Upgrade Fedora 18 ke Fedora 19 otomatis dengan FedUp

Bagi anda yang ingin melakukan upgrade dari Fedora 18 ke Fedora 19, anda bisa menggunakan aplikasi FedUp. Keunggulan melakukan upgrade Fedora dengan FedUp ini adalah lebih mudah dan lebih sederhana dibanding upgrade melalui instalasi seperti biasa (saya selalu gagal melakukan upgrade). 

Dengan FedUp, system akan otomatis melakukan upgrade Fedora tanpa perlu banyak setting sana sini. Saran saya, selalu lakukan backup data anda terlebih dahulu sebelum melakukan upgrade Fedora dengan FedUp ini. 

Cara upgrade Fedora 18 ke Fedora 19 dengan FedUp

1. Update system

Login sebagai root terlebih dahulu kemudian lakukan update Fedora 18 anda. Jalankan perintah-perintah berikut ini di Terminal.

su -i

yum update

2. Reboot Fedora 18

reboot

3. Install FedUp

yum install fedup

4. Upgrade dengan FedUp

fedup-cli --network 19 --debuglog /root/fedup.debug.log

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How to install VirtualBox 4.3 on Fedora 19

This tutorial will show you how to install VirtualBox 4.3 on Fedora 19. VirtualBox is a free, rich features and powerful virtualization software for Linux. We can power up multiple operating systems on a single Fedora host. Install Virtualbox 4.3 on Fedora 19 is pretty easy. Please read the following steps to install VirtualBox 4.3 on Fedora 19. 

First, we need to install wget package since Fedora 19 does not include wget. Execute this command as root on Terminal/Konsole

yum install wget

Now, cd to /etc/yum.repos.d

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

yum install VirtualBox-4.3

Fedora will download and install VirtualBox automatically. Simply wait until the download process is finished.

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How to configure RPMFusion repository on Fedora 19

RPMFusion contains various software and packages for Fedora based system. By default, Fedora does not have this rpmfusion repository installed. So we need to configure it manually. Here I want to show you how to configure RPMFusion repository on Fedora 19. There are two ways to do this and choose one suit for you.

1. Graphical ways

Click the following links to download the rpmfusion configuration package. When asked, select to open with Fedora package installer. 

• RPM Fusion free for Fedora 19
• RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 19

Once finished, rpmfusion should be activated automatically.

2. Command line

If you choose to use command line to configure rpmfusion on Fedora 19, do the following on Terminal as root.

su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

Press y to confirm the installation and in few seconds, your rpmfusion should be enabled.

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How to check the SSH status on Fedora 19

SSH provides a secure network connection to a Linux system. On Fedora, we can easily start, stop the sshd status via command line. Here I want to show you how to check the status of the ssh server on Fedora 19.
Open Terminal and type the following commands

su
service sshd status

If your ssh server is running, you will get the following output on Terminal

[root@localhost liveuser]# service sshd status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  sshd.service
sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2013-10-27 03:44:08 EDT; 5s ago
  Process: 2986 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sshd-keygen (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 3009 (sshd)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/sshd.service
           └─3009 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
Oct 27 03:44:08 localhost sshd-keygen[2986]: Generating SSH2 RSA host key: [...]
Oct 27 03:44:08 localhost sshd-keygen[2986]: Generating SSH1 RSA host key: [...]
Oct 27 03:44:08 localhost systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH server daemon.
Oct 27 03:44:09 localhost sshd[3009]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Oct 27 03:44:09 localhost sshd[3009]: Server listening on :: port 22.

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Download Virtualbox 4.3 for Fedora 19

The new version of VirtualBox 4.3 is now available for Linux. Here we provide the direct download link for the new VirtualBox 4.3 for Fedora 19 system. VirtualBox is a virtualization software that allows us to run multiple operating systems on a single host simultaneously. The new VirtualBox 4.3 has many improved features. 

Download VirtualBox 4.3 for Fedora 19 host:

• 32 bit
• 64 bit

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How to install Cinnamon Desktop on Fedora 18

Fedora is a flexible Linux distribution. Even you've downloaded and installed the Gnome or KDE version, you still be able to install another Desktop environment on it. On this tutorial I am going to show you how to install Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 18. At the end, you will be able to choose which desktop to login to. It won't affect your currently installed applications and settings. 

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How to install XBMC on Fedora 18

XBMC is my favorite multimedia player on any Linux that I am using. XBMC has many features,, can play almost any kind of audio and video files, has an intuitive interface and can be used as a media center like Windows Media Center. Installing XBMC is pretty simple but we need to make sure that our Fedora has RPMFusion repository installed on it. Please read my previous tutorial to enable RPMFusion on Fedora 18.

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How to enable RPMFusion repository on Fedora 18

Fedora 19 is now available but I still uses Fedora 18 on my laptop. Anyway this tutorial is going to show you how to enable RPMFusion repository on Fedora 18. RPMFusion repository provides many useful applications and packages for Fedora and RPM based Linux. See how to enable RPMFusion on Fedora 18 below.

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