CEAN Erlang/OTP R12B erts-5.6.5 linux-x86 devel

You can find the version of Erlang installed with yum info erlang. erts version can be found by ls /usr/lib/erlang | grep erts.

After this when I tried to do any operation I received the following error,

** exception error: undefined function ibrowse:start/0
     in function  cean:geturl/3
     in call from cean:packages_from_html/1

Fixing this was simple. CEAN needs the ibrowse package which doesn’t get installed when you install it via yum. I was a bit confused at first because the site said,

If you already have an existing Erlang installation and want to use CEAN on it, you just need to download the CEAN library and extract the archive into your erlang lib directory.

Solution was to download the entire R12B archive from the site and to copy the ibrowse library to /usr/lib/erlang/lib.

Then you can install Erlsom by,

1> cean:install(erlsom).

Update: As it turns out this version of Erlsom getting installed via CEAN is an old one. You need to go to the SF project page and get the latest version and install it.

In FC8 under Gnome, SWT apps were shit slow to the point where it’s not usable. FC9 includes OpenJDK and with it SWT rendering speed has improved and the responsiveness is up to a usable level. First thing I did after the installation was to disable the annoying speaker. Added the pcspkr to the blacklisted modules and it’s gone forever. Next up, changing the keyboard layout to Dvorak. Involves changing in 3 places. One, in the console; you have to change the keyboard entry at /etc/sysconfig. Second, GDM; change the XkbLayout in xorg.conf and finally inside Gnome. One place that I still has the awful qwerty layout is when it asks for the pass phrase for my encrypted partition at boot time (keyboard layout loads before getting into this prompt, yay!)

php-devel package was not included in the DVD- minor annoying fact. WSF/PHP needs php-config to build and it’s with php-devel. Still Xft support for Emacs is not in the bundled rpm (ARGH). So had to resort to -nw and thank god the annoying “broken comment highlighting” was gone. In FC8 when I opened emacs in gnome-terminal with -nw, for Perl programs it colours the ‘#’ character in red and rest of the line is shown using the foreground colour of the terminal. Since this was so annoying I compiled Emacs from the darcs repo and got Xft thing built. So I’m quite ok with -nw.

If you’re looking for a distro for your desktop to replace winborg and transition your activities seamlessly I wouldn’t recommend going for Fedora since by default you will not be able to play all your mp3 files and divx/xvid movies (it’s simple as adding the Livna repo and yum away the media players, but still). All in all the new Fedora release rocks! After all Sulphur is not as bad as it smells.