If you jump from one distribution to another and then back to an older version one of the gotcha's can be that later versions on newer distro's can change your Subversion Working Copy repository data so it's unaccessible from the older distro. Case in point: On Ubuntu...
Open Source Apps
LedgerSMB – Changing Invoice to “Tax Invoice”
This is done on Fedora 10. File paths may change depending on what install package or location you install to. On Fedora 10 the path is LSMB_ROOT=/usr/share/ledgersmb To maintain an orginal untouched set of templates you should always copy the demo templates away to a...
Changing the LedgerSMB Letter Head Graphic
Make a backup of the original demo templates cp -rv /var/lib/ledgersmb/templates/demo /var/lib/ledgersmb/templates/template1 # on Ubuntu this was sudo cp -rv /etc/ledgersmb/templates/demo /etc/ledgersmb/templates/template1 Go into the LedgerSMB admin control panel and...
LedgerSMB Installation on Fedora 10 Notes
Overview Starting from Fedora 10 Live Installed to Harddisk. This is a a record of the chronological steps with all the errors I encountered along the way. As such it is a kind of messy and in a as it happened style. I will flesh these notes out as I have time. Email...
Error Installing SimpleInvoices
Fail I haven't been able to install SI on U8.10 there are alot of problems with the Ubuntu 8.10 enviroment. Incorrect mysql_pdo modules etc... Nightmare ... SI installs fine on Fedora 10. Problem: On Ubuntu 8.10 Server I get "Warning: Smarty::include()...
How not to choke your internet connection while downloading with wget
wget has a cool feature known as limit-rate. If you want to leave a bit of bandwidth for other things then use it with double u get. wget -c -t 100 --limit-rate=80k http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/8.10/ubuntu-8.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso The above means -c...
Installing WxPerl on Ubuntu 8.04
Using apt-get or synaptic install lynx libwxgtk2.8 libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev Test::POD::Coverage As root run CPAN with the command to install wx. You may have to configure CPAN prior to using it. I chose to follow dependencies and kept most of the defaults. sudo...
plink.exe – Unable to read from standard input: The handle is invalid.
I am currently writing a small wxPerl application on Windows that will take user input and then send that input via ssh to a Linux server for further processing. I am using PuTTY's command line component plink.exe for this. To stop the wxPerl program launching a DOS...
xsane “Failed to create file: Permission Denied” error
Today I tried to run xsane as my normal account and it didn't detect my scanner. I traced the problem to insufficient permissions because my account wasn't a member of the "scanner" group, hence, because I didn't have permission to the scanner devices xsane wouldn't...
Google Chrome – Please click File, Save As Linux
Google Chrome is out and it's only currently available on Windows. However not one to be peturbed by the tiresome differences between Windows and Linux I've got it installed on Wine 1.1.4. thanks to this page. The only issue at the moment is that it won't load https...