Category Archives: Linux
Subversion 1.6 on Debian (Lenny)
See the instructions at http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
Editing PHP in Emacs – Debian, Ubuntu package
If it’s not already installed, for php-mode you can simply: # aptitude install php-elisp
ABLEConf 2009
Free. Saturday, October 24, 2009… 10am to 4pm at the University of Advancing Technology in Phoenix (Baseline Rd. just west of I-10). A full day of presentations and participation on free software. More info: http://www.ableconf.com/ Update: A good time and … Continue reading
Notes on Text File Handling
For printing multiple pages, mpage comes in handy. It produces 2-up or 4-up Postscript from plain text files. (Debian package: mpage) Curiously, “mpage –help” or any of the standard pleas for help don’t work; use: mpage -x Example use: mpage … Continue reading
Adding Flash Player to Debian
1) Add the backports repository by editing /etc/apt/sources.lst (must be root) and adding the following line: deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free Run the following: #aptitude update #aptitude install debian-backports-keyring (Ignore any warning that occur with the above 2 commands, … Continue reading
Gimp 2.6 Toolbox is always in the way
The biggest frustration with Gimp 2.6 has been that pesky toolbox window always in the way over what I’m working on. Turns out it’s easy to make it act sanely. Try this: Go to Edit; Preferences; click Window Management; and … Continue reading
Virtualmin on a Debian Linode
See also my comments of installation of Virtualmin on a Centos linode… these are just the additional issues. GD under PHP not installed by default WordPress and other PHP systems were reporting errors about “imagecreatefromjpeg not defined” … that’s a … Continue reading
Installing VirtualBox on Centos 5.2
Full instructions, particularly for “headless” installation, are here. First we download the RPM for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) which is the equivalent to Centos from the virtualbox.org site After downloading (and renaming the file to eliminate everything after … Continue reading
RPM Bits on Centos 5
To get gkrellm and other goodies: # rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm That’s for Centos 5.x (RHEL 5)… there may be updated instructions on Dag’s site. On a 64-bit system, once you add rpmforge you may have problems like this, when you … Continue reading
Thunderbird 2 on Centos 5.1
Found at tbox.myblogspot.com: Download Thunderbird 2 from Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/) or other mirros like (http://mirror.oscc.org.my/mozilla/thunderbird/). I downloaded thunderbird-2.0.0.14.tar.gz to the directory /tmp. Extract the files Open a terminal and login as root to the directory /opt su – cd /opt 4. … Continue reading