debian

Trying to create a package for debian with java

Hi, I'm trying to create a package which depends exactly on sun-java6-jre (other variants don't work in this case) and build-depends on sun-java6-jdk. Unfortunately pbuilder doesn't want to work this way: it installs openjdk-6-jre as a dependency it returns pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy: Depends: sun-java6-jdk which is a virtual packag...

The "dev" suffix in package names?

When using apt-get I see some packages have a "dev" suffix after their names: libreadline5 libreadline-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev What are these exactly and should I install them? ...

How do I tell what version of Cassandra I'm running?

I just spun up a machine on EC2 running Cassandra following the instructions in the link below, but I have no idea what version it is. How do I figure this out? I know I'm missing something incredibly simple, just don't know where to look. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CloudConfig ...

How to resolve missing server problem in netbeans installed in Debian?

I have installed netbeans in Debian and no server is listed in "Available java EE compatible servers" when trying to resolve. Also, cannot "Add server" by giving "platform folder location". By default, it appears "/home/raj/SUNWappserver". The error "provide valid application server location" not disappears whatever is typed in "platform...

List of installed Debian packages - but with a twist!

I have an old Debian box that I used heavily over a long period of time that will no longer boot cleanly, so I pulled out a new Ubuntu Live CD to give it a second chance at life. I backed up all my files, but now I want to review what packages I had installed. Problem: It appears that the dpkg maintainers only expect a person to do this ...

How can I make a Debian package depend on another package with exactly the same version

I'm building a Debian package which gathers together a number of other closely tied packages by declaring them as dependencies. I want those dependencies to be exactly the same version as the package. Is there a way within the Debian build system to avoid hard coding this within the control file (aside from pre-processing the control f...

Where to get iostream.h

I'm trying to make something in Linux, but it complains that it can't find iostream.h. What do I need to install to get this file? ...

dpkg: warning: while removing directory /usr/local not empty so not removed.

Hi! I built and installed a debian package from the following folder structure: myprog DEBIAN control usr local bin myprog.sh ... using the following commands: dpkg -b myprog/ myprog.deb && dpkg -i myprog.deb When i now remove the package by typing: dpkg -r myprog .. I got the following warning: dpkg: warn...

Is it possible to run dhcpd3 as non-root user in a chroot jail?

Hi everyone. I would like to run dhcpd3 from a chroot jail on Debian Lenny. At the moment, I can run it as root from my jail. Now I want to do this as non-root user (as "-u blah -t /path/to/jail" Bind option). If I start my process like this : start-stop-daemon --chroot /home/jails/dhcp --chuid dhcp \ --start --pidfile /home/jails/d...

Combine two particular lines using sed

I have the following input file that you might recognize as a debian Packages file: Package: nimbox-apexer-sales Version: 1.0.0-201007241449 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Ricardo Marimon <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 124 Depends: nimbox-apexer-root Filename: binary/nimbox-apexer-sales_1.0.0-201007241449_i386.deb Size: 68880 MD5...

Enable SQLite3 in PHP 5

Hi, I am trying to install sqlite3 for php5.2 in debian. in php 5.3 sqlite3 is enable but in debian php 5.2 is the last stable version! Can I enable and use sqlite3 even so? thanks for ur answer! ...

What is the equivalent of option/alt + left/right arrow on debian but on a Mac OS X?

As the title says... It's been annoying me forever that I can't skip over words when writing in the Mac terminal (it works when im logged into Debian via ssh on the Mac terminal) I get '[D' on Mac instead of jumping a word left. ...

mod_rewrite not working

Hello, I'm new to server administration but I was able to get a LAMP setup running on my new VPS. I uploaded a few web files that work on my other server, but they seem to give me the error: "File does not exist" in my /var/log/apache2/error.log file. The homepage loads just fine through my scripting, but other pages don't. .htaccess...

Versioning of debian packaging Information

Hi, I'm developing certain scripts and small software packages which I also package as debian packages. The code is maintained in git and I create new release tarballs with an make target and git-archive. This tarball is then fed to "uupdate -u .tar.gz" to update from the previous packaged version. This far everything works great and ...

Which of these DLLs are the "right" ones?

On a fresh Debian system (Squeeze/Sid) I have installed the following packages using apt-get: ocaml-batteries-included libpcre-ocaml-dev libcamlnet-ssl-ocaml-dev libldap-ocaml-dev When compiling code I get errors such as: ocamlfind: [WARNING] The DLL dllnetaccel_c.so occurs in multiple directories: /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs ocamlfind:...

good bug tracking system for apt-get debian ?

Hello, got a new lenny installation now, we are a small team of 3 devs working on a already old and getting bigger project. We deploy the program every now and then to new client (like once a month), with new features. So we need to get a little more organized, i had installed trac some time ago on my debian etch server, however it insta...

How do wildcards get set when building eglibc?

I am attempting to build the eglibc-2.11.2 package from source. Stupidly or not, I'm trying to backport it to Debian Lenny, mainly so I can build other things that require it without having to upgrade my whole system past stable. (Whether this is a good idea is an exercise for the reader.) I am using the Debianized source from sid. W...

qooxdoo and debian lenny

Hy, Trying to use qooxdoo with debian lenny. qooxdoo sdk 1.2 create-application.py ok but I've got a problem with generate.py : /demo/qooxdoo/hello1$ ./generate.py source-all Traceback (most recent call last): File "/demo/qooxdoo-1.2-sdk/tool/bin/generator.py", line 26, in <module> from generator.Generator import Generator Fil...

apt-cache search [emacs*+] doesnt find emacs in debian

I can't find the emacs package to install on debian. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like: I am using apt-cache search [emacs*+] . I get a list of packages which depend on emacs, but not emacs itself. Any thoughts? I installed the Debian base system only. ...

building apache from source on debian

I'm trying to build apache from source on debian. The only reason I'm not using spt-get install is because in the apache cookbook, they recommend installing from source.I get the following error when I ./configure: configure: error: invalid variable name: ' --with-mpm' I also saw some warnings when I ./buildconf Is this something I sh...