If you don’t know what xdotool is then this post is not for you… Although many distros come with a packaged xdotool it is usually pretty old version (e.g. the one that comes wiht FC15 does not have the selectwindow command!) so you will most likely want to get the source tarball and install that. […]
Package Managers
Pages related to the various package (software) managers – RPM, yum apt-get, pkg-config…
How to write an ISO image with XCDRoast…
It may sound like a dumb question, since X-CD-Roast is a GUI tool for writing files and images, but it’s logic is so user-unfriendly and unnatural that in reality it’s not at all simple to create a CD or DVD from ISO using this app. Ok, so how do you write an ISO image with […]
Can’t play MP3s in Fedora 9…
If you’ve installed Fedora Core 9 you won’t be able to play your MP3 audio files out of the box. I suppose some other Fedora versions also have this “feature”. I won’t go here into a lengthy explanation as to why exactly FC9 does not play mp3 – Fedora actually handles that quite good (the […]
What files comprise an RPM package? Which package a file belongs to?
If you want to find the relationship between files on your system and RPM packages (which one owns/belongs-to which) then this page will be of help to you. 1. Contents of an RPM package 1.1.1. This RPM command will show you the contents of a package which is already installed on your system: rpm -ql […]