Nov

4

Debian Lenny: updating to SVN 1.6.4

November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

Working with Windwos users on my SVN repository, I needed to upgrade SVN to match with their Tortoise version. Here are the steps to do so:

add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list
1deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

get the public key from lenny-backports running the following command
1wget -O – http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -

run aptitude update
install subversion [...]

Jun

7

Debian: Naming USB devices with uDev

June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment

I use three different small backup drives as three backup volumes. I turn them on on sunday, the backup scripts runs overnight, and I turn them off on monday morning. I’ve shared the backup script in a previous post.
The problem is that the backup script  starts by mounting the backup drives. It expects them to [...]

Apr

15

Debian: remove unused packages

April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

Two days ago, I ran into a strange problem with my email server which refused to send any more emails. It turned out my hard drive was full… I started by emptying the tmp directory and running aptitude clean and aptitude autoclean but that wasn’t enough to free enough space to allow me to breathe [...]

Apr

15

Debian, read the bootup messages

April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

While Debian boots, several warning, error or information messages appear and quickly disappear from the screen. If you wish to log these messages in order to consult them later on, you need to enable the bootlog by editing a single configuration file.
1vi /etc/default/bootlogd
The file should say something like
1BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No
Simply ,change it to
1BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes
You should now have these [...]

Apr

14

Access Subsonic via Apache

April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

I have setup Subsonic on my server last week as a standalone applicaiton. That means that Subsonic runs its own webserver. The only drawback of this method of deployment is that, to access the application, I had to type http://<subsonic server>:8080.
To access Subsonic while using port 80, I enabled the mod_proxy and added a VirtualHost [...]

Feb

18

Debian: from Etch to Lenny

February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today (or yesterday as I write), Debian Lenny was released. If you with to upgrade, the procedure is as follow:

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurences of “etch” by “lenny”
run apt-get update or aptitude update
run aptitude upgrade
run aptitude dist-upgrade

The little discovery I made tonight was that apt needed keys to update the package list. Sometimes these [...]

Oct

24

Scanning for virus

October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

So now we have a backup system archiving our valuable data weekly. The problem is, these data come from different computers running different OS, some of them also come from friend’s computers or even the World Wide Web. The problem is that we can not guarantee that these files are virus free. But at least, [...]

Oct

18

Backup system

October 18, 2008 | 4 Comments

In the Spring, our DV camera died on us. As for most electronic devices, it was not worth fixing, so we saved money and got a new Canon DV Camera and started filming show openings again for various artists. Last month, we also returned from our holidays in America with something like 2000 new pictures. [...]

Jun

14

KDE4 on Debian Sid

June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Well, with a running Debian Sid distribution, I am all set to test KDE 4. The installation process is simple enough but, before getting into it, remove any previous version of KDE. Here is how I’ve done it :
I added references to experimental in /etc/apt/sources.list:
12deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib [...]

Jun

14

Debian: from testing to unstable

June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

KDE 4 has been announced for a long time and, since I first heard of it, I subscribed to the mailing list. I keep hearing about the new features the kde team for this new version and I’m really anxious to try out. Finally two days ago, I decided I wanted to install the beta [...]

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