Steam has the bad habit to not run after upgrades of the Steam software. This is, because it uses its own libc which expects libraries not there in Ubuntu. To fix this, delete the file libstdc++.so.6.0.18 from the following folders: Update October 2016 It seems Steam has a few more bad duplicates to make it… Read More: Steam bug in Ubuntu »
To install Puppet on CentOS 7, you can basically follow these instructions. Notes: To permanently switch from WEBrick to Apache, configure systemd like this: Install client agent on RedHat/CentOS
Detect new disk size With virtual machines (VMware at least), you can resize the disk drives without restarting the VM itself. After doing that, you have to get Linux to recognize the new disk drive size. Use one of these (found hereand here) – assuming the modified drive is /dev/sdc: Check the success with fdisk… Read More: Resize partition »
This label printer doesn’t work out of the box under Linux. There are some instructions over atubuntuforums.org, but they’re missing something for the latest Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. These instructions should work:
To enable most .plgx-Plugins, you need to install the mono-gmcs-Package. For newer versions of KeePass, use mono-dmcs. For a list of all needed packages, look at leo.gaggl.com.
If you want to find out from which PPA a specific package was installed or what other PPAs hold it, you can use the following command: (found at superuser.com) Here you can see that the package mpg is in the PPA gmpc-trunk/mpd-trunk and also in the natty/universe repository. The installed version is that from the… Read More: Find PPA for specific package »
After an upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, all Samba shares were missing symlinks, esp. symlinks to directories outside the share. To enable these again, add the following lines into the [global] section of your /etc/samba/smb.conf: Then restart smbd and you should see the symlinks again.
To export a list of all installed packages, you can use the following command: But this will loose any {A} markers for automatically installed packages and therefore produce a lot of garbage when dependencies change. To export only manually installed packages, use aptitude like this: (More aptitude filterstrings can be found on their project page.)… Read More: Sync Package List between 2 PCs »
This plugin will work with browsers which support Netscape compatible plugins, e.g. Firefox or Opera. SSL error 61 This error means your certificate chain is broken or not “trusted”. Get certificates While the Windows clients download the certificates automatically, the Linux client doesn’t. You will need access to a Windows running Firefox or talk to… Read More: Citrix ICAClient »
To merge multiple (similar) video files into one big file, there are different ways. avimerge This only works with avi files. avimerge is part of the transcode-utils package. If the sound doesn’t match from the second file on, use the -c switch. mencoder This should also work with mpg videos. Install the mencoder package.