Linux Tricks

Add the RHEL DVD in the yum repository

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/iso.repo

[rhel-cd]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD
baseurl=file:///media/RHEL/Server/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

yum clean all

Switch sides of window widgets for the Ubuntu Theme in 10.04+

gconftool --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout ":minimize,maximize,close" 

Make CentOS 6 use EPEL repos and install Firfox 10

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox
# turn on remi permanently
rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum install flash-plugin

rpm -Uvh jdk-7u3-linux-i586.rpm 
alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_03/bin/java 2
alternatives --config java