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Better late than never

alanlau — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:19:25 +0000

Holysmokes, this was one late post. I had a few things to take care of the last week so I couldn’t update my blog! I hope i can still get SOME marks for this RPM build lab here.
My last lab was uploaded on the 23rd but it was placed in the wrong category(I’m quite smart) so i doubt I got any marks for that too. Anyways, done with the chitchatting, lets get to the real stuff.

The first two commands I ran was

yum groupinstall "Fedora Packager"
yum install rpmlint yum-utils

These were 2 commands that just installed the rpm testing app and the packager.
So on with the work!
First thing I did was put some files into the SOURCES folder!

That was simple enough. next thing I did was get the spec folder set up

dsNext thing I did was run the RPM build!

Last thing I did was just run it through rpmlint really quick

Thats about it, now lets get some REAL work done!

Installing stuff from source

alanlau — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:50:46 +0000

Hi there! I’m just posting some info about me installing things from source. I’ve been testing this out for class and I want to show everyone what I did and how I did it.

First of all, I downloaded the packages that I wanted. In this test, I installed 2 different applications. One is called gawk, which is just a more advanced searching awk(command to search files), and the other one is a nifty little program called barcode. Barcode changes text info into barcodes and its quite an awesome program.

I’m only going to show the installation of the barcode program because the other one is installed exactly the same.

First of all, I downloaded the files.

This can be found here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/ (barcode)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ (gawk)

After I downloaded these files, I used tar to unzip them. Here is a screenshot of the command I used

After that , I moved into the new directory that it created, and ran the configure file

This allowed my computer to create the make file in order to install, I ran the make command and it outputted this:

And VOILA. It was installed. Just a simple tutorial on how to install from source on Fedora. This took me about 10 minutes to find the right packages, and another 3 minutes to install, its very simple! I tried other programs such as mailman, but it required me to create a new user on my fedora machine which I didnt want to do (I was lazy). So this caused a bit of trouble while I was trying to find the right program

Errrday I’m Posting.

alanlau — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:53:03 +0000

Hi Everyone!
This is my first post for the class SBR600. This class is one of the more interesting classes I do have, and I enjoy it a lot. I cannot wait until I get to actually blog about REAL work. My name is Alan Lau, and its my 6th semester here. I do school part time, and I enjoy it when i’m not at work. Where do I work? I work at Tigerdirect! It’s a great job to learn about the hardware aspect of computers, but I do enjoy the software just as much.

Seneca Wiki : http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:alanlau

Fedora Wiki : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:alanlau

LearnID: alau39

My IRC user is alanlau on freenode, and heres a small snippet of a conversation I had with a fellow student.

Hey there!
hello!
are you in SBR600 at seneca?
yeah, just testing out irc
how are you liking the class?
same here : ) , looking forward to the stuff we will be doing in that class. they all sound really interesting
how about you?
yeah, i just started working on my blog
some really cool stuff, can’t wait for raspberry pi

Since we are still on topic, I believe Raspberry Pi is one great idea. Our generation has slowed down in terms of development of software (my generation is full of users..lol) I’m sure the Raspberry Pi can help people in more poor countries start learning code, and allow more of us to learn more code.