Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Fedora – RedHat

As I wished to add a little NextCloud installation to my small corporate server I used its web installer that quaralled that PHP 7.2 is too old. I was used to Debian way of handling multiple versions of a package (having the major version in the package name). These notes on server-world.info reminded me dnf…

Progressively un-centoing

I got slightly annoyed when Centos were terminated. In my efforts to Fedorize the server I use everyday to host the WordPress blog that records most of the work done on our Quality Managament System I encountered this annoying error Failed to download metadata for repo ‘appstream’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist…

Epiphany on CentOS 7

I’m quite puzzeled: Centos 7 contains the same software as RedHat so knowing that Red Hat is one of the forces behind Gnome one would expect to find Web, the browser once known as Epiphany to be installed or at least installable on it. Nope. As I discoverede reading Gnome 3 on CentOS 7 –…

Sometimes it is annoying

Who? SELinux of course! Mind me, it is a wonderful tool. Tell me I’m old-fashioned, tell me I’m unacknowledged about the security it brings. This after I just wanted to add a theme to my WordPress inner company blog. SELinux kept saying something like “I don’t think so!”.

Debianisms

I was going to enable mod_rewrite on the new work box, discovering that CentOS doesn’t have a2enmod. So reading apache 2.2 – CentOS“-bash: a2enmod: command not found” – from Server Fault I discovered that a2enmod is a debianism, on CentOS you will need to do this manually. Please refer to the Apache documentation to find…

Hugin on Centos 7

To update corporate website and for a EcoMondo I had to stitch some photos I’ve made a couple of weeks ago. As usual I wanted to use Hugin. yum install hugin told me that my new Centos 7 machine don’t have it. Ok, let’s search for a proper repo. Too bad there isn’t. Ok, let’s…

Printers

Richard Stallman back in the  late ’70 were compelled to start GNU project because he cannot hack the firmware of a prototype of a laser printer. Fourty years later people using software libero still quarrel with printers. Me for example…. on the previous (Ubuntu) box I was able to smoothly use that printer. Now Centos…