Howtos

How to install World of Padman in Fedora 14

Submitted by Richard on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 01:27

This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to install World of Padman on a Fedora 14. World of Padman is cartoon-style, first person shooter game where players must take on opponents across wide variety of giant maps. Its a free, colorful, funny and awesome game.
To install World of Padman, open up your terminal and type the below command as root.

yum -y install worldofpadman

How to install Urban Terror in Fedora 14

Submitted by Richard on Mon, 08/01/2011 - 16:02

Urban terror is a great FREE FPS Game with low system requirements, it features realistic game play similar to counter strike and works flawlessly in Linux. Its easy to install, its available in the repository so installation in Fedora is very easy, you just need to type one command.
This installation tutorial is intended for Fedora 14. To install Urban Terror, open up your terminal and type the below command as root.

yum -y install urbanterror

How to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14 (64-bit)

Submitted by Richard on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 23:04

This tutorial is for the installation of Oracle Java Runtime Environment in 64-bit Fedora systems. The installation process is slightly different from the 32-bit.

1. Install these libraries that needed by Java.

yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33

2. Go to the site below and grab the latest version of Java Runtime Environment.
http://java.com/en/

IMPORTANT: Make sure to download only the "Linux x64 RPM *".

3. After downloading the file, make it executable and install.

How to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14

Submitted by Richard on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 17:44

Fedora 14 comes with the open source Java called OpenJDK which is working fine, but if you have issues on it or its not working for whatever reason and you want to install the original Java from Oracle, just follow the tutorial below.

This is a straightforward tutorial on how to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment in Fedora 14.

1. Install these libraries that needed by Java.
Open up your terminal and run this command.

yum -y install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33

How to enable 1:1 NAT in Iptables

Submitted by Richard on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 07:32

1:1 NAT maps a single Public IP Address to one of your computer within your local area network (LAN).
Unlike port forwarding, 1:1 NAT forwards all ports from one external IP to one internal IP.

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 192.168.1.2 -j SNAT --to-source 83.229.64.2
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d 83.229.64.2 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2
iptables -A FORWARD -s 83.229.64.2 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.1.2 -j ACCEPT

How to enable Port Forwarding in Iptables

Submitted by Richard on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 07:25

What is Port Forwarding

Port forwarding allows remote computers, for example, computers on the Internet, to connect to a specific computer or service within a private local area network (LAN).

How to install and configure VNC in Fedora 12

Submitted by Richard on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 00:33

Open up your terminal and install tigervnc via yum.
Type this command in your terminal:

yum -y install tigervnc tigervnc-server

Edit the VNC configuration file

vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

and append these lines:

VNCSERVERS="1:user"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 800x600 -depth 16"

Where VNCSERVERS= is for configuring the username.

How to fix X11 Forwarding in CentOS 5

Submitted by Richard on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 19:27

This tutorial describes how to fix the ssh X11 forwarding problem in CentOS 5.5 server.

Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: Failed to open display:

Make sure that the "xorg-x11-xauth" is also installed in your system. If not, this comm

yum -y install xorg-x11-xauth

Ensure that "X11Forwarding" is enabled in your ssh server configuration file. Edit the file "/etc/ssh/sshd_config".

How to disable IPV6 in Fedora 12 and CentOS 5.5

Submitted by Richard on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 23:44

This is a quick tutorial on disabling IPV6 in Fedora 12 and CentOS 5.5

echo -e "install ipv6 /bin/true\nblacklist ipv6" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ipv6.conf

Stop ip6tables service and disable it from starting automatically at system boot.

service ip6tables stop
chkconfig ip6tables off

How to delete data inside MySQL table

Submitted by Richard on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 23:30

If you want to delete a record from any MySQL table then you can use the delete command. The delete command is very similar to the update command.

delete from table where where_condition;

The delete statement deletes rows from a table.
The table is the table name.
The where clause specifies the conditions that identify which rows to delete.

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