Monthly archive February, 2010

Compiling Plasmoids from source in Fedora

Browsing through kde-look.org, I found a lot of plasmoids that I wanted to install but they were not available in the Fedora repositories. So I had to compile the plasmoids from source. After a bit of googling on the errors I was getting during compiling those plasmoids, I think the below command should do the...

Google Chrome Dev Version for RPM based Linux distro

Google Chrome has so far released only a Beta version of Google Chrome for Linux. But what if you want to use the Dev version but are using a RPM distro like Fedora or Opensuse. If you head to the Chrome release channels page, you will see that the Dev version is available only in...

[How To] Upgrade to KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12

If you want to use KDE 4.4 on Fedora but do not want to upgrade to Rawhide (it is not even Alpha yet), here is an easy way to upgrade your KDE version to 4.4 while on Fedora 12. The KDE packaging project is providing 4.4 packages for Fedora users. You just need to add...