Compile subversion for Fedora 19

If you've already tried to compile subversion for Fedora 19, and you got the error message when doing a svn update of svn checkout:

Unrecognized URL scheme for ...

then you have to compile subversion with https support.  This is done by default, but you have to have the serf libraries installed.  Here's how to get things working:

sudo yum install libserf libserf-devel apr-util apr-util-devel apr apr-devel

Then, you can compile subversion normally, like this:

tar -zxvf subversion-1.8.10.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.8.10
./configure
make -j16
sudo make install

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader on Fedora 20

Adapted from http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-acrobat-pdf-reader-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

sudo su

wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm

yum install nspluginwrapper.i686 libcanberra-gtk2.i686 adwaita-gtk2-theme.i686 PackageKit-gtk3-module.i686

yum localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm

Java Applet plugin on RHEL 6 Linux and Firefox

Here's how to run a Java applet in Fedora on RHEL 6 Linux:

1) Download the Java RPM from http://www.java.com

2) Install the RPM

3) Create a symbolic link to the Java shared library:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

4) Restart Firefox

5) Confirm that you see the Java information when you type "about:plugins" in Firefox, on the locaiton bar.