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Installing Chrome with Flash on Linux (Fedora)

Get Chrome Download rpm here 32 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE) OR 64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE) Install Chrome Go to the directory where the file was downloaded and install the rpm: rpm -ivh google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm OR rpm -ivh google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm Get Flash … Continue reading

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Install JDK on Linux in just 2 minutes

NOTE: Instructions are specific to Fedora distributions After stumbling over JDK installations on Fedora each and every time, I finally decided to put down the steps on paper so that I can refer back whenever required. Here’s a very easy … Continue reading

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Problem installing Swiftiply gem

Sometime back I was trying to deploy a Rails application on a Fedora 10 64-bit server. We had decided to use Nginx and evented Mongrel (with the help of Swiftiply) for the web and application servers respectively. When I tried … Continue reading

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Working with attachment_fu on 64 bit OS

Stuck again at attachment_fu :( Since my previous article covers a lot about attachment_fu, I’ll keep this one really short. Sometime back I was working on a Rails application that used attachment_fu to upload images and create thumbnails. Everything worked … Continue reading

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Install and Configure VNC Server for Linux in just 2 minutes

NOTE: Instructions are specific to Fedora distributions Installing the VNC Server foo$ su       # Login as root foo$ yum install vnc-server foo$ exit     # Exit root Start the vncserver so that the necessary files are created in the ~/.vnc directory … Continue reading

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