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Installing Saxon-HE 9.3 manually on Lucid Lynx 13 Jul 2011 | 06:38 am
Because Ubuntu didn't see my manual installation of the Oracle Java JDK as a valid Java alternative I couldn't install Saxon-B using apt-get install. Instead of trying to find a solution to this issue...
Installing Apache FOP manually on Lucid Lynx 13 Jul 2011 | 06:21 am
Since I had installed Oracle Java installed manually without a single problem I decided to install Apache FOP manually as well. Also because when I tried to install it via sudo apt-get install fop it ...
SSH client time out 13 Jul 2011 | 02:52 am
Nearly a week ago I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on my development system and I am still installing software I need for my work on it and configuring the system. Today I restored the .ssh ...
Manual installation of Oracle Java JDK on Ubuntu 13 Jul 2011 | 12:56 am
In the evening I installed the Oracle Java JDK on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. Since Oracle Java is no longer available via the default repositories I decided to manually install Java instead of adding a reposi...
Emacs with anti-aliased fonts 12 Jul 2011 | 09:34 am
On the previous installation of Ubuntu on my Dell Vostro I used a snapshot version of Emacs to have much better looking anti-aliased fonts while editing. Today, in the afternoon, when I checked the de...
Installing VLC media player on Lucid Lynx 12 Jul 2011 | 09:34 am
In the evening I installed VLC media player 1.1.10 "The Luggage" on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The latter I had freshly installed yesterday on my Dell Vostro 200 ST. Instead of installing the outdated 1.0.6 ve...
µTorrent Server 3.0 alpha for 64-bit Linux 11 Jul 2011 | 09:22 am
In the evening I decided to install the 64 bit 3.0 alpha of µTorrent Server on my Dell Vostro 200 ST running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Earlier this week I had checked if the program would even run on m...
Subversion with Apache and SSL on Ubuntu 11 Jul 2011 | 07:43 am
In the afternoon I installed Subversion on my Dell Vostro running Lucid Lynx. Yesterday I had done a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.02 LTS and in order to be able to do some work I really ha...
Making Emacs Org mode exporting to PDF work on Ubuntu 7 Jul 2011 | 02:23 am
A week ago I received "The Org Mode 7 Reference Manual", published by Network Theory Ltd as a reward for some Perl programming help I had given. I had already been reading parts of the book and so far...
Backup each MySQL database to a separate file bash script 9 Jun 2011 | 08:19 am
Today, while still preparing for the reinstall of a more recent version of Ubuntu I wrote a small bash script to backup each MySQL database to a separate file. I have not much experience with writing ...
