How to install VirtualBox 4.3 on Fedora 19

This tutorial will show you how to install VirtualBox 4.3 on Fedora 19. VirtualBox is a free, rich features and powerful virtualization software for Linux. We can power up multiple operating systems on a single Fedora host. Install Virtualbox 4.3 on Fedora 19 is pretty easy. Please read the following steps to install VirtualBox 4.3 on Fedora 19. 

First, we need to install wget package since Fedora 19 does not include wget. Execute this command as root on Terminal/Konsole

yum install wget

Now, cd to /etc/yum.repos.d

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

yum install VirtualBox-4.3

Fedora will download and install VirtualBox automatically. Simply wait until the download process is finished.

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How to configure RPMFusion repository on Fedora 19

RPMFusion contains various software and packages for Fedora based system. By default, Fedora does not have this rpmfusion repository installed. So we need to configure it manually. Here I want to show you how to configure RPMFusion repository on Fedora 19. There are two ways to do this and choose one suit for you.

1. Graphical ways

Click the following links to download the rpmfusion configuration package. When asked, select to open with Fedora package installer. 

• RPM Fusion free for Fedora 19
• RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora 19

Once finished, rpmfusion should be activated automatically.

2. Command line

If you choose to use command line to configure rpmfusion on Fedora 19, do the following on Terminal as root.

su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

Press y to confirm the installation and in few seconds, your rpmfusion should be enabled.

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How to check the SSH status on Fedora 19

SSH provides a secure network connection to a Linux system. On Fedora, we can easily start, stop the sshd status via command line. Here I want to show you how to check the status of the ssh server on Fedora 19.
Open Terminal and type the following commands

su
service sshd status

If your ssh server is running, you will get the following output on Terminal

[root@localhost liveuser]# service sshd status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  sshd.service
sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2013-10-27 03:44:08 EDT; 5s ago
  Process: 2986 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sshd-keygen (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 3009 (sshd)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/sshd.service
           └─3009 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
Oct 27 03:44:08 localhost sshd-keygen[2986]: Generating SSH2 RSA host key: [...]
Oct 27 03:44:08 localhost sshd-keygen[2986]: Generating SSH1 RSA host key: [...]
Oct 27 03:44:08 localhost systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH server daemon.
Oct 27 03:44:09 localhost sshd[3009]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Oct 27 03:44:09 localhost sshd[3009]: Server listening on :: port 22.

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Download Virtualbox 4.3 for Fedora 19

The new version of VirtualBox 4.3 is now available for Linux. Here we provide the direct download link for the new VirtualBox 4.3 for Fedora 19 system. VirtualBox is a virtualization software that allows us to run multiple operating systems on a single host simultaneously. The new VirtualBox 4.3 has many improved features. 

Download VirtualBox 4.3 for Fedora 19 host:

• 32 bit
• 64 bit

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