You need to download GNS3 and Dynamips. For GNS3 you would need to install PyQt4 and telnet which are not present in the standard F17 installation. After it’s installed, GNS3 itself ca be unpacked.
yum -y install PyQt4 telnet
tar -xjf GNS3-0.8.3.1-src.tar.bz2
cd GNS3-0.8.3.1-src/
python2.7 setup.py build
sudo python2.7 setup.py setup
For linking GNS3 and dynamips you have to have the latter installed. Not an easy task on F17. You can’t just yum install dynamips, because it requires a legacy library libpcap.so.0.9 which couldn’t be found by myself.
[root@hp opt]# yum install dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Examining dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm: dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386
Marking dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dynamips.i386 0:0.2.8RC2-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libpcap.so.0.9 for package: dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386 (/dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386)
Requires: libpcap.so.0.9
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
But you could do the installation manually, and add symlink to the legacy lib just to be on a safe side
rpm -i --nodeps dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm
ln -s /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.2.1 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9
Touchpad vertical scroll:
in file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
EndSection
Option “VertEdgeScroll” “1” – adds vertical scrolling
Restart X to take effect.
Adding keyboard layouts:
In file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-setup-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:num,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
Define layouts to be used
Option “XkbLayout” “us,ru”
Define switching keys:
Option “XkbOptions” “grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:num,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp”
grp – key to switch
grp_led – Keyboard LED to highlight a layout
terminate – shortct to kill X
Restart X to take effect.
Fedora did a thing I hated in Windows. It collected enough system files to flood my root partition over the years of usage.
[root@hp ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 15G 14G 403M 98% /
udev 996M 316K 996M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1004M 1.5M 1003M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 15G 14G 403M 98% /
/dev/sda1 485M 166M 294M 37% /boot
/dev/mapper/luks-6e55a54f-c3c6-45d9-99d3-a6d8015b2baa
97G 16G 76G 18% /home
/dev/sda6 117G 105G 5.9G 95% /home/t1/media
Top space consumers are:
[root@hp ~]# du -sh /*
156M /boot
370M /lib
7.3G /usr
5.3G /var
[root@hp ~]# du -sh /usr/*
550M /usr/bin
1.2G /usr/lib
1.9G /usr/lib64
3.4G /usr/share
[root@hp ~]# du -sh /var/*
3.9G /var/cache
890M /var/lib
407M /var/spool
[root@hp ~]# du -sh /var/cache/*
1.1G /var/cache/abrt-di
2.8G /var/cache/yum
A workaround:
[root@hp ~]# rm -rf /var/spool/abrt/*
[root@hp ~]# rm -rf /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/*
[root@hp ~]# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
[root@hp ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 15G 9.3G 4.5G 68% /
Enough for preupgrade now!
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Problem: My touchpad’s scroll did not work under Fedora 11’s KDE. Also, I did not have any touch pad settings in Control Manager
Cause: By default, KDE4 under fedora 11 is missing touchpad settings package.
Solution: install kcm_touchpad package.
Since I moved to Fedora 10, I noticed Firefox became noticeably slower than before. Start-up was taking about 30 seconds. Even right click menu appearance had noticeable delay. I suspected plug-ins. I minimized amount of my plug-ins twice. It didn’t help.
After I suspected history and private data database. I tried to clean up history manually, but it did not decrease its size. Deleted entries were just marked as deleted, but kept remain in database. There was the last hope – trying to delete places.sqlite file manually. I had a hope that Firefox checks existence of database and recreates it in case of absence. And yes – it does it! It increased starting speed for about 5 seconds.
To eliminate large-history-problem in the future, I set a limit on it. You just need to go to about:config page and set a search filter to browser.history. Th following values need to be changed:
browser.history_expire_days;
browser.history_expire_days_min;
browser.history_expire_sites;
Personally, I set them to 30, 15 and 5000 accordingly. You may choose another values.
My last concern was language packs. There are all possible language packs installed and enabled by default in fedora’s Firefox. I disabled them all (a lot of clicking), except Russian and English ones. Miracle! Firefox starts up several times faster! Now it takes about 7 seconds only!
