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Virtualbox installation on Fedora Linux This short howto will guide a Fedora user with a steps on howto install VirtualBox on a Fedora linux system.
System: Fedora 14 Laughlin , i386
Kernel: 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686
Virtualbox Version: 3.2.12 for Linux
First, become a root and install all required prerequisites:
# yum install SDL make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel dkms
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By default your Fedora Linux system comes with a OpenJDK Java fetched from a standard Fedora repository. You may have some reasons to switch from OpenJDK to Oracle Java JRE. In order to achieve this firs download a java binary form oracle website:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
as a root user make jre binary executable:
# chmod +x jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin
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Rar archive utility is not avaiable on Fedora linux by default. If you are i need to extract / unrar rar archive files you can use official rarlab command line tool.
First download rar utility package for linux from rarlab.com/download.htm .
Extract gzip tarball:
tar xvzf rarlinux-4.0.b6.tar.gz
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If you decided to run more than one website on your Apache web server you would need to configure a VirtualHost based on the name or IP address. Here is some notes on how to achieve it. Here we assume that you have httpd package already installed on your system.
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Last time, we talked about custom kernels in Debian-based systems. This time we go to "the other side" and will also talk about customizations, namely how to customize packages on Fedora systems. For this you are not required to have any prior experience on the matter in order to build packages, but a will to learn and read manual pages or other resources is always welcome.
Our article will focus on Apache as packaged by Fedora, and what we will do is modify some of its build options in order to better fit our needs. After all, Linux and Open Source are all about customization, so why not get exactly what we want? With that being said, let's start with our tutorial.