Ruby, Rails and httpd on Fedora 8
Just a short summary of how to install Ruby on Rails framework on Fedora 8 and how to configure it to work with Apache 2. Perhaps this might come handy to someone.
Overheard in the IT dept.: Should you have any more questions, please contact your local IT Global Support. Fedora 8: select the repositories carefully
A week ago, I installed Fedora 8, from scratch. The installation went fine, I customized the system to my liking, using the default GUI. After a week, however, I could not initialize an X session anymore. And the problem occurred straight after I downloaded the package updates as the system prompted me to do.
Fedora 7: Unresolveable requirement gecko-libs = 1.8.1.4 for epiphany
July 31st, 2007 | 2 Comments | Tagged as Fedora
When I started my trusty home PC to process some of my holiday photographs (that explains the silence on this web, I hope), Fedora 7 presented me with the list of 92 updates available for my system. I usually let the the pup (Package Updater) to update all packages and it usually works just fine. This time, Package Updater kept on displaying the “Error resolving dependencies” message.
Upgrading to Fedora 7: have your partitions labeled
Although “doing a clean installation and then restoring user data from backups is known to work better”, Fedora recommends to use CD/DVD installer to upgrade your Fedora Core installation to a higher version. I usually perform a clean install when updating Linux at home, this time however, I decided to let Anaconda (the Fedora installer) to do the job. I was very pleased with the overall result with one exception: the installer forced me to manually modify my /etc/fstab, refusing to continue otherwise.