If you get the following error while updating the package list: You need to manually update the key. The key-ID is the last 8 digits of the key, in this case: 0c713da6. Now fetch the key from the Ubuntu keyserver: And finally add the new key to the apt-keyring: You can even automate this a… Read More: apt-get Errors »
To compile php-gtk, you need the following packages: When trying to use the buildconf.sh, you might encounter the following error: which leaves the configure-script in a broken state. The problem is that the newer libtool.m4 has been split into different files. To make it work, you have to concatenate the different files back into the… Read More: Compiling PHP-GTK »
Creating ext3 You might want to enable additional features using tune2fs. feature may be one of the following: feature Description large_file If you have files > 2GiB, this flag should be automatically set by the kernel. dir_index Uses hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. sparse_super Limits the number of backup superblocks to… Read More: Filesystems »
Windows application(s) Linux equivalent(s) Adobe Photoshop GIMP Adobe Illustrator Inkscape AeroFlyFMS CRRCSim ElStEr Taxbird foobar2000 RhythmboxMPD with pympd Google Earth Marble (or try their WinE-Version) IrfanView GQview Microsoft Office OpenOffice.org Miranda Pidgin Nero Nero Linux Picasa F-Spot (or try their WinE-Version) PopTray mail-notification PortableAppsU3 PorToolsl-portableKlik Putty CM + PuTTY grcm or ~/.ssh/config StarMoney Moneyplex (or… Read More: Alternatives to Windows applications »
At work we have the Kerio Mailserver Appliance for VMware which is based on Fedora Core 6. Since they use the ugly yum, I decided to install apt-rpm. I’m still missing something like aptitude, but it is okay now. apt-rpm expects some *.list files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory – as does the Ubuntu apt-get. Repositories… Read More: apt-rpm »
To burn/print lightscribe media under Linux, you need two things: Installing 4L No drive detected If 4L-gui doesn’t detect any drive, try running it from a console window. If you see the following error message: The described library is missing (as with Karmic Koala). Either try finding it in aptitude or do the following: This… Read More: LightScribe in Linux »
The Configure button is definitely missing in gnome-screensaver. To customize the xscreensaver-modules, you can use xFX Screensaver Settings.
Install the guessnet package. This will install the guessnet-ifupdown helper tool. Now edit your /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following lines: This will first try to connect to the CompanyWLAN network and if this is not found, try the WLANatHOME. If everything fails, it will connect to any open Access Point.
incron allows you to run jobs when the filesystem changes. There is a nice tutorial at Linux.com.
To create ASCII art or just some colorful things with lots of ANSI color codes, there’s the package aewan – Ascii-art Editor Without A Name. aewan itself saves the files in an own format. But there’s the tool aecat which lets you cat those files – and thus you can also write the output into… Read More: ASCII-Art »