Ubuntu Hoary with F-Spot, Evince & more

Installed F-Spot on my Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 system at home this evening to see if I could duplicate some of the problems I’ve been reading about on the forum. No problems were noted during or after the compiled install as seen with this screenshot. At one point an sqlite dev package was needed but [...]

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SuSE 9 Amarok 1.2 equalizer grey out

The next few links are downloads. Get
Amarok 1.2, Amarok-xine and libxine.
su
rpm –nodeps -Uvh *.rpm
bogofilter (0.93.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* If this is a new installation, or if you are upgrading from a
version prior to 0.93.0-1, you should have no problems. If,
on the other hand, you [...]

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latest grading

Selecting previously deselected package update-notifier.
Unpacking update-notifier (from …/update-notifier_0.38.7_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package xorg-driver-synaptics.
Unpacking xorg-driver-synaptics (from …/xorg-driver-synaptics_0.13.6-0ubuntu4_ i386.deb) …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xorg-driver-synaptics_0.13.6-0ubu ntu4_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/synclient’, which is also in package xfree86-driv er-synaptics
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntu-desktop.
Unpacking ubuntu-desktop (from …/ubuntu-desktop_0.33_i386.deb) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xorg-driver-synaptics_0.13.6-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
Failed to [...]

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sonance

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.go-mono.com:/mono
cvs login
cvs co gst-sharp
cd gst-sharp
./autogen.sh
./configure –prefix=/usr/bin
make
sudo make install
sudo cp /usr/bin/lib/pkgconfig/gst-sharp.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig
svn checkout svn+ssh://anonymous@forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/sonance/trunk/sonance
anonymous *****for password*******
anonymous *****enter twice********
cd sonance
./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr/bin
make
sudo make install
INSERT INTO Tracks VALUES (null, ‘/home/macewan/mp3/trans-siberian orchestra – Beethoven’’s 5th.mp3′, ‘application/x-id3′, ‘Trans-Siberian Orchestra’, null, ‘0′, ‘Beethoven&apos’, ‘Symphonic Rock’, ‘1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM’, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘178′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM’)
INSERT INTO [...]

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SuSE 9.0 KDE 3.4 & Amarok 1.2

MIXER – My wife upgraded her system to KDE 3.4 & Amarok 1.2 this evening.
Plug 1 – Amarok The amaroK Development Team is very proud to present amaroK 1.2. This release marks the crown of our work so far, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. amaroK has recently been voted [...]

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Upgrading/Testing/Breaking my Ubuntu

alsa-lib (1.0.7-1) unstable; urgency=high
Some users might encounter problems getting their sound cards to work
when using alsa-lib version 1.0.6 or 1.0.7 along with Linux kernel
2.6.8.1. (The latter is the kernel that Debian plans to ship with
sarge. Users of Linux 2.4 are not affected by this problem [...]

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Gazpacho:: Next Generation GUI Design

Gazpacho is a fresh new GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit designed to be ultra easy to use.
It is strongly inspired by the Glade project but it is written from scratch using the Python language. As a result there are few lines of code to read, understand and to maintain!
One of the goals of the [...]

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