sudo gedit /etc/aliases
then change the line
#root: marc
April 15, 2010
December 15, 2009
Extract data from a ‘challenged’ tar.gz archive
gunzip < yourfilenamehere.tar.gz > OutputFileName.tar.part
September 12, 2009
Programs I tend to install when re-installing Linux (in no particular order)
SAGE math
Kile
Kig
Game Menu
mc
htop
wine
kmod nvidia
mySQL
phpMyAdmin
GoogleEarth
Gparted
SCITE
Amarok
VLC
Xine
easytag
gpodder
evince dvi plugin (for kile)
RKward
codeblocks
K3b
espeak
yumex
yum fastest mirror first
stellarium
kig (kdeedu)
HTOP
Getting Google Earth through SELINUX
Either "su" and leave off the sudo or make sure you're user account is a sudo'er
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/librender.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libauth.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libminizip.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libevll.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libmeasure.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/liblayer.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libflightsim.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libnavigate.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgooglesearch.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libinput_plugin.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgps.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libbasicingest.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libminizip.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libmoduleframework.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgoogleearth_lib.so'
sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libcollada.so'
Keep and eye on SELinux after to make sure any others haven't been added.
Download the required 32 bit packages (to let you run it on a 64 bit system) use:
http://bigjim-network.be/2009/06/24/google-earth-on-fedora-11-64-bit/