Posted by lostson on December 22, 2009 – 4:23 pm
Filed under Linux, centos
Well here we go again kids building packages just in time for christmas. So I built up the latest stable release of kvirc for CentOS 5. For those of you not familiar with kvirc, it is a irc client much like xchat or konversation except that it has a million options and theme support and a treasure trove of other features. You can learn more about kvirc here.As usual I have placed the rpm in the link above rpms4centos, src rpms are also available as well as debug info. Enjoy and happy holidays.
kvirc 3.4.2 Shiny
Posted by lostson on December 15, 2009 – 8:13 pm
Filed under Linux, centos
Kopete for CentOS 5 has not been able to log into Yahoo for a pretty lengthy amount of time so I wanted to sit down today and figure out why and see if I could fix it. Well upon my search I discovered that the folks over at RHEL where not going to fix it you can read the bug report if you like but it basically says they are not gonna fix it. This fired up my beans so I had to try, I mean cmon who can resist a challenge. So I sat down and got to work.
What I did to fix this was grab the src.rpm from the repo for kdenetwork. I then upgraded Kopete inside the rpm to 12.7 then patched the yahoo protocol. Now Yahoo works perfectly with Kopete. You can read my bug report for CentOS HERE. All in all a success.
To update your version of Kopete from the link above rpms4centos grab the kdenetwork rpm. Now you will first need to “yum remove kdenetwork” then as root “rpm -Uvh kdenetwork” that will get the new Kopete installed for you. The devel and debug rpms are in there as well if you need them along with the src.rpms which are in the srcrpms directory.
On a side not while working all this out today, if you are gonna use google talk with kopete grab the qca-tls rpm as well and install via “rpm -Uvh qca-tls” this is needed for the SSL protocol that google talk uses.
All in all a productive experiment and I hope it can help others out as well.
Posted by lostson on December 3, 2009 – 9:12 pm
Filed under Linux, centos
So I have been wanting to get away from gnome and kde all together and I have fond memories of using E so I thought I would sit down and see if i could get it all working with cent, and low and behold I have and its just as fast and slick as ever. Long before compiz and all that jazz was E16. When you wanted eye candy and speed this was the window manager of choice.
e16 on CentOS 5.4
So as my little project was going getting E16 installed was a breeze but getting Eterm was not as easy as I would have liked. I had to do some tweaking and roll some new rpms, but it worked out just fine. So if you are interested in using E16 & Eterm on your CentOS box hit the link above that says rpms4centos and grab the e16 Eterm and libast rpms. Install in this order libast e16 then Eterm. There are some dependencies but you can easily grab them from the standard repo. E16 will now be available via your login manger be it gdm or kdm. The nice thing is also in your gdm or kdm you may notice other entries like e16-gnome or e16kde – yep thats right you can use E as your window manager inside of gnome or kde, how sweet is that! As always here is a note of warning these are not officially supported rpms built by the CentOS team these are built by me for my use and I like to share them. So if you are gonna use these and run into problems do not ask on the mailing lists or in IRC as they only support what they ship, so please contact me if you have any questions or comments, thanks and enjoy.
Oh btw I am going to be putting together some rpm’s for themes as well soon but for now check out this site e16 themes for all kinds of extra themes for e16.
