Now that there is some content here, I added myself to the Planet Debian blog aggregator. Sorry for my weird head image, the shadow looked much better in Gimp. I’ll have to correct that on another day…
Thanks to Holger Levsen for pointing me at the wiki entry which describes how a Debian developer can add [...]
I got a new computer at home a week ago and finally got around to assemble all the parts. Which wasn’t as easy as expected, especially fitting the CPU cooler was a hard fight.
Specs
For the curious, here are the specs:
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4×3.4 GHz)
Mainboard
MSI 790GX-G65
Graphics
ATI Radeon HD 3300 (on-board)
RAM
8 GB, DDR3
Hard drives
2x SATA [...]
For the roundcube packages I wrote about before, I needed a lenny build system. I did not want to load the required packages to the production server. I used to use debootstrap for this but I wanted to keep a clean base system without copying around all the time.
After a bit of searching, I stumbled [...]
As mentioned in my previous post, I created packages of roundcube webmail version 0.3.1 for Debian lenny. The original purpose was to have a better webmail interface at my company.
These packages may also be of interest to other Debian users, therefore I make them available here:
Roundcube packages
jQuery package
Everything else you need is available at backports.org, [...]
For testing packages of RoundCube webmail that I backported from Debian unstable to stable (lenny), I tried to install lenny in a virtualbox machine.
But for some reason, the installation reliably freezes at some (variable) point. The last time (I think on the 4th run), the final state shows a progress bar titled “Select and install [...]
Today the question came up at work if it is allowed to have extra commas in debian/control dependency fields as in
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlib:Depends}
The substitution misc:Depends may well be empty. So is this allowed?
It actually is as Tollef Fog Heen quickly replied on IRC (thanks). It is also covered by a test case in the dpkg [...]
While researching the UMTS stick to buy for our Acer Aspire One netbook, I stumbled across some postings about using the Vodafone UMTS stick with Linux (see here (german)).
That forum discussion contains a link to https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/ where you can find “Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux is a GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA device manager written in Python, [...]