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Problem:

How to build vidalia from source at FC6 ?

Solution:

Ignore the INSTALL file, apparently it’s outdated and qt is no longer the same they link there, you can install all the needed packs from yum:

yum install qt4 qt4-dev* nas tor privoxy qt cmake

Then it’s just build from source:

cd /path/to/vidalia-src

cmake .;make;make install

done!

Source:

Vidalia Project Trac

Extra:

For me, tor didn’t worked at all it kept connecting forever and couldn’t build a node list, i figured out that the latest tor engine for fc6 installed by yum was 0.1.x which didn’t work with the actual network anymore, so i had install tor 0.2.x from the source, after that it almost connected, tor kept building a nodelist forever, so i checked the message log and figured out that the machine clock was wrong, in order to fix that, i had to sync it using ntp.

Problem:

yum stopped working with funny messages:

Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

editing /etc/yum.repos.d/ files by removing the # near the baseurl, gives this other happy error message:

Setting up repositories
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:23:29 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 249
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core

Solution:

I have this old FC6 server but apparently there’s no info about how to fix the repositories, at least not new info, mostly of the information i’ve found is outdated, and apparently fedora has changed the address of the repos since 2008/08/28 (weirdly it still working since last week)

so i found at:

ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/

a nice readme telling where the files are,

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/

all you need to do now, is replace into the .repo files at your’s /etc/yum.repos.d/ the new path and done!

Since this is a boring process, and i would need the .repo files myself i uploaded to the server, so:

Download Fedora Core 6 working yum repo files here.