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Happy new year

muammar — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:01:20 +0000

I just wanted to wish to all readers of planet Debian and the Debian project itself, a Happy new year 2012!

I am getting older

muammar — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:34:13 +0000

Well, today I am getting older. I am 26 now. I am singing this song for me:
They Might Be Giants — Older
You’re older than you’ve ever been.
And now you’re even older.
And now you’re even older.
And now you’re even older.
You’re older than you’ve ever been.
And now you’re even older.
And now you’re older still.
TIME! Is marching on.
And time.. is still marching on.
This day will soon be at an end and now it’s even sooner.
And now it’s even sooner.
And now it’s even sooner.
This day will soon be at an end and now it’s even sooner.
And now it’s even sooner.
And now it’s sooner still.
You’re older than you’ve ever been.
And now you’re even older.
And now you’re even older.
And now you’re even older.
You’re older than you’ve ever been.
And now you’re even older.
And now you’re older still.

Installing Adobe Air in Debian AMD 64 (TweetDeck can be used)

muammar — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:53:15 +0000

I love twitting using TweetDeck. So that, I started to investigate how to install Adobe Air in Debian AMD64 and, it was a real pain in the ass. I have found a way of installing it in Debian AMD64.
First of all, you need to install the following packages:

$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 libc6 libc6-i386 lib32nss-mdns libcanberra-gtk-module

After installing them, we have to create some symlinks from the location of some of those libraries in /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/ to /usr/lib32/. For accomplishing it, do the next:

$ cd /usr/lib32/
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libnss3.so .
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libssl3.so .
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libsmime3.so .
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libnspr4.so .
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d .
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d .
$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libplds4.so .

In the case that you have problems with libplds4.so.0d, create the symlink like this:

$sudo ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d libplds4.so.0d

Now, it is time to download Adobe AIR (in this case version 1.5).

$wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Once it is downloaded, we have to make the .bin file an executable:

$ sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Then, we can proceed to install it:

$ sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

If you get an error like this:

Error loading the runtime (libnss3.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64)

It means that you haven’t done the symlink from /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libnss3.so to /usr/lib32/ correctly or that you haven’t installed the library which is missed (‘apt-file search’ is your friend).
If everything goes fine, then the last steps are:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32

Note: make a symlink if you prefer.
And for TweetDeck I had to do this:
Download libgnome-keyring0 for 32 bits (in this example I used the one from SID, if you are using testing, download the one from that release that you are using), extract it with dpkg and copy the libraries to /usr/lib32:

$ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-keyring/libgnome-keyring0_2.28.2-1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg-deb -x libgnome-keyring0_2.28.2-1_i386.deb libgnome-keyring0_2.28.2-1
$ sudo cp libgnome-keyring0_2.28.2-1/usr/lib/* /usr/lib32/

Then install TweetDeck (http://tweetdeck.com/download/) and Enjoy
Note: If you find any problem, please do not hesitate to write a comment so that I can help you or we can improve this post.

Things that happens when you don’t know what you are talking about

muammar — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:32:00 +0000

In Debian, if there exists a bug in a version of a package in SID (let’s take as an example GRUB2 version 1.97+20091125-1), and it has a severity marked as Critical, then it won’t touch testing until such a bug is fixed… It is as simple as that.
What happen when?:
a) You are not sure which Debian release you are using.
b) You are not sure how Debian handles bugs reported with severity: critical.
Answer: http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2009/11/27/debian-wtf
:S

error: you need to load the linux kernel first

muammar — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:50:00 +0000

If you are getting the problem which is written in the title of this post related to a recent upgrade in Debian SID of GRUB2 to version 1.97+20091125-1, then you have to modify your grub.cfg and remove the /boot/ part of the entries referred to the kernel image and initrd in the grub.cfg configuration file.
For more info: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558042

On email addresses. Is there an impact?

