Here’s one very specific way to temporarily remove an RPM package where I think I want it gone, but I want to test to see how the system reacts when the package is completely removed. I dont’ want to just remove it because i’ve made some changes to the config files and perhaps I’ve spliced in a few custom binaries here and there, so it’s really iffy.

Install Bro – Network-based Intrusion Detection, on Fedora or Ubuntu. Bro will get installed in /usr/local/bro/ by default, unless you specified a prefix in configure as I did. I also created a bro user and group to own everything and did the make as that bro user.

How to install Qingy on Fedora. This will work on Fedora 8, Fedora 9, or Fedora 10. It’s all the same, so this will apply to all Fedora versions with directfb and directfb-devel in the repository. If you don’t find them in the repos, just build them from source too.

shc is the only tool i’ve found that will compile scripts so idle hands won’t tamper with your bash shell scripts. Yes, I know I could just use permissions to keep people from reading them and it’s easy to reverse engineer the binary code, but I look at it like …

This is how-to-Install 3D desktop effects on a vanilla Fedora 10 installation (I tried this on a freshly installed Fedora 10, installed from DVD). Basically all you need to do is get 3d hardware acceleration enabled for your video card and then install the fusion-icon package and reboot. In the past this was easier said than done.

You want to install a special version of openssl that’s not the latest release, but some other app requires that specific one — how do you do it?
Lets assume you don’t have the right repository installed, and you need to set that up first.  If you’re looking for some package …