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Brew Wine on MacOS Ugly Fonts

Wine 3.0.1 MacOS 10.13.5 If you have recently done a brew install wine and found that suddenly your fonts are ugly. A work-a-round is: to remove the current version of XQuartz (2.7.11) and downgrade to XQuartz-2.7.9.dmg install the wine stable version...

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Class XMLReader does not exist

Just on the Joomla 3.8.8 "You have post-installation messages" page and when I click the "Read Messages" button I get taken to a page with an error message: At the moment I have plenty of XML modules installed but not the one I need: php -m |...

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PHP7.2 Image Magick

On a brew installed php7.2 on my MacOS 10.13.5 I get an error when running /usr/local/php5/bin/php from the command line: Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/imagick.so' (tried:...

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Insync on Ubuntu 18.04

I had some small issues getting the insync client running on a fresh (defaults install) of Ubuntu 18.04 to install insync-nautilus Unfortunately the standard Ubuntu 18.04 deb package doesn't add a list file for the insync repo so you can't enable nautilus integration...

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