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16Oct/11

Debian Squeeze and Wine 1.3

Posted on: 16th October 2011

Download the .debs for Mepis 8 from this repo; remember to download wine-1.3. and wine-dev-1.3...

also it's a good idea to grab winetricks while you're at it, the newest version off the site should work. Just follow the instructions.

 

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14Sep/11

Debian, Compiz and Metacity

Posted on: 14th September 2011

So today I've spent most of my timing trying to figure out a bug with Debian (sid) Compiz and Metacity/Gnome where there was no window controls i.e. no minimise, maximise, restore and close button.

I found some bugs listed #629239 and #639207 which was the same issue as mine and not the normal "missing emerald" crap.

So after much searching and playing about I decided to downgrade my Metacity to 2.30.1-3 from Metacity 2.34.1-1 which solved my problem!

so Notes to self:

user@computer:$ wget http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian/pool/main/m/metacity/metacity-common_2.30.1-3_all.deb
wget http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian/pool/main/m/metacity/libmetacity-private0_2.30.1-3_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian/pool/main/m/metacity/metacity_2.30.1-3_i386.deb
dpkg --install metacity-common_2.30.1-3_all.deb
dpkg --install libmetacity-private0_2.30.1-3_i386.deb
dpkg --install metacity_2.30.1-3_i386.deb
reboot

Obviously change 9386 to amd64 for a true 64bit system!

Also rember to have compiz --replace ccp in your gnome startup!

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21Feb/11

Network Simulator 2 Debain VM

Posted on: 21st February 2011

As part of my MSc I needed to use NS2 and so I went out to install it. The installation is fairly simple if the user understands Linux and is fairly experienced.

With this in mind, I have created a Debain Virtual Machine for people use use, so they don't need to learn Linux to install it. With it being a VM, it means that, as long as you have VMware installed, it will work on any machine.

System: Debian 6 "Squeeze" i686
User: root
Password: ns123456
Memory: 512mb (Changeable)
HDD: 3GB, of which 1.7GB is used.
Download: Debain NS2.rar (527mb)
Download: VMwarePlayer3.exe (104mb)

Have fun.

P.S. For VMwarePlayer for Linux and OSx, have a look on the VMware site.

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4Jan/10

How to Install Webmin on Ubuntu/Debain

Posted on: 4th January 2010

I wanted to use Webmin as a web-front end to configure my Ubnutu Server; as webmin isn't in the aptitude repository so it required installing from a Debian package from their site.

root@computer:$
apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.460_all.deb
dpkg -i -y webmin_1.460_all.deb
apt-get -y install -f
rm webmin_1.460_all.deb

These commands are for a root terminal.

The Webmin being installed is an older version, change the .deb package name for the latest version.

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