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Pathogens, informatics and modelling at EMBL-EBI

How to install texlive (full) on Fedora 17 - and why

Fedora provides a texlive package (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive), however it is incomplete, usually out of date and I haven’t been able to easily install new latex packages through it. In theory new packages can be installed by issuing the command:

yum install 'tex(epsfig.sty)'

However this never worked for me, and despite some searching I couldn’t work out what was going wrong.

How to set up SSH certificates on a Fedora 17 client

From: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/3-steps-to-perform-ssh-login-without-password-using-ssh-keygen-ssh-copy-id/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys http://www.lifelinux.com/setting-up-an-ssh-certificate/

To generate the key pair (on the local machine)

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

Copy the public key to the host. I found I first need to restart ssh and execute ssh-add to load the newly created key. Execute the following commands on the local machine: