my 2 cents
From 6 to 7: export GEM_HOME=/opt/ruby_gems export LC_ALL=C gem1.8 uninstall mysql gem1.8 install mysql —version=2.8.1 From 7 to 8: export GEM_HOME=/opt/ruby_gems export LC_ALL=C gem1.8 uninstall passenger gem1.8 install passenger apt-get install apache2-dev /opt/ruby_gems/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module Plus adjustments in the corresponding module config … Read More »
This applies to a default (=debian-packages) installation of Xen on “squeeze” using LVM for storage management. Tested with these package versions: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64: 4.0.1-5.5 xen-tools: 4.2-1 Choose a name for the DomU host and select the LVM volume group to be … Read More »
Linux: Get List of Installed Software for Reinstallation / Restore All the Software Programs
the following steps are required to adjust a fresh ubuntu to my personal language-preferences, including the default character encoding for gnome-terminal set to UTF-8 install the required packages to generate the appropriate locales: sudo aptitude install language-pack-de-base language-pack-de set the … Read More »
hp-snmp-agents error: Service snmp has to be enabled to start service hp-snmp-agents If you get an error like: Setting up hp-snmp-agents (8.5.0.1.1-2) … insserv: Service snmp has to be enabled to start service hp-snmp-agents insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv … Read More »
this is based on redmine-1.0.0 we need a more recent version of rails and rubygems than those shipped with lenny, so first add the backports-repository to your sources.list: deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free then, update your package list: sudo … Read More »
aptitude has a specific list-category to display those when using the curses-GUI, but I do not like it. fortunately, you can use the search-command from the cli-interface with the appropriate search-pattern: aptitude search “?obsolete” or as a shorthand: aptitude search … Read More »
to restore a dump from a MySQL database created on a debianish Linux system, just feed the dumped SQL to the command-line mysql client like this: mysql -u root -p < mysql-all-2010-03-28-0515.sql since the whole content of all MySQL databases … Read More »
“schroot” is a secure chroot tool that allows a non-privileged user on a system to switch to a chroot in a secure manner. This can be used to set up automated builds etc. that don’t have to run as root. … Read More »
want to know which files in /etc have been changed on your debian-like Linux system? one part can be done with the package debsums, which compares the md5sums delivered with a debian-package with those of the current files: $ sudo … Read More »