for Linux has this niggling* problem: you can’t log on to Picasa Web. [...]

Chromium on Fedora

Posted in Play on 8 September 2009 | Comments?
Tags: chromium, fedora, firefox, google, opensource

I finally have Chromium on Fedora 11, thanks to Fedora developer, Tom “spot” Callaway’s dev repo.
In /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo:

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

And it was just a matter of doing:

yum install chromium

I CAN HAZ CHROMIUM!

My launcher specifies the following:

–enable-plugins –enable-user-scripts –enable-extensions

so this build now supports plugins (it adopted the Mozilla Firefox plugins, like Flash and the Citrix ICA client [...]

Fedora 11 upgrade notes

Posted in In-between on 11 June 2009 | 4 comments
Tags: fedora, linux, opensource

Fedora 11 Leonidas was released two days ago, and last night, I decided to upgrade from Fedora 10.
I wimped out, however: instead of going the yum route, I used Preupgrade, which is a simplified version of the upgrade process. Preupgrade downloads all the necessary packages for an Anaconda-assisted upgrade. So, after about four hours of [...]