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6.23.2015

Upgrading from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20

This morning I upgraded from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20.

One of the reasons is that I see updates of software and the current minimum to find RPM package files is 20.

The other is a problem that I've been having with dispcalGUI 3.0.0/3.0.1 ever since I upgraded to F19 on June 14th. The 0install programme complains that the python software library is not working together or installed properly or something like that.

When I updated to 20 today, some functionality was increased in Gnome-Dock. Prior to 20 the Calendar graphic would remain static and not update the 'date card'. Now it does. The other applet I have on the Dock is a Moon Phase. It didn't show any future Moon phase dates. However in Fedora 20 both these applets now work as advertised.

I temporarily lost audio output, but doing a search led me to have to reinstall the pulseaudio driver, as described here in Comment #24:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046153

So I did:

sudo yum reinstall alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

Rebooted, and that did the trick


I found that Fedora 19 was snappier than 18, and that 20 is about on par with 18 in terms of speed.

My hardware is:
  • Lenovo T61
  • 2 GB RAM
  • WD Scorpion 160 GB SATA DASD
  • ext4 filesystem

6.14.2015

Upgrading from Fedora 18 to 19

Last night I upgraded my 2 1/2 yr. Fedora 18 laptop by typing:

fedup --network 19

The process took about 3 hrs. and after that I got a much faster system  because it must have cleaned out a lot of junk that I built up since February 2013.

What works:
  • MATE 1.6.3
What doesn't work (for me):
  • Cinnamon (either)
  • dispcalGUI 3.0.1
What's better:
  •   Evince / Document Viewer

6.06.2015

Adobe InDesign CS2 in Linux

A couple of years ago, Adobe decided to make freely available and freely usable its CS2 suite, which was originally released in 2005.

Although there are quite excellent similar programmes that run in Linux for photo editing - GIMP, and vector graphics in Inkscape, and desktop publishing in Scribus ... the last one, Scribus, the interface takes more getting used to because it was just designed differently.

So to get Adobe InDesign CS2 working in Linux, you need the following:
  1. Linux OS (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, etc...)
  2. WINE or Play on Linux (I used WINE 1.61)
  3. A Copy of Adobe InDesign CS2 (Windows)
I'm gonna leave the first two steps for you to have ready, and concentrate on Step 3, getting and installing InDesign CS2:
  1. On the Adobe website is a whole page, with CS2 applications and their corresponding Serial #s, which you'll need to enter in order for the programme to load.
  2. Find the InDesign CS2 for Windows (not Mac) .exe file. It's about 700 megabytes, and download it to your hard disk.
  3. Use WINE Config and click on the [Install...] button.
  4. Locate the InDesignCS2.exe file and click on it.
  5. During the install process, copy/paste the serial # from the web page and paste it into the serial # box on the screen.