Chitlesh Goorah

If you want to use the yum repository for Mono 1.0.6 (stable), add the following lines to your /etc/yum.conf:

[mono-stable]
name=Mono – Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl=http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0.6/fedora-3-i386/
gpgcheck=0

yum install Mono*

To install acroread plugin in firefox:

Download here:
#cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
#ln -s /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

chitlesh(Bash)[1]$echo $PS1

u(W)[33[1;31m][[33[0;31m]j[33[1;31m]][33[1;37m]$

chitlesh(Bash)[1]$echo $PROMPT_COMMAND

echo -ne “33]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}07”

KInstaller is an application to simplify the compilation and installation of KDE programs shipped as tar packages. In fact KInstaller is an easy to use graphical frontend to the ‘configure; make; make install’ steps.

Troubleshooting:

C++ preprocessor error
Problem: configure: error: C++ preprocessor “/lib/cpp” fails sanity check
Solution: # yum install gcc-c++

KDE: QT error
Problem: configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2)
Solution: # yum install qt-devel

KDE: missing headers
Problem:

checking for KDE… configure: error:
in the prefix, you’ve chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

Solution: #yum install kdelibs-devel

Convert Images to pdf with ImageMagick
To convert images to pdf:
$ convert *.png mypictures.pdf
reverse action:
$ convert mypictures.pdf Image_%03.png

For updating Kde to 3.4.1 via apt or synaptic.
#su
#gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add these lines

rpm ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/ kde-redhat/fedora/3 stable testing
rpm ftp://apt.uk.kde-redhat.org/pub/apt/ kde-redhat/fedora/3 stable testing
rpm ftp://apt.us.kde-redhat.org/linux/kde-redhat/apt/ kde-redhat/fedora/3 stable testing

Gpg-key

# rpm –import http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

Now you have the kdebase 3.4 for fc3