Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” has been released as “stable”. Congratulations and thank you for all the hard work, Debian release team, Debian CD team, Debian Developers, and all Debian contributors! mshuler@kokopelli:~$ apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free origin security.debian.org 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib origin security.debian.org [...]
Well, since I didn’t have a whole lot of time invested in my install as in the previous post, and since I did not quickly sort out why the heck I could not suspend/lock with the KDE power manager widget, I thought I would give the weekly build of the Lenny KDE install disk a [...]
(and quite a bit of biography..) Over the years, I have had a lot of fun with highly customized Linux installs for my desktop and laptop computing, but in the last 3-4 years, I have grown to enjoy the simplicity of sticking as close to the default configuration of ${MY_CAREFULLY_SELECTED_DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT}, only making a few minor [...]
Case-sensitivity is painful with VFAT.. I would have put a real filesystem on my new external hard drive, but I thought it would be nice to plug it into anyone’s box and be able to read/write.. Syncing up my audio directory failed when many upper-case ‘CD1′, ‘CD2′, etc directories were created in lower-case, as well [...]
Just a quick cheat-sheet for myself: # aptitude install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev python-dev build-essential swig autoconf snmp bind9-host python-setuptools # adduser zenoss # mkdir /usr/local/zenoss # chown zenoss /usr/local/zenoss # su – zenoss $ vi ~/.bashrc # add a few env vars: export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss export PYTHONPATH=$ZENHOME/lib/python export PATH=$ZENHOME/bin:$PATH $ source ~/.bashrc $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenoss/zenoss-2.1.2-0.tar.gz $ tar [...]