archlinux

A Development Machine in VirtualBox - (Debian-min vs ArchLinux vs recommend-one).

I have few years of exp on linux, mainly ubuntu (dual-boot). Now i am shifting to windows, and installing linux in VirtualBox (PUEL). I am looking for a light-weight distro for development machine setup. Thought of using debian-unstable-minimum, and installing build-essentials, openbox(or a little more feature light-WM, ps recommend), ss...

Can't get ImageMagick to process uploaded images using paperclip

When I upload images I am getting the following error: [paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: /tmp/stream20091218-7204-1fuv2j1-0 is not recognized by the 'identify' command.> I have staging servers that have been setup on VMs that work fine, but once I move out to the producti...

rpcbind authorization problems

Hy, I am using rpcbind (SunRPC) on Arch linux and python rpc.py (wich use standard python socket module) interface for comunication with it, but every time I try to send request for registration or unregistration to rpcbind I get message that I am rejected for security reasons. Only situation when everything works is that when I call rp...

Ruby Enterprise fails to compile with GCC 4.5

Ruby Enterprise Edition fails to compile from sources with GCC 4.5, but sucessfully compiles with 4.3.3. Actually, not sure if it's about GCC, but, in fact, i686 Arch linux system with laest updates won't compile RE. Compilation fails with the message: mkdir -p .ext/common make PRELIBS='-Wl,-rpath,/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.01/lib...

Nokia QT SDK on archlinux

Nokia realised qt sdk beta. http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/e920da1a-5b18-42df-82c3-907413e525fb/Nokia_Qt_SDK.html Is it possible to run it on archlinux? Hm, it is able to run, but unfortunately there is too new libpng version in archlinux. ...

Debian/Ubuntu r-base-*, r-cran-*, revolution-r packages: porting to ArchLinux

Recently I've migrated to Arch Linux, after ~4 years being loyal to Ubuntu. Everything works like a charm, it's noticeably faster than Ubuntu, IMHO it's easier to customise, but when it is to do with support for R, well, Ubuntu takes a medal. I'm not willing to do another distro-shuffle and switch back to Ubuntu, while Debian is just "to...

best sql client for linux *box window manager

I am using ARCH Linux and Awesome3 WM. I am looking for a good sql client for multi database include mysql postgre oracal. Squirrel sql seems good, but I got a blank window after launch it. Any solution for this problem or there is another better client for me? ...

export env at archlinux shell

when I at company , I have to export 3 enviroment variables, http_proxy,https_proxy,all_proxy, I wrote a file ~/bin/setproxy like this #! /bin/sh export http_proxy=http://......:8888 export https_proxy=http://......:8888 export all_proxy=http://......:8888 but when I execute this file at bash, then use env | grep http_proxy , I got n...

Recompiling mod_auth_mysql for future modification.

Hey, I'm trying to compile this UNMODIFIED apache mod in ArchLinux so I can modify it later on, but I'm a nub... apxs -c -L/usr/lib/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql -lmysqlclient -lm -lz mod_auth_mysql.c /usr/share/apr-1/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -DLINU X=2 -D_REENTRANT...