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Fedora Core 10 - Teaching Me To Put My Foot In My Mouth

Friday, December 5, 2008 12:00:48 AM

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So far, everything about Core 10 has surpassed all my expectations. I knew boot times would be lower, but I couldn't imagine my system being up in less than three quarters of a minute, especially when I have to enter two encryption passwords (Dell's Hard Disk password, and software level encryption password). Since I've mentioned encryption, I should mention, the Fedora team has come a long way on this aspect. Still using the Anaconda installer as always, there is an option to encrypt partitions now, I LOVE it. XFS is an option for partition formats, which as most know, is not only fast and stable, but also provides the most space on a hard disk, another bonus feature of XFS is that when you "delete" a file, rather than send it to the "trash" you actually get that space back as useful space. Sorry, this blog isn't about XFS though, it's about Core 10. I'm following a nice install guide as I write this (sadly from FireFox haven't installed Opera back YET). The guide is located here: http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/125/26/ I'm only mentioning it because a Google search for me turned up very little, and it was only by chance I found the guide. I'm hoping this will help others as well. I still recommend to trash SELinux. As far as packages breaking due to lack of dependencies, that issue seems to have finally cleared up. Also on a positive note for Core 10, the boot screen is simply beautiful. I also love the desktop wallpaper. I'm still not a fan of the default theme (I'm using Nimbus now). I'm not sure why, but I love the stability of Linux, with the look of Solaris, sue me. Well ladies and gents, I'm happy to report that, for the time being, I have a new desktop distro - Core 10. If you're looking for a replacement to Windows or Mac, I recommend you give this Distro a shot, as always, it's still free.

Happy Hacking -
PiklesOnFire

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Comments

Unregistered user # Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:29:31 AM

Anonymous writes: I'm about to install Fedora 10 tonight and I really like the nimbus theme as well. Do you know if there is an rpm for it or did you just download and build from source? Great post btw!

PiklesOnFire # Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:26:23 AM

I built it from source for Fedora, I'm now running Intrepid though.
I'm going to try and go back to Core 10, see if maybe I can figure out what some of the bugs were, only because I have a new love of Core 10.

Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the question :]

Happy Hacking,
PiklesOnFire

Unregistered user # Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:56:43 PM

Anonymous writes: Don't suppose you ran into this issue during ./configure: checking for intltool >= 0.23... awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `./intltool-update.in' for reading (No such file or directory) I installed the latest intltool from yum but that file still doesn't exist anywhere in the file system (did a 'find . -name "intltool-update.in"' from /"). Did you encounter this with nimbus (0.0.17)? Unfortunately the only answer I found on goolge was to create symlinks to the actual file in /usr/share, but as I said, the file is no where to be found in my filesystem...

PiklesOnFire # Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:50:11 PM

I did as well, sorry I should probably add that to the post about compiling the latest nimbus theme.

a workaround for it is:

ln -s /usr/share/intltool/intltool-update.in intltool-update.in
ln -s /usr/share/intltool/intltool-extract.in intltool-extract.in
ln -s /usr/share/intltool/intltool-merge.in intltool-merge.in

also, you need to have icon-naming-utils installed

Happy Hacking
PiklesOnFire

Unregistered user # Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:13:56 PM

Anonymous writes: Yeah, that's the answer I found on google but unfortunately I can't create the symlinks because the files don't exist to begin with. $ ls -l /usr/share/intltool total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6897 2008-10-19 10:08 Makefile.in.in I have intltool installed as well as icon-naming-utils. Is there some other package I need to install to get those three .in files?

PiklesOnFire # Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:04:29 PM

I'm sorry reader.
The intltool-update.in can be found here:
https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/browser/intltool-update.in

The intltool-extract.in is located here:
https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/browser/intltool-extract.in

and lastly the intltool-merge.in is here:
https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/browser/intltool-merge.in

Using those files, and placing them where they should be, it worked for me.

If you have any other issues, please continue posting, I'm always happy to help in any way I can (which has been backtracking my steps).

Once you get it successfully compiled, please report so here, I'll write a full guide for it step by step.

Happy Hacking
PiklesOnFire

Unregistered user # Friday, December 12, 2008 3:44:56 AM

Anonymous writes: The files in the links you provided were empty files. However, I downloaded the source for intltool 0.40.5 and it had the three files in it. I copied the files to the nimbus directory and then changed the $version variable in all three files from "@VERSION@" to "0.40.5". I've now made it past that point in ./configure but now it's complaining that I don't have gtk+ 2.0.0 or greater. I have gtk+ 2.14.4 so the configure script must not be looking for the libs in the correct directory.

Unregistered user # Friday, December 12, 2008 4:10:30 AM

Anonymous writes: UPDATE ------ installed gtk2-devel and configure finally succeeded. make is having issues with the $PACKAGE variable in the three intltool*.in files now so i'll have to see if I can track down what the value of that variable should be.

Unregistered user # Friday, December 12, 2008 4:27:10 AM

Anonymous writes: UPDATE #2 --------- set $PACKAGE = "intltool" seems to have worked... however... after running make install and rebooting I still don't have an option for the nimbus theme *argh* :/

PiklesOnFire # Friday, December 12, 2008 6:11:52 AM

Hmmm - have a look at this link:

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=908149

it seems if you can locate the original files, and place them where gnome expects them, you'll get the option.

like I said before, I'm going to write a full blown guide on how to do this, to save other users the troubles.

btw, if you're into a hardcore linux distro, try Arch Linux out in a virtual environment. It's pretty sweet :]

~ PiklesOnFire

Unregistered user # Friday, December 12, 2008 2:32:33 PM

Anonymous writes: Hey, thanks for the link and all the helpful info - I think a guide for nimbus in fedora would be appreciated by many users as it is a killer theme :) I've been wanting to try Arch for a while now but am going to wait until my linux skills are better. I've been using Ubuntu since version 5.04 and as such I was never forced to learn a whole lot about linux since Ubuntu has a package for pretty much everything. That's actually why I decided to give fedora a try. I wanted to play around with an rpm based system + build from source and manually configure stuff. I'll probably throw openSUSE 11.1 on when it's out on the 18th and give it a whirl as well. Thanks again!

PiklesOnFire # Friday, December 12, 2008 10:41:26 PM

OpenSuse still isn't nearly as stable as it should be for a release that's hitting in less than a week.
I'm afraid they'll be pushing it back, or pushing out something that's not quite ready.

But Arch is even seamless about building from source, that's why I suggested try it in a virtual though, so you won't hose your system that you have now, in case you aren't ready for it. But, it has an amazing wiki to help with any questions you might have, it also has more packages than I've seen in most any other distro.

Unregistered user # Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:54:03 AM

Anonymous writes: btw, the info in the cybertechhelp link you provided worked like a charm. Nimbus is up and running and looking great!

PiklesOnFire # Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:28:49 AM

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that did the trick.

Unregistered user # Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:08:18 AM

Anonymous writes: For those who speaks spanish the installation guide: http://www.linuxcds.com.ar/content/guia-para-la-instalacion-de-fedora-core-10