Install LibreOffice in Ubuntu and LinuxMint.

Install LibreOffice using PPA in Ubuntu and LinuxMint :

If you want to install in ubuntu/LinuxMint via ppa, open terminal and copy the following command to your terminal :

First remove openoffice

sudo apt-get purge openoffice

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Cannot access VMWare server web page after upgrade Firefox

After upgrading Firefox to version 3.6, I got an error message (“The connection was reset”) when trying to access VMWare Server Web Interface V2.0.2.

After some research I found following solution :

In the address bar, enter “about:config”

Click past the mandatory warning message.

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MiniDLNA UPnP-AV server

MiniDLNA

MiniDLNA (aka ReadyDLNA) is server software with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. It is developed by a NETGEAR employee for the ReadyNAS product line.

The software is small, easy to use and configure. No GUI involved. Find the source on sourceforge.net

Usage:

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Create ISO from folder

How to create an ISO image from a folder (e.g. DVD image) ?

Very simple, just with a single command (and some patience) :

mkisofs -o destination.iso /home/user/sourcefolder

This will create an ISO image called “destination.iso” which contains the contents (including subfolders) of “/home/user/sourcefolder”

Enjoy,

M.

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Mount image files (like ISO) GUI tool

Furius ISO Mount
An ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image management utility for the Gnome Desktop Environment.
With this tool it’s easy to mount an image file in user space. No super user required and no command line …
Check the website : Furius ISO Mount
Packages available for Ubuntu (deb), OpenSuse and Slackware. Also source available.
Have fun,
M.
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Nicotine plus 1.2.9 / 1.2.16

Let’s install Nicotine plus 1.2.9 on my Ubuntu 6.06 system I thought. The Nicotine version I use is quit old, and this one looks a hell of a lot nicer.

So i visited the sourceforge.net page and downloaded the tarball. unpacked and installed it. So far so good. Also running the new Nicotine plus is no problem, until … I want to use the “search” function. WTF ? nothing happens when I press the search button…

And here our story begins …

I found out that GTK+ 2 is needed for that, so I downloaded and extracted gtk+2.10.14. However this one requires (the right) glib2, atk. pango and cairo. No problem. Also downloaded them. Then, cairo requires freetype and fontconfig. Ahhh … also downloaded them. Installed freetype, fontconfig, atk, glib2, pango and cairo. Then back to gtk+ …. Ahhh … pango installed without cairo support (yes, I installed pango first). So a new configure, make and make install of pango and off we go again with gtk+.

Now it complains that “pkg-config –modversion glib-2.0 returned 2.12.13, but GLIB (2.8.0) was found”. Thanks for Google, I found the solution to this one also. Created the file “/etc/ld.so.conf” file and added the ” /usr/local/lib” path in this file (that is where the new GLIB libraries are located). now run the “ldconfig -v” command to update the library cache.

AGAIN starting the configuration of gtk+ and … it works ! also “make” and “make install” run without issues …

Finally, nicotine plus will fully work … Or not ?? Why is the search still not working ??

When I figure this one out, I’ll update this story.

Update :

Updating Nicotine Plus to the latest version (1.2.16) does the trick. Working like a charm again …

greetz,

M.

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