Comments on: Updating to Fedora 8 http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/ If it ain't broke you're not trying hard enough Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: twegener http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/#comment-2740 twegener Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:33:05 +0000 http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/#comment-2740 @Robert Fedora doesn't let you install the plugin from within firefox since firefox is installed under /usr/ which is read-only for non-root users. Using yum to install the plugin has the advantage of checking for updates to the plugin whenever you do a 'yum update'. (Sorry, I must have forgotten to reply to this initially.) @franker Install this rpm http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm (using rpm -Uhv). This adds the livna repo to your yum repo config. Then you should be able to install gspca using the method described in the post. @Robert
Fedora doesn’t let you install the plugin from within firefox since firefox is installed under /usr/ which is read-only for non-root users. Using yum to install the plugin has the advantage of checking for updates to the plugin whenever you do a ‘yum update’.
(Sorry, I must have forgotten to reply to this initially.)

@franker
Install this rpm http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm (using rpm -Uhv). This adds the livna repo to your yum repo config. Then you should be able to install gspca using the method described in the post.

]]> By: franker http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/#comment-2739 franker Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:57:31 +0000 http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/#comment-2739 I can't find driver for fedora 8. gpsca??? Where I can find that??? Thanks I can’t find driver for fedora 8. gpsca??? Where I can find that???
Thanks

]]> By: Robert nelson http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/#comment-430 Robert nelson Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:38:08 +0000 http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/#comment-430 Thanks for the instructions on how to install Flash player, I tried them and wonder of wonders it worked. Any idea why Fedora doesn't let you do the install while in Firefox? Thanks for the instructions on how to install Flash player, I tried them and wonder of wonders it worked. Any idea why Fedora doesn’t let you do the install while in Firefox?

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