This is quick’n’dirty writeup to help others who might have the same problem. I’ll clean this up later in the week … Ubuntu Jaunty is the new beta version of Ubuntu. It comes with a new version of X.Org and the ATI drivers have been incompatible with this version of X.Org. ATI recently released drivers [...]

I was in the process of figuring out and documenting the process of  compiling and installing an Xen enabled kernel on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. This was for a specific project that’s not going to come to fruition. I’m not going to bother as I also don’t feel like having my laptop burn a gaping hole [...]

This assumes that you want to use Php with Apache2 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. First install libapache2-mod-php5: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 Which will install the following extra packages: The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-prefork php5-common Suggested packages: php-pear php5-timezonedb And will remove apache2-mpm-worker (if you have it already installed). The following packages will [...]

If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5

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 /etc/apache2/sites-available/default # enable mod_perl     <Files ~ “\.(pl|cgi)$”>            SetHandler perl-script            PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry            Options +ExecCGI            PerlSendHeader On     </Files> In a real production environment you [...]

I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html So following the instructions there on what changes to make to your sources.list, and then run: aptitude update I’ve had some dependency issues, and installing the kde4 [...]

I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of related packages, and there doesn’t seem to be lot of e17 packages available in the experimental repo sudo aptitude install e17 Reading [...]

I’m thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with Linux (for me specifically Debian or Ubuntu). For anyone interested in either laptop, looks like the [...]

Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line (supposedly temporarily but it’s been offline for almost 6 months). Also, I’ve been having issues with E17 working correctly on my laptop running [...]

Specifically for Debian, see here: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html I’m not sure what software is in their repo besides Picasa, Google Earth might be there too, but I’ve been using the Debian package, googleearth-package, to install Google Earth. See http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ for instructions for other supported versions of Linux.