Netbeans 6.5 on Debian
Doesn’t perform badly, I’ve been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code to make editing code easier, and performs it auto-completion and method lookup (basically all...
View ArticleAdobe Flash Sound not working with Iceweasel on Debian?
After upgrading to Flash 10 sound stopped working. Installing the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package solved that problem for me: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound If your using pulse...
View ArticleEnable mod_perl on Debian, Ubuntu, & Other Linuxes.
To enable mod_perl with Apache2 on Debian & Ubuntu for all directories served up by Apache2, including user directories such as ~/public_html, add the following lines to...
View ArticleDuh!
Note to self: Disable the firewalling scripts (that listen on and block port 80) when starting webserver!
View ArticleRAD7.5 on Debian or Ubuntu
If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5
View ArticleHi Lenny
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, codenamed Lenny, was recently released. Here’s a round of of articles about the release and why you might want to consider Debian for your infrastructure. Techworld sums up what...
View ArticleKaboom is cool!
Great tool for converting KDE3 settings to KDE4 on Debian. Also, it’s works well to merge KDE4 settings from .kde4 with KDE3 settings in .kde. This is useful as KDE4 1st used .kde4 to save personal KDE...
View ArticleInstall Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu Karmic & Lucid
If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable)....
View ArticleEdx on Debian Stretch
After you clone the Edx repo there you will find a (undocumented) list of packages required to install on Ubuntu: requirements/system/ubuntu/apt-packages.txt These packages and others are required for...
View ArticleDebian: Yarn fails to run.
Try setting the following environmental variable: export NODE_PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:/usr/share/nodejs Yarn fails to run and shows a stacktrace like the following? Set the NODE_PATH. Error: Cannot find...
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