I’ve been trying for some time use Elisa media center on Fedora but it seams that Elisa is too elusive for Fedora. Current version on Elisa home page is 0.5.12 but if you install Elisa on Fedora 9 you will get much older 0.3.2, even bigger issue is that Elisa doesn’t work because of some broken dependencies.
 
You can look at Fedora Bugzilla; more specifically look at bugs #446051 and #429590.
 
So I guessed that there will be some “break my Fedora box” packages in F9 updates-testing repos, but unfortunately there were none :(
So I booted Fedora 10 beta - this is the bleeding edge Fedora so I thought there had to be new Elisa package in F10, but guess what? Fedora 10 also has old Elisa 0.3.2 which doesn’t work.
 
I also tried manually getting packages from freshrpms testing repo, I downloaded and saved all the rpm packages and tried to install them but there were some unmet dependencies :(
 
I tried installing pigment-python-0.3.8-1.fc9.i386.rpm but that packet needs libpigment-0.3.so.8, libpigment-gtk-0.3.so.8 and libpigment-imaging-0.3.so.8 but pigment-devel-0.3.9-1.fc9.i386.rpm packet provides only so.7 but no so.8 libraries…
 
I hope these issues will get sorted out as soon as possible. I’m willing to test Elisa packages and help that way so that working and updated Elisa gets into Fedora 10 repositories.
 
UPDATE:
I found out how you can install elisa on Fedora 9 thanks to thm on #fedora-devel irc channel, and it isn’t too hard.

First you need to setup freshrpms repository; just copy the code below, but you need to remove [ ] around etc because my blog has protection that prevents me to write that path.


su -
cat < /[etc]/yum.repos.d/freshrpms-testing-elisa.repo
[freshrpms-testing-elisa]
name=Freshrpms Testing (elisa)
baseurl=http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/$releasever/elisa/$basearch
gpgkey=http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1
EOF
 

and then just install elisa:
 

yum --enablerepo=freshrpms-testing-elisa install elisa

Links:

• Elisa home page
• Bugzilla bug #446051
• Bugzilla bug #429590
• Freshrpms testing repository

There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy - but a lot of time you actually don’t own it, you can’t improve upon it, you can’t share it or make it better, you certainly can’t post the plans, schematics and source code either. Here’s the only open source gift guide you see this year and it’s from MAKE Magazine

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Već neko vrijeme draga i ja razmišljamo o nabavci novog monitora za design i grafiku, a izbor nam je pao na widescreen 20″ modele.
Gledajući malo naišao sam na Anandtech recenzije dva trenutno najjača 20″ modela, Dell i Apple (oba koriste isti LG LCD TFT panel).
Dell i Apple se mogu naći u www.m-comupters.hr trgovini; DELL 20″ 2005FPW košta 5200kn dok je Apple 6600kn.
Vrhunac ponude je jedan ekstrem dok među najjeftinijim 20″ widescreen modelima našao sam Samsung 205BW po cijeni od 2900kn, isto u www.m-computers.hr.
Za sada još nisam našao neku zlatnu sredinu pa ćemo vjerovatno uzeti Samsunga sada a onda ga za godinu dana prodamo i uzmemo Dell-a :)

UPDATE;
Draga i ja smo išli u Konzum kupiti müsle i na kraju kupili monitor :) Philips LCD 190S7 19″ je bio na akciji za smiješnih 1600kn :)
Bilo je predobro da bi propustili. Eto kako se danas kupuje hardver - u samoposluzi. Vidio sam da će se to dogoditi još prije više godina ali nije mi palo na pamet da ću i sam tako kupovati. Never say never…

Evo za sve one koje zanima dobar a povoljan projektor za kućno kino. BenQ PE5120 je nagrađen projektorom godine a cijena u hrvata nije pretjeranih 6600kn.

Recenzija: BenQ PE5120

Nokia 770 je predivna stvarčica… ja bih ju nazvao Pocket PC killer :) Vrti GNU/Linux (konkretno Debian i 2.6 kernel) i Gnome sučelje pa izgleda preeeedivno. Srce stroja je arm procesor, ima WIFI 802.11b/g, ekran velike rezolucije (800×480) s prikazom 65,536 boja, 64MB DDR RAM-a, 128MB flash memorije, USB…
Memorija će se moći proširivati RS-MMC karticama (Reduced Size - MultiMediaCard) ?!? , teška je 230 grama, baterija izdrži 3 sata rada ili 7 dana na čekanju i dolazi u jesen ove godine!

Oduševljen sam događajima oko novih izvora napajanja za prijenosne uređaje. Ovaj put je konkretno riječ o gorivim čelijama, kako je ovdje najavljeno do kraja 2005 godine bi se trebali pojaviti baterije na bazi gorivih čelija. U odnosu na istu masu litij-ion baterija gorive čelije imaju 10x veći kapacitet. Uskoro ćemo autonomiju notebook računala izražavati u danima, a mobilnih telefona u tjednima :)
Jedva čekam dalje razvoje u ovome polju…