Archive for January, 2010
What is the best alternative to WinZip
Jan 18th
If you are tired of commerical software WinZip, The best free software alternative to WinZip is 7-zip.
In fact 7-zip is better than WinZip as it supports more formats like BZIP2, RPM etc along with its own format 7z.
7-zip in Windows
The 7-zip can create archives of following formats.
- 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
The 7-zip application can unzip following formats
- 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
This is best compatible with UNIX flavours as it supports the archives seen on UNIX systems like GZIP, TAR, BZIP2, More >
How to install VLC Media Player on Fedora
Jan 17th
Fedora doesn’t distribute VLC media player as part its core and updates. So you need download rpms from rpmfusion.org as shown below.
[root@techpulp ~]# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm [root@techpulp ~]# yum install -y vlc [root@techpulp ~]# yum install -y mozilla-vlc
Off the above, installing mozilla-vlc is optional as it installs a browser plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox Browser.
How to retain RPMs downloaded by yum
Jan 16th
Generally yum deletes all RPMs it downloads right after installing them. If you want to save Internet bandwidth and have multiple systems to be updated, you can make yum to keep the RPMs it downloads.
The highlighted line in /etc/yum.conf file can be edited to enable yum keep the cache of RPMs.
[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum #keepcache=0 keepcache=1 ..
The “keepcache=1” tells yum to not remoe downloaded RPMs. But where are those downloaded RPMS? You can see “cachedir” line in /etc/yum.conf and that is the base directory where yum keeps the RPMs. In this case the cache directory is “/var/cache/yum“.
You can use “find” command as shown below More >
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