/tags/fedora/ Recent content in Fedora on Saleem Ansari Hugo -- gohugo.io en (c) 2024 Saleem Ansari Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/07/30/contiuned-juniper-networks-vpn-from-fedora-64bit/ Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/07/30/contiuned-juniper-networks-vpn-from-fedora-64bit/ This post is the continuation of my earlier post about Juniper VPN. In the earlier post, I connected to VPN using a login/password/certification combination. Now I also managed to use the ncui tool for the connection which is based on a cookie value and a certificate. I wasn’t able to connect to this configuration using the method in my previous post. $ ./ncui -h vpn.example.com -c DSID="YOUR_DSID_COOKIE" -f vpn.example.com-cert.der Password: <ENTER SUDO PASSWORD HERE> Here, first you need to login to your vpn domain from a web-browser. /2013/07/21/setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-19-is-a-lot-of-work/ Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/07/21/setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-19-is-a-lot-of-work/ I wanted to experiment with creating a Fedora 19 compute node on Fedora 19 + OpenStack. However it seems there are a bunch of issues which need to be fixed. The issues and solutions are already recorded by many people. I list the highlights: I am recording the errors, commands and references in the following gist on github.com: openstack-fedora19.md EDIT: Finally I managed to complete the setup. Now its time to launch some VMs. /2013/07/20/emacs-fullscreen-and-fedora-19/ Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/07/20/emacs-fullscreen-and-fedora-19/ I was using fullscreen.el for so long but now that doesn’t seem to work on Fedora 19 / GNOME 3.8.1. What to do? Following are the steps I did for now. First install wmctrl: $ sudo yum install wmctrl Now add following code to your ~/.emacs configuration file: (defun switch-full-screen () (interactive) (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -btoggle,fullscreen")) (global-set-key [f11] 'switch-full-screen) Restart Emacs and press F11. Thats it! /2013/07/19/extract-text-from-from-multi-page-pdf-with-only-images/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/07/19/extract-text-from-from-multi-page-pdf-with-only-images/ Sometimes there are only images in a PDF. In such cases you can not select text to copy / paste or just for reference. To extract text from an Image or a PDF containing only images, I used Tesseract OCR Engine and Ghostscript. I am running Fedora 19 at the moment, however these steps should apply to an older version of Fedora or Ubuntu. ( I believe this can be done on Windows as well ). /2013/07/04/juniper-networks-vpn-from-fedora-17-x86_64/ Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/07/04/juniper-networks-vpn-from-fedora-17-x86_64/ I had to use Juniper VPN but apparently it doesn’t work well from Linux machines. To complicate the matter even more the underlying VPN software is 32 bit, but I am running a 64bit OS. I have outlined the setup steps here: Although all these steps are specifically for Fedora 17/18 x86_64 bit OS, it should be easy to connect from Ubuntu machines too. I hope it helps you. EDIT: /2013/05/14/setting-up-nat-and-masquerade-for-sharing-usb-tether-connection-over-lan/ Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/05/14/setting-up-nat-and-masquerade-for-sharing-usb-tether-connection-over-lan/ I the only source of Internet connection I have currently is my phone. I wanted to share this network with other systems, via a lan/wireless router. So here is a basic setup: Android Phone with USB Tethering Laptop ( Fedora 18 ) Wireless Router with Lan A desktop machine ( Fedora 17 ) Setting up Internet gateway: Laptop + Android Phone I connected Android Phone via USB cable to the laptop and enabled USB thether, so I have a usb device /dev/usb0. /2013/02/22/where-the-heck-did-agave-go-from-fedora.../ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/02/22/where-the-heck-did-agave-go-from-fedora.../ Where the heck did agave go from Fedora 17 repos? Yes I am asking the same question already been asked in fedora forum [1]. Apparently it doesn’t [2] have any maintainer hence no build for Fedora 17. [1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=276162 [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/agave [3] http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ /2013/02/20/scala-script-tool-seems-to-be-broken-fedora-17/ Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /2013/02/20/scala-script-tool-seems-to-be-broken-fedora-17/ I am running Scala on Fedora 17 and I seem to face a problem. I created a /tmp/hello.scala file, as follows: println("Hello world") This works just fine if I run it on Ubuntu 12.04 i.e. it prints Hello world. However, when I try to run it on Fedora, I don’t get any output and the script keeps waiting forever. So I tried to inspect what’s happening here: $ bash -x scala /tmp/hello. /2011/11/10/fudcon.in-online-face-of-fudcon-pune-2011/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/11/10/fudcon.in-online-face-of-fudcon-pune-2011/ My involvement with FUDCon Pune 2011 started since the initial days of its planning. I wasn’t much involved until I took the task of managing a website for the event. My idea was to have a fully dynamic website where users could login, submit talks, vote for talks and we could manage the content all in a single website. The plan is available here. After a few initial discussion about FUDCon websites here and there, Rahul arranged for a domain fudcon. /2011/10/18/fudcon-pune-6-more-days-for-submission-of-talks/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/10/18/fudcon-pune-6-more-days-for-submission-of-talks/ As of today over 100 delegates have already signed up for the event and 33 proposed sessions registered with us already. FUDCon Pune is an international event and we have speakers from many parts of the world. We are also listed on opensource.com now! Submission Deadline - Midnight, 23rd of October, 2011 IST. 6 more days to go! Reference: http://fudcon.in/content/fudcon-pune-pacing /2011/10/14/fudcon-pune-2011/ Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/10/14/fudcon-pune-2011/ We managed to pull off the event website for FUDCon Pune 2011. This website has successfully been used for organizing a Fedora Activity Day i.e. FAD - II. However its primary motive is to manage the event FUDCon Pune 2011. Needless to mention, this website is built in collaborative fashion, using Free and Open Source software. Based on COD - a Drupal based Conference Ogranizing Distribution, we added extra modules for our needs. /2011/10/14/yay-i-am-going-to-fudcon-pune-2011.../ Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/10/14/yay-i-am-going-to-fudcon-pune-2011.../ Yay! I am going to FUDCon Pune 2011! /2011/02/25/pylucene-on-fedora-14/ Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /2011/02/25/pylucene-on-fedora-14/ I couldn’t install pylucene simply by following command: yum install pylucene Nor did following work: easy_install pylucene Nor the following :-( pip-python install pylucene So. I had to build it myself. Here, I list those steps: Install JCC $ JCC_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64 pip-python install jcc Download pylucene pylucene wget -c http://apache.mirrors.pair.com//lucene/pylucene/pylucene-2.4.1-1-src.tar.gz tar zxf pylucene-2.4.1-1-src.tar.gz cd pylucene-2.4.1-1 Build and install http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/documentation/install.html pushd jcc # edit setup.py to match your environment JCC_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64 python setup.py build` sudo python setup. /2010/12/20/days-of-foss.in-2010/ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 /2010/12/20/days-of-foss.in-2010/ http://foss.in/ I was looking at content faces. They all had made it. Some laughing, some teasing, some pondering and recollecting the past - greeting each other with a hearty welcome “Hi!”. And there some were observing tenderly the atmosphere which was animate instantly, as everyone from far off places finally arrived at FOSS.IN 2010 service apartment. Rahul had reached the airport earlier than us and we met him there. We - I, Shreyank, Siddhesh, Amit, Rahul, Neependra and Anand - were at the airport three hours ago. /2010/06/04/fad-fedora-activity-day/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 /2010/06/04/fad-fedora-activity-day/ FAD - Fedora Activity Day I was excited to know what it would be like but I had no clue as it was one of my first such gathering in Fedora Community. Day 1 I reached there at 10:00am feeling that I would be just on time but to my surprise I was an hour late. I snapped into the room and took a seat quietly. What a beginning! Autotools workshop was in progress.