muammar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:11:00 +0000

I have been reading comments on Sandro’s post about the use of email addresses. I am not sure about what he really wanted to express exactly, because I can’t see anything wrong when someone from other distro upload a package into the archive and they use their distro’s mail addresses so it is clear that I don’t agree with the first point of his post. Now, regarding the second point, I don’t understand why when being a DD and an Ubuntu Developer at the same time some people prefer uploading to Debian archive using @ubuntu.com but well, anyone is free of doing what they think is correct and this is not something which is in the policy so it’s OK. But reading the first point made by Stefano’s post made me understand why.
I got surprised when I read the Jon’s post about debian kernel contributors and I looked for the word debian in http://lwn.net/Articles/247582/ and nothing was found. I subscribed for a while, just for curiosity, in the Linux Kernel Mailing List and I was able to read some mails from people I know they are in Debian and just because the patches weren’t signed off with debian mail addresses Debian does not appear in such a post at lwn.net. I’d like to add that, for not being misunderstood, I do respect all kernel contributors, because their contributions are really important for the whole community and we are aware of Debian’s contributions. My point is that it should be accepted that there exists an impact when using one or another email address and it should be considered (when you are part of both projects, in this case, Debian and Ubuntu).

Exchange

muammar — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:12:18 +0000

Well, I was so tired of my mini hp 2133 that I decided to exchange it or selling it. The main reason of this is the lack of Linux support from VIA (No 3d acceleration, no free driver for Wifi, etc). I was looking at http://www.mercadolibre.com.ve/ and I found a guy who was selling/exchanging a G1. When I saw that, I thought: this could be the chance to get a G1 without using the credit card . So I contact this guy, I met him at La Vereda del Lago de Maracaibo and after checking both devices we made the exchange.
I have to say that I am happy with the exchange because I was using a Motorola w180 which is a fuckin’ shame of phone. Besides, the G1 is in very good shape.
The G1 is a very amused phone. I had to reset it. Such a process was very easy. I followed the procedure at http://www.androidcentral.com/factory-reset-tmobile-g1/
It’s time to go to bed now, or I hope so . I think I have done a good exchange, don’t you think so?

Flash player in Google Chrome for Linux

muammar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:31:07 +0000

I have downloaded today last version of Google chrome for 32 bits , in the machine I use at work, via APT using the http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ repository. In the about:linux-splash there said:
Plugins (e.g. Flash) are partway implemented and will cause frequent crashes. Use to turn them on if you’re ok with that; the browser is otherwise quite stable.
I created a directory called plugins/ into /opt/google/chrome/ then I made a symlink to libflashplayer.so:

# ln -s ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so .

After doing that, I launched it:

$ google-chrome –enable-plugins

Nice…

Google Chrome in Debian

muammar — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:46:00 +0000

There are some deb packages at:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

The problem I am facing is related to the accents (for Spanish) and with apostrophes (for English). I have to add, that I am running amd64 and when you install Google Chrome it depends on these packages: ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32nss-mdns lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 so it is not a 64 bit native version at all. Well, it is not a secret that they do not support 64 that much. Maybe this is not a news, but I had not stumbled into those deb packages until some minutes ago.

Open Chrome = Wireless problem in HP 2133?

muammar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:50:59 +0000

I had almost two weeks without Wireless connection in my HP 2133. Due of the fact of being busy doing other stuff, it was today until I had time to try something. So, I proceeded to google it and I found a bug in Launchpad about it. There was said that the problem was caused by Open Chrome driver. I have to accept that when I read it I was kind of skeptic. I thought: What has to do a Video Driver with a Wi Fi microcode not responding? (real translation: WTF is this?)
So, I open a terminal. I went to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and I change the only line in xorg.conf (new version of XORG was able to recognize the Video Card and it was working right without using the bunch of options and sections as you can see in http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/HP/HP2133 , except the fact that Wi Fi stopped working) to this:

Section “Device”
Identifier “VESA”
Driver “vesa”
BusID “PCI:1:0:0″
Screen 0
Option “ActiveDevice” “LCD,CRT”
Option “ForceLCD”
Option “SWCursor” “True”
EndSection

I restarted the machine, because I had fucked off Wicd trying to get connected to the Wireless Router and there wasn’t any way to get it work again, and when I entered my XFCE4 session and tried the Wireless it just worked again… shit.. I can’t understand. That was weird. So for the record. If you are getting this problem to get connected with your HP 2133 using either Debian or Ubuntu, given that you got it working before, so change the driver in the Device section from Open Chrome to VESA and you should get the problem solved. I tested it in Debian Unstable.