Enable proxy on opensuse 11.3

Configure the proxy in Opensuse to be able to use zypper,Yast . .


To configure proxy open terminal and type this command to edit proxy file

  nano  /etc/sysconfig/proxy

Then add these lines

  PROXY_ENABLED="yes"
  HTTP_PROXY="http://proxyhost:port"
  FTP_PROXY="http://proxy-host.com:port"
  HTTPS_PROXY="http://proxy-host:port"

If  you  are  using a username and  password  for  your  proxy  make the above lines looks like this

  HTTP_PROXY="http://user:password@proxyhost:port"

After adding these file save it
and then exit
and reboot your machine
Yast and zypper are working now behind the proxy.

Njoy :)

Install VirtualBox on Fedora 13

This is a steps tutorial on how to get VirtualBox up and running on Fedora 13.

The folks at VirtualBox have made it easy to install for Fedora users and I’m going to show you how in a few easy steps. Right, open a terminal window and let’s get to it…

      1. Become privileged

             su -

2. Get the VirtualBox repo installed 
   
   wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo && cp virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
   

3. Install VirtualBox
   

   yum install -y VirtualBox*
   
4. Run the setup file for VirtualBox:
   

   /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
   
5. Run, & Njoy!
   VirtualBox