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Update Manager problems

04.18.2012 · Posted in Linux

I have upgraded my LMDE to Pack 4 (running Cinnamon). I found that when using Update Manager it complains … like below. —————————————————— dpkg: warning: ‘ldconfig’ not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: warning: ‘start-stop-daemon’ not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable. ...

Help Me

04.17.2012 · Posted in Linux

File Name:File1.txt SrcDir =…/system File Permission user group directory File f 0644 root sys etc/eco.conf {SrcDir}/etc/eco1.conf i have 100 f and directory i want to copy the eco1.conf to directory etc with eco.conf name. i have declare as variable in script and taken file1 as input file.when i try with this i got error. Thanks ...

install phpmyadmin

04.14.2012 · Posted in Linux

hi, im using rhel6, want to inatll phpmyadmin. i had configured epel and remi repos but while im installing with yum commmand it says some dependencies failed. so i want to download phpmyadmin and instll it manually by keeping it /var/www/html folder and create some conf file for it. but practically i never did it ...

problem running LEACH in ns-2.34

04.13.2012 · Posted in Linux

Hi all ! I have completed mit/LEACH installation on ns-2.34 as per the given instructions. Leach seems to run but with the following command window output, troublesome is Event UID not valid. As far as the warning is concerned, I have made changes in all the three files i.e. uAMPS.tcl, ns-default.tcl and wireless-phy.cc and run ...

More bash help.

04.10.2012 · Posted in Linux

Sorry to keep bugging you guys about this stuff. I now have a backup script that works for everything except one small part. This backup script can rsync and create a tarball to push out to a mount point with zero issues, but when i try to push the tarball via ftp, it craps out ...

LXer: How To Install GIMP 2.8 RC1 In Ubuntu

04.07.2012 · Posted in Linux

Published at LXer: GIMP 2.8 will bring major new features including single-window mode, layer groups and on-canvas text editing. Just few days back, GIMP 2.8 RC1 was released which is probably last snapshot before final version 2.8 is available. GIMP PPA by Matt Walker has not been updated with latest packages yet. However, Strycore has ...

failed to boot the “startx”

04.05.2012 · Posted in Linux

When i enter the startx command. then show me as below information: there is some contents of log file. ‘/var/log/Xorg.0.log " [dix] could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, removing form list! [dix] could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1, removing from list! [dix] could not init font path elemtn /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list! [dix] ...

pthread not found when compiling vbox for Slackware

04.02.2012 · Posted in Linux

I downloaded VirtualBox from slackbuilds.org and when I executed the slackbuild, I got this error Code: Checking for mkisofs: found mkisofs 3.01a02 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Eric Youngdale (C) 1997-2010 Joerg Schilling, OK. Checking for pthread:   pthread not found at -lpthread or pthread headers not found   Check the file /tmp/SBo/VirtualBox-4.1.8_OSE/configure.log for detailed error ...

debian on flash drive?

04.01.2012 · Posted in Linux

Well I read on their site that the main way was just treat the flash drive as a regular hard drive and install it on there… so I went ahead and did that (keep in mind other OS’s do work fine) and everytime I try to install it, whether graphical.. or not.. or automatic.. I ...

WPA2, unable to setup wpa_supplicant with ndiswrapper

03.30.2012 · Posted in Linux

Just about ready to pull my hair out :banghead: I successfully installed ndiswrapper for my WMP11v4 wireless adaptor, Chipset: Inprocomm IPN2120 Problem is now after I set the wpa_supplicant.conf it doesn’t seem to let me use my wpa2 network. How do I configure for wpa2 networks? slackware 13.37 card is: wlan0 wpa_supplicant.conf: Code: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 ...

nam error: node 5 not defined

03.29.2012 · Posted in Linux

i am using ns 2.35 on ubuntu 11.10. the code i am running uses energy model to vary the color of wireless nodes with depleting energy the nam file generates fine but while executing the terminal shows the following error: node 5 is not defined…node 5 is not defined over and over also only one ...

[CentOS 5.8] GTK2+

03.25.2012 · Posted in Linux

Hey All, I’m having some annoying problem with GTK2. As I’m trying to run some application, I receive the following error: Code: dfxshell: symbol lookup error: dfxshell: undefined symbol: gtk_builder_new My guess would be that I need to upgrade my gtk version to a newer version than: Code: rpm -qa | grep -i gtk2 pygtk2-2.10.1-12.el5 ...

LXer: Short Linux and Open Source news overview for week 12 of 2012

03.24.2012 · Posted in Linux

Published at LXer: This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 12 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes the release of the 3.3 linux kernel, IM in thunderbird?, Cyanogenmod disables root access and more! Read More… LinuxQuestions.org ...

Question about GNU GPL licence

03.21.2012 · Posted in Linux

If you are a developer and you want to publish your code under GNU GPL, how can you do it? It is legal just to add Code: <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>     This program is ...