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 [...]

If you get this error message: W: GPG error: http://people.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 212253A4F641D1A6 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems This is because you don’t have the public key for Randall’s Nvidia Debian packages! The following [...]

Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have Debian’s unstable branch listed in your sources.list . If your have Enlightenment DR16 installed or any other versions of E17 installed you’ll need to uninstall them: sudo aptitude remove [...]

Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/ If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008): Wait for E17 packages to make it into Debian’s experimental repository: http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2008-03-31/going-debconf-08 The Debian E17 team are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch [...]

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.

So I wanted to install Eclipse at home, the version that comes with Debian is 3.2.2-5 and I wanted to try 3.3.x and install WTP and some other plugins that aren’t packaged with Debian (anyone know why?). After downloading and installing Eclipse the welcome screen would appear with an error message saying: Error creating the [...]

Recent updates on Debian for Novell’s (formerly Ximian’s) Evolution E-mail programme added support for gnome-keyring. When you start Evolution for the 1st time after the recent updates Evolution will ask for the gnome-keyring password, then for your smtp password (password for your e-mail account). This can be a bit of a pain, especially for less [...]

If bluetooth works on your computer, then getting your system to talk to your N73 isn’t hard and I’m not going to cover it here. See this posting for what packages I needed to install to get bluetooth working in my Dell 700M laptop running Ubuntu Linux: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2007/10/09/ubuntu-bluetooth-sd-card/ If you have T-Mobile T-Zones Internet service [...]

E17 Darkness Theme on Ubuntu: E17 Darkness Theme on Ubuntu with the menu highlighted: E17 Darkness theme with a wallpaper from vladstudio.com: Themes are available from get-e.org. The packages for Ubuntu come with Darkness and other themes, the Debian package appears to only come with the default theme. Look for my latest posting on E17 [...]