There’s a few packages you might not have installed that you’ll need before php phpMyFAQ will install. On a basic, headless virtual machine, I don’t install a web server, php or databases by default. So I’ll start from there.

You might need to look at an RPM file and figure out what it needs, retrieve it by hand, and install the packages yourself.

Can anyone think of any other audio related packages I can get rid of? I don’t need audio, cd burning, flashy 3d graphics, printing, image or video playback/record capabilities on this machine at all.

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.

I can’t figure out how to make yum ignore dependencies and I can’t find it by googling either. The yum-allowdowngrade package doesn’t do what I expected it to do. So I’ll just have to ignore yum for now and force rpm to do the job.

Oooo an irc client… i hate the state that most of the sugar software is in. I just feel like it’s all forced, I mean what’s the big deal anyway? Is it just my XO that’s slow and boring? I’m about to put Linux on the XO, and sugar on a regular Intel desktop. How backwards is that?! Maybe sugar will be usable on a real machine.

This howto will get bugzilla with ALL of the optional modules installed on Fedora 10. If you just want a barebones bugzilla up and running, you might want to read the whole thing and then just look for the required parts. Otherwise, you can follow me through the install and end up with all the bells and whistles.

The checksetup.pl script will tell you what you’re missing and what you need to install to get bugzilla up and running. But the problem is it pushes you to use perl’s package management to build the perl modules which may or may not work. I think it’s best to use YUM to install and manage all of your packages and not to mix and match both. This will help to avoid conflicting packages and seemingly random complaints of a package missing when it’s not.

Fedora 8 has just reached the end of support. If you insist on doing a yum upgrade instead of just saving your home partition and reinstalling the rest, here’s how to do the upgrade. It might help if you keep your fingers crossed while doing all the typing.
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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 …