PChaos says that this patch didn’t work for him.  If this patch fails for you, try his solution. If you’re seeing the following VMWare 10.0.0.5 errors during compile, you need patches: /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.orig.c:2873:18: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘kuid_t’ …

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If you’re seeing the following VMWare 10.0.0.1 errors during compile, you need patches: vmnet-only/filter.c:206:1: error: conflicting types for ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ vmnet-only/netif.c:152:64: error: macro “alloc_netdev” requires 4 arguments, but only 3 given vmnet-only/netif.c:152:10: error: ‘alloc_netdev’ undeclared (first use in this function) vmci-only/linux/driver.c:740:12: …

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The original code is authored by wilsoncd2 at plexapp.com. https://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/71220-linux-install-for-plex-connect/?hl=linux I modified the script to utilize init.d  functions rather than lsb. #!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: plexconnect # Required-Start: plexmediaserver networking # Required-Stop: plexmediaserver networking # Default-Start: 3 …

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Install git and required packages yum -y install git gettext python-mako python-lxml python-mutagen python-requests Download cover art providers and install git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-search-providers.git cd coverart-search-providers sh ./install.sh Download cover art Browser Add-on git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser.git cd coverart-browser sh ./install.sh Fire …

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Switch up to root su – Password: xxxxx Add the Adobe repository to yum vi /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo Add & save the following to the file [adobe-linux-x86_64] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux Add livna.org repository rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm You may …

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This will download and install the brother driver suite, CUPS printer library, and all dependencies.  Tested in Fedora 16, 17, 18, and 19 sudo yum -y install http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/cupswrapperHL2270DW-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm   Post created by: David Gregory Medina