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Monday, February 22, 2010

Installing Firefox 3.6 on Fedora 12

Firefox 3.6 is not available in the default repos of fedora 12. But still you can install it using the rawhide repo.

# yum --enablerepo=rawhide list firefox

You will see a similar output

firefox.i686 3.5.6-1.fc12
@updates Available Packages
firefox.i686 3.6.1-0.11.rc2.fc13

Now, run the following command to install the latest firefox.

# yum --enablerepo=rawhide install firefox

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Installing squid on windows:

Earlier we had installed squid on Linux. Now we are installing squid on windows.

You can download squid binary package from here

Extract the content of zip file in c:\
Now you should have squid directory in c: drive. So now you can see c:\squid directory
Now go to c:\squid\etc via windows explorer and edit squid.conf file

Minimal configuration should be:
visible_hostname hostname
acl myusers src 192.168.1.0/24
http_access allow myusers

Preparing squid

In command prompt
type:
#cd c:\squid\sbin #squid -z

It should create swap directories

Fire your web browser and put proxy setting as 127.0.0.1 and port as 3128

To run squid and launched it automatically run following

#cd c:\squid\sbin #squid -i -n squid -O "-D"

Now run the service
#net start squid

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