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Compiling Dropbox client under Debian Squeeze

cj2003 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:58:30 +0000

I was recently invited into Dropbox cloud file sharing service by a friend of mine and as it usually happens – you can install client easy in Ubuntu and Fedora, but not in Debian. To be more precise, Dropbox ships only deb file for Ubuntu, which did not work for me, because of the depenendy to libnautilus-extension1 library More here

Compiling VLC 1.0.6 from Source on Debian Lenny 64 bit

cj2003 — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:47:21 +0000

This guide is intended as an introduction to compiling software from source, with the added benefit that the result is something very useful –an up-to-date media player– to the typical user. I have written it in a chronological form, from the moment of downloading the package up to the moment the final tests on the compiled software have been finished. More here

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny With Coloured Interface

cj2003 — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:31:13 +0000

rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system – contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. More here

In the previous howto patches for magnet link support were provided. With the current revision 1169 magnet link support has already been integrated. However some of the inner workings were changed and the colour patch was modified to work in the current revision.

Compile and Install Latest VLC in Debian Lenny

cj2003 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:55:28 +0000

This tutorial will show how to compile and install the latest VLC from source in Debian Lenny in several steps. The current version at the time of writing is VLC 1.0.1, so the tutorial should work successfully for it. Read more here

Compiling for your N900 on debian

cj2003 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:20:58 +0000

Only snag is the pre-built version didn’t support long sms’s, so I needed to patch and re-compile. That means needing an arm cross-compiler, the build environment etc. More here

Since it runs linux, the fact that the official software doesn’t support it isn’t the end of the world. Handily, someone’s written a small sms importer program that reads in the sms’s from the S60 pc-suite csv export, and loads them onto the phone.

How To Create A .DEB Package

cj2003 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:53:40 +0000

This article wants to be an introduction to creating .deb packages, meaning I will not get into more advanced procedures like creating a menu entry, custom configuration, explaining the rules file and so on because this how-to would have ~20 pages or so. More here

Compile Aria2c on Debian Linux

cj2003 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:58:41 +0000

Aria2 is a fast download utility that you use in the Command Prompt or xterm. To compile aria2 for Linux, install the following packages. More here

Although Debian 5.0 Lenny has libc-ares2, Debian 4.0 Etch and Debian 3.1 Sarge don’t have it. As a user of Debian Sarge, I had to compile c-ares myself to enable asynchronous DNS resolution in Aria2c. I downloaded c-ares source from c-ares.haxx.se and compiled it statically.

Rebuilding Debian Packages from Source

cj2003 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:50:35 +0000

This quickie howto will explain the steps necessary to recompile a Debian software package on the local machine from source code. More here

Rebuilding Debian software packages is necessary in order to enable custom features in some software packages and/or is sometimes done to ensure that the software has been optimally compiled for running with the best possible performance on specific hardware.

To Compile wpa_supplicant on Debian 3.1 Sarge

cj2003 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:22:20 +0000

I was using good old Debian Linux 3.1 Sarge when I found out Sarge’s wpasupplicant couldn’t work well with ndiswrapper-supported Windows network drivers More here

So I set out to compile wpa_supplicant on my own. First, I installed the following development packages.

gcc-3.4
libssl0.9.7
make

Building Inkscape on Debian: Easy as 1, 2, 11 (ish)!

cj2003 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:01:02 +0000

On my brand new, very cool Jolicloud installation, I needed to use Inkscape for some vector work. However, the version of Inkscape in the repositories is 0.46, which does not feature the toolbar menu More here

I decided to take the adventurous step of building Inkscape from source. It’ s not actually too difficult if you have experience with building software.

Before you start, make sure that you have the C++ toolchain installed: sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf.