Sooperlooper loses connection to engine

If it happens that sooperlooper shows you this dialog:

Lost connection to SooperLooper engine.
See the Preferences->Connections tab to start a new one

on newer distributions (I tried it with Fedora 16 beta 1), add your
. (substitude with your host and with your domain) to your `/etc/hosts' file on the line for 127.0.0.1 and try again.

For example, my hostname is `mmxgn' and domain is `emergencia' so my hosts file was:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

and I added mmxgn.emergencia next to localhost.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mmxgn.emergencia

Now when I run `slgui' I can use sooperlooper without the engine dying.

Guitar Pro 6 on Fedora 15

I had some problems installing Guitar Pro 6 for Linux on Fedora 15.
The problem was that, after extracting the .deb file on the cd, on /opt/ the updater would fail when I ran it as a user because of wrong permissions, and if I chmodded 777 the Guitar Pro directory, or ran with sudo, It would not run at all.

So, what I did:

1. I ran ./GPUpdater as the regular user, with the original directory permissions
2. While running, I chmodded 777 /opt/GuitarPro6
3. Updated

And finally (I'm at the third step right now) changing to the original 755 permissions.