Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
Installing Feisty Fawn
Gone is mandriva, replaced by Kubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.0.4). Let me see what the fuss is all about..
Linux vs Windows
Came to conclusion that I can’t subsitute one for the other. I need them both. The linux evangelists preach that one should avoid the evil empire’s products (CSE lectures). I found it impossible to do my daily stuffs without windows tho, especially in the area of gaming, of course can always use wine (transmeta support many games, but it’s subscription based..), but will it work for every games and who can be bothered really? Hardware support, I don’t think linux can compete with win yet, altho I am really impressed with Mandriva 2006, usb disk plug and play, wireless card configured with minor effort and i didnt even do any samba set up and it just connects to my windows network effortlessly.
Linux is still somehow my prefered programming environment, not sure why.. Maybe it’s got that geeky flavour. During this assignment time, my work corner at home will consist of my PC ru
ing XP for opening prolog manuals sometimes Gunbound and on its right is my laptop on Mandriva 2006 where I do my programming. Sort of emulating dual monitors, except that it’s actually 2 different workstations.. hm.. KVM!
4th attempt
4th attempt on installing Linux on my laptop. Have tried Suse 9.2, Mandriva and Fedora 4. Now is Mandriva 2006’s turn. Hope it will work.
1:33am : Yay! it works! Finally a linux running on my laptop hoorray, now time to finetune here and there..I dont expect everything to work properly.
xine on fedora
Hm, I wonder why fedora 3 doesnt include Xine for its media player. Had to go through the hassle of installing the rpm yesterday, about 5 libraries to install before it allows me to install xine itself. Oh well another Linux classic, in order to get something to work, you need to get other things to work first. maybe i should give Yum a go, i tried yesterday, but it didn’t go anywhere, didn’t have time to figure out how it works. Did I use yum before? I remember doing something similar in Mandrake.
Apache in Fedora
D’oh the apache webserver doesn’t work straight out of the box in Fedora. I got an error when trying to start the service, looking at the log file, it was complaining that dhcppc0 (apparently that’s the name of my computer) has no IPv4 address. Solution: adding dhcppc0 to /etc/hosts.
Then access to localhost/~user doesn’t work, apparently I need to modify mod_userdir line on httpd.conf to enable userdir on public_html. But it still doesn’t work, another look at the log, I figured out that it’s a permission problem. Eventho public_html has the right permission but /home/user doesn’t. Anyway at least it’s working fine now.
Switching to Fedora Core 3
I am changing my distro to Fedora Core 3 from Mandrake 10.1 just now.. I miss KDE, Core uses Gnome, I’ll try KDE after this, Core 4 has KDE 3.4, will update once I get the DVD.
My WinXP partititions don’t get mounted automatically just like Mandrake. Hm hm. The font does look better, du
o why.
Port scanning
As root, nmap can be used to scan ports on a system, the command is:
map -p 1-65535 192.168.0.1nwhere -p specifies the range of port that will be sca
ed.
source:nlinuxdevcenter
Sunday Morning
Installed wine and winetools “quite” succesfuly, managed to install IE 6 using winetools, it looks ugly, the font is weird.. nevertheless at least now I can see wine at work.
Tried to install Counter Strike last nite but it gave me “System DLLs not found” error, still trying to look for solution via googling but found none so far, a bit tired of wine at the moment 
Ballsmacker game that I tried to install before, has already been installed, but it crashed whenever I use the mouse to shoot a ball and then leave my mouse unusable -> thus need to restart >how MT template howto.
Will go to church in an hour or so, wife is preparing coffee and breakfast now.. hmm coffee.
Wine
I don’t know why I am now going in to the painful process on trying to get wine to work on Linux so that I can run M$ programs on it.. Well, it would be nice to be able to play M$ games on Linux, that way during my break from coding in Linux I can pay em..
GIMP 2.0 Installation
In the process of installing GIMP 2.0 now, I should’ve known better, it won’t be as easy as installing the rpm package provided, some requirements need to be met first.
1. GTK 2.2 or higher is needed, and I am d/l-ing the 2.6, it also needs Glib, ATK and Pango. So there you go, just need GTK but ended up needing three more packages to be installed. nAs expected spent few hours trying to figure out why ATK and Pango can’t find Glib that I have installed. It has to do with setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the right “pkgconfig” directory, I think it should be under /usr/local/lib/glib2.0/pkgconfig if you install it by default, however the link here shows me a clearer way doing it. It’s 23.29, GTK is still compiling.. sigh, RPM, we need RPM!!!n2. It’s 00.05, finally GIMP is compiling, was having stoopid mistake by wrongly set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH, which resulted in a message similar like this pkg-config -modversion finds glib 2.2.3 but GLIB (2.2.5) installed. I also compile GIMP with options –without lib-tiff and –gimpprint (something like that), since I can’t be bothered to install both packages, I won’t be needing them anyway.
Well, I hope this helps folks, I can’t wait to get my hands on GIMP 2.0 mainly because I want to install fonts that don’t work with earlier GIMP.
Sweet.. It’s now 00.19, GIMP 2.0 fired up smoothly, it’s installed as /usr/local/bin/gimp-1.3. The interface is quite different from 1.2, was trying to type in a text, it’s done differently from the prev version.. Hm there’s an adjustment to make then, but I just look over it quickly, it looks more sturdy and visually better than the prev vers. I am happy now I can sleep in peace.
