Hello... I just had a big problem after installing tekmaker in Debian testing via apt-get. It was suspicious already that it wad re-installing a lot of libraries and even removing packages (!) When I restarted the machine, X windows not working.... Have you any idea of what happened? I googled for a solution but it really seems that i...
I can run apachectl fine as a regular user, but when I sudo apachectl, I get sudo: apachectl: command not found. Any thoughts? I have the apache /bin directory in my path. ...
I created an Android app that serves the touch screen sensor data to a java client that is listening on Debian Lenny machine. The client maps this data to locations on the screen just like a wacom pad does. I would like to out put the x_loc and y_loc to a file and have the file recognized as a device.(I foggily believe this is how it is...
I use debrealse command to setup my package. But I cannot find it on disk. Where can I find it? ...
Have been pulling out my hair trying to find out why my sessions are being terminated/killed/destroyed at 30 minutes. Well it looks like Debian based systems have a special cron running that ignores all php.ini and apache configurations and kills any idle session at 30 minutes. The cron path: /etc/cron.d/php5 Inside the cron: # /etc/...
I'm writing a very simple script to control a process, script checks if the process is running, if not: executes it. I need to expand this with the ability to kill a specific process instance (very one one script has started) after a specified amount of time. Problem is, once bash script is executed it isn't running until the executed p...
I've a debian webserver with subversion running on it. I'm trying to use post-commit script to update my staging version of my site. #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/svn update /home/sites/example.com/www >> /var/log/svn/example.log 2>&1 if I run that command from the command line logged in as user 'derek' then it all works fine but when it ru...
How to download openssh package using apt-get? The problem is that the package is already installed so I get only: sudo apt-get install openssh -d Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done openssh is already the newest version. Because of being already installed, I don't get the debian package. I should remove it...
I want to reinstall the whole LAMP server under Debian Lenny. This means, using 'apt-get remove' is not enough, I want to remove completely all components, and start again. I tried but files are always there so I can't make a new configuration for everything. What can I do? Thanks! ...
Are these ok? My config line is this: ./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-sqlite --disable-pdo --disable-reflection --with-curl --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config And the...
Is there a way to trigger/fire the UP key in the command line? Instead of me having to press UP key. ...
How do I use the "history" command to fire the last run command? ...
I'm creating a Debian package for my application using dh/debuild, following Ubuntu's PackagingGuide/Complete but I'm having some trouble. I think it has to do with the structure of my Makefile. The source Makefile is: install: mkdir -p /usr/share/getbooru cp -av * /usr/share/getbooru ln -s /usr/share/getbooru/getbooru /usr/...
I've installed Ruby (1.8.7 via apt-get) and I installed Rails (2.3.2 via rubygems) but when I type 'rails newapp', I get this error: The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install rails rails: command not found When I run 'gem list' it shows rails and all of it's dependencies. Any id...
I have created a simple program in python. Now I want trasform this script in an executable program ( with hidden source code if possible ) and when I click 2 times on it, the program install itself on the ubuntu ( in the /usr/lib or /usr/bin I think ) and it will create a new launcher in the Application -> Game menu. How can I do that ...
I need a small linux Text only version bootable installed on a partition of my hardrive, How can I customize a Linux version like redhat, debian, puppy etc. Please suggest some suitable distribution? ...
Hello, I currently have PHP 5.0 installed on my Debian VPS and was wondering how I would be able to upgrade it to PHP 5.3 and keep all of my installed modules running. Thanks, Jake ...
I ran this code: sudo cat <<EOF | sudo sed -e "s,%,$,g" >/etc/init.d/dropbox echo "Hello World" EOF But even though, I get "permission denied", cause you have to be root to make changes in the /etc/init.d directory. And somehow, my command above doesn't work. Is there a way to solve this? ...
I've got a Debian 5 (lenny) setup with Python 2.6 built from source (2.6 isn't available through APT nor backports for some reason) and it has the PIL library installed. During installation it passes telling me I have PNG/ZIP support, which is what i need, but when I either try to run the python script (which works on my windows machine...
Not so long ago I've installed Debian and configured it with my friend's help. Yesterday I have downloaded GCC 4.4 and I created a simple program to test it out. This is the code: #include <stdio.h> int main () { int result; printf ("Hello Wor... Linux! This is my %dst program compiled in Debian.\nHow many is 2+2?\n", 1); s...