How to extract RAR files

Rar files are starting to be used extensively on the internet. You can install the package in Fedora.

you need to have Livna repository enabled

# yum install unrar

Speed up your gnome menu load up

Simple trick that does the job for me

$echo “gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0″ >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0

This works only on Gnome not kde

DVD Ripper

Before you do this you have to have freshrpms repo installed on your machine. 

yum --enablerepo=freshrpms install dvdrip

Google Desktop

You will need to be root to create the file.

su -

Then create the repo

$ vim /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Google Desktop is a desktop search application that gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. Desktop makes searching your own email, files, music, photos, and more as easy as searching the web with Google.

su -c 'yum --enablerepo=google install google-desktop-linux'

Tweaking Yum!!!

This additional software repos will not be enabled by default this is because there is risk associated with it mixing and matching repos can be very dangerous too

Livna.

To install go to

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/MyStartingPage

and download appropriate .rpm package for your distribution

run

# rpm -ivh packagename.rpm

this will install livna repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/*

please protect your repositories using the following command

# yum install yum-protectbase

# perl -i -pe “s/(\[.*\])/\1\nprotect=yes/” /etc/yum.repos.d/{fedora*,livna*}

this will help you protect your repos and not crash your system!!

FreshRPMS

You can install the freshrpms package however it is recommended to change the enabled section to be manually enabled.

download.rpm form

#http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/9/freshrpms-release/

then run the rpm using

#rpm -ivh fresh… rpm

#vim /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo

You will need to change the enabled=1 to enabled=0 This is how it will be installed.

How to find out the lastest installed or Updated RPM Package on Redhat Variant

The following command will list all the packages in the ascending order!

rpm -qa --last | tac

How to mount and Unmount .iso

How to Un/Mount an Image (iso) without burning it

* To mount your file.iso

mkdir ~/your_disc/
su -c 'mount file.iso ~/your_disc -t iso9660 -o loop'

To access your file.iso you can go into the directory ~/your_disc

* To unmount your file.iso

su -c 'umount ~/your_disc/'