See the instructions at http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
If it’s not already installed, for php-mode you can simply:
# aptitude install php-elisp
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 a good place to meet like-minded folks and get up to speed on new technology, and even a [...]
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 -H -f myfile.txt
Which enables headers (-H) and line folding (-f).
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, the install will correct those)
If you run #aptitude update again the warnings should be gone
2) Install Adobe Flash
#aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree
3)You [...]
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 under Window Manager Hints, change “Hint for the Toolbox” from “Utility Window” to [...]
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 PHP built-in function… what gives? Somehow I didn’t have the GD image manipulation module loaded into PHP. [...]
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 the .rpm) we install as follows but get an error:
# rpm -ivh VirtualBox-2.1.0_(version).rpm
…
No precompiled module for this [...]
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 go to do an update:
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el from install of subversion-1.5.4-0.1.el5.rf conflicts with file from [...]
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. Copy the extracted forlders to /opt
cp -rf /tmp/thunderbird /opt
5. Install the older library of libstdc++.so.5 (5.1 comes with version libstdc++.so.6)
yum install [...]
