Ever wondered whether you are missing a functionality of a program because some Recommended package is missing on your system, because at some point it was not useful? With the Recommends now being installed by default, but not always, apt-get and
Tag - package
Packages and origins
Sometimes, I want to check where my packages come from. apt-show-versions already does a good job, but it tells you from which archive, and not from which site you pulled the package. Moreover, I wanted to tell in which order the distributions matter
A native 64bit java plugin java from Sun
A bit of context You may remember the first advertisings for the Java language; for me, it was undeniablely linked to the applets, these small applications that I used to be able to run in my NCSA Mosaic browser (or in HotJava) (especially Duke doing
Lightning 0.7 for Icedove
I detail again the whole procedure. I presume you have a functional installation of pbuilder following unstable: pbuilder update; pbuilder login Modify /etc/apt/sources.list to have the source repository available apt-get update; apt-get install
Emacs with xft support for Debian
The method was easy at work, in i386 architecture. Ubuntu (or one of its user: Alexandre Vassalotti) has some packages for emacs-snapshot that use the emacs-unicode-2 branche of development. Recompiling was no problem. At home, I use the amd64
Mise à jour de Dotclear: 2.0β7
Il a fallu tenir compte des facteurs suivants : passage à la version SVN de dotclear, changement du validateur du W3C (du XHTML est du HTML bien formé), passage en mode strict de l’interpréteur PHP. À noter, je modifie aussi l’interface
Adobe on amd64 without a chroot: Acrobat and Flash
Choice of the model: chroot or biarch? The first choice was to eliminate the chroot method for its multiple defects: A 32 bits chroot needs to be updated like a real system. Fine for a personal desktop machine, not for a whole bunch. It is
Lightning 0.5 for icedove
I will hereby give a few details about the recompilation (I assume that pbuilder is installed, tracks unstable and works ok): pbuilder update; pbuilder login Modify /etc/apt/sources.list to make the source repository available apt-get update; apt-get
My nvidia module farm
This is the reason why I built by module compilation farm. I have to give three parameters to the script: the kernel version for which I am about to compile, the nvidia source version and the nvidia-legacy source version. I launch my script and end
Icedove 2.0, Lightning et Google Calendar
Le principe qui fait que c’est intéressant, c’est que en vadrouille, je peux consulter et modifier depuis n’importe quel navigateur web mes calendriers. Je peux aussi le faire depuis mon portable ou mon poste au laboratoire dans l’interface de