17.8.10

Fedora 13 64Bit and Skype

Wondering how to make skype work with your fresh installation of fedora 64bit? Here's how:

First, you must install rpmfusion.org's repository. You can find the howto here:

Next, you need to run the following commands:

sudo yum install libXv.i686 \
libXScrnSaver.i686 \
qt-4.6.3-8.fc13.i686 \
qt-x11-4.6.3-8.fc13.i686

Afterwhich, you can now go to and download Skype.

After downloading, install it:

rpm -ivh skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

And then run skype from your menu.

16.8.10

The Great Fedora Switch

Moved from Ubuntu 10.04 to Fedora Core 13. Reason: all my LPI Manuals uses CentOS as main distribution, as I can't use that on my laptop, I used Fedora instead.

So far, everything had been working fine. I edited

/etc/usb_modeswitch.conf

and placed the following lines to the file

/etc/udev/rules.d/15-huawei.conf

to enable my Globe Tattoo:

# My Tattoo!!!

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1",

SYSFS{idProduct}=="1446",

RUN+="/usr/bin/usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf"

Nothing could have been simpler. Also, my sister brought the PS2 from home to my place so I could play the whole time it's here.