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You might encounter error while running nautilus or Real Player from the terminal. Listed below is a list of error message and the packages I installed to resolved the gtk warning. Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “clearlooks”, $sudo yum install gtk2-engines gtk2-engines.i686 Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module” $sudo yum install PackageKit-gtk-module PackageKit-gtk-module.i686 Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module” $sudo yum install libcanberra-gtk2 libcanberra-gtk3 libcanberra-gtk2.i686  libcanberra-gtk3.i686 *** End ***

This installation guide has been tested for Fedora 16. [Note: There is some problem during the installation of Real Player on Fedoar 17. Fedora 17 users, please use VLC instead.]   You can download the last version of Real Player 11 at  https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/ You should be downloading a file "RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm" Pre-Installation Setup Before installing the rpm file, you need to install additional libraries. For 64-bit Fedora users, use the following command: sudo yum install -y redhat-lsb redhat-lsb.i686 gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i686 gtk2-engines gtk2-engines.i686 PackageKit-gtk-module PackageKit-gtk-module.i686 libcanberra-gtk2 libcanberra-gtk3 libcanberra-gtk2.i686 libcanberra-gtk3.i686 For 32-bit Fedora users, use the following command: sudo yum install -y redhat-lsb gstreamer-plugins-ugly gtk2-engines PackageKit-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk2 libcanberra-gtk3 Install Real Player To install Re...

Please be aware that RealNetworks, the company that created the Real media format, no longer support Real Player for Linux . There are a few options that allows you to play Real media (rm and ram files) in Fedora or any other distribution of Linux. Playing Real Media with VLC Media Player If you've installed VLC media player, it will play Real media without any problems.The images may appear distorted for a while when you fast forward the video. To install VLC media player, use the command: $sudo yum install vlc Playing Real Media with MPlayer MPlayer is pre-loaded with Fedora, to play Real Media you need to allow the Player to search and install the necessary codecs and library files. You need to perform the search and installation of codecs a few times. I manage to play a sample file on the third attempt. Playing Real Media with Real Player You can still download and install the last version of Real Player. Please check my post Install Real Player 11 on Fedora .  **...

This installation procedure can be applied to both Fedora 15 and Fedora 16. If you had follow my post before and confident with my script, you can scroll down to the bottom of the post and download the script. The script will automatically download, configure and install VirtualBox. First, you need to download the repository file from: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo Then you need to move the file "virtualbox.repo" to the folder /etc/yum.repos.d/. In the terminal, navigate to the location where you kept the file and use the command: $sudo mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ Then you need to install dkms as follows: $sudo yum install dkms To install the latest version of VirtualBox use the command: $sudo yum install virtualbox-4.1 If you prefer the older version of VirtualBox just change the version number such as: $sudo yum install virtualbox-3.2 $sudo yum install virtualbox-3.1 $sudo yum install virtualbox-3.0 $s...

This is the installation guide for installing Fedora 16 Desktop Editions. This installation guide is similar to my other post on Installing Fedora 16 on Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) . However, this guide has an addition section that discuss in details on creating and customizing hard disk partitions. I've tested this version of Fedora using a Core 2 Duo Intel based computer with 4GB in RAM. This computer also has a basic NVIDIA graphics card with at least 128MB of RAM. Getting Fedora 16 You can download the latest version of Fedora at  http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options .  Under Fedora 16 Desktop Edition 64-bit, click download now. You will download a disk image named "Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso" . Burn this image to a blank CD or DVD. Please search the web for how to burn a disc image to a CD/DVD. Hardware Requirement  The official hardware recommendations are: 400MHz Pentium Pro or better. Recommended RAM of 1152MB. Getting Help You ca...

Users of GNOME 3 should notice that if your computer has the suspend capabilities, the system will provide a "Suspend" option in the menu instead of "Shutdown" or "Hibernate" option. In order to show all available options, use the following command: sudo yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu After which you might want to log out and log in again for the options to take effects. *** End ***

Installing Beesu Open a terminal and install the following packages: $sudo yum install beesu $sudo yum install nautilus-beesu-manager Configuring Beesu After you have installed the packages above, use the following command to run Beesu Manager $nautilus-beesu-manager The Beesu configuration screen will appear as below:   You choose the options that you will use most often. The recommended settings are: Edit with gEdit Execute/Execute Application Files and Folders/Delete Selected Files Files and Folders/New File Here Files and Folders/New Folder Here Open Terminal Here Using Beesu To use Beesu, open Nautilus (Applications >> Accessories >> Files) and navigate to the file or folder you want to manage. Right-Click the mouse, select "Scripts >> beesu" and a list of options which you have configure earlier are available for you to select. Please note that some options worked on folders and some options worked on files while some worked on both. ...

Under your username, select System Settings >> User Accounts (as shown below).   Click unlock using root password and change the "Account type " from "Standard" to "Administrator" . *** End ***

There are two ways to open Nautilus as root. The first method is to use the sudo command. The second method is to install an utility software called beesu. Open Nautilus as Root using Sudo To use sudo, you need to be in Administrator Group and you need to open Nautilus from a terminal. Please refer to instructions on How to Add users to the Administrator Group in Fedora . Use the command: $sudo nautilus To run nautilus as root without locking the terminal, you need to run nautilus in the background. Use the command: $sudo nautilus &  For the second method, refer to this post on Install and Configure Beesu on Fedora . *** End ***

The best method to install Dropbox in Fedora 16 is to configure Dropbox repository and perform a yum install from the system terminal. Configure Dropbox Repository Create a file called dropbox.repo with the following: [Dropbox] name=Dropbox Repository baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/ gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc You can also download a copy from here . Place the file under /etc/yum.repos.d. Installing Dropbox Run yum install using the command: $sudo yum install nautilus-dropbox Note: If you encounter any error while downloading nautilus-dropbox. You might need to change the base url in the repo file from http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/ to http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/15/ Completing the Installation After installation is done, you need to run Dropbox (Applications >> Internet >> Dropbox) application to complete the installation and configure an user account. Automation You could also download a scr...

First, I want to share some bad news. Adobe no longer supports Adobe Air for Linux. You can get further explanation from Adobe from this post . Adobe will not provide any updates including security updates for Adobe Air. You could still install the latest version of Adobe Air (which is version 2.6) from the archive provided that the air applications you are running still supports Adobe Air version 2.6. Here is my suggestions. If you can live without Adobe Air and its apps, please do not install Adobe Air for Linux. I am more concern about not getting any security updates rather than features update. Please search for other alternatives. For TweetDeck user, you can install the Chrome version of TweetDeck instead of desktop version.  If you still need Adobe Air and its apps, you can follow the instructions below. I've installed Adobe Air for Linux (v2.6) and tested some air applications with it. It works fine for now. As I've mentioned earlier, I'm more concern about not...

You need to install Adobe Flash Player to play embedded video from YouTube and various websites. Adobe has made some significant improvement for Linux users. The most important is that Adobe provides a 64-bit version of flash player plugins. This made installation easier. Configuring YUM Repository File First you need to download the rpm file from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/   Select "Linux (64-bit)" and then select "Flash Player 11 for other Linux (YUM) 64-bit" as shown below. You will be downloading a file "adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm" into your download folder. Navigate to your download folder and issue the following command: $sudo rpm -ivh adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Then issue this command to import the keys: $sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux The above installation configures the YUM repository so that you could install Flash Player using YUM command. You could make sure that the reposit...