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How to find out what Debian packages you have installed [www.debian.org]

I finally figured this out:

To learn the status of all the packages installed on a Debian system, execute the command
dpkg --list

This prints out a one-line summary for each package, giving a 2-letter status symbol (explained in the header), the package name, the version which is installed, and a brief description.

To learn the status of packages whose names match the string any pattern beginning with "foo" by executing the command:
dpkg --list 'foo*'

To get a more verbose report for a particular package, execute the command:
dpkg --status packagename

01:35 PM, 29 Nov 2003 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (1)

Installing Debian on a PowerEdge 400SC

This is the thing about installing Debian on newer computers. It sucks getting the drivers.

Anyway, I installed Debian, rebooted, and of course it didn't recognize the network card. That happens a lot. Oh well, I first of all tried to figure out which network card was in the PowerEdge 400SC. It turns out it's an Intel e100.

So I found the source code for the driver. It's at:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?agr=Y&Inst=Yes&ProductID=998&DwnldID=2896

The problem is that after you download it (on another computer), and burn it to CD or floppy, get it over to the server, and copy it to /root or something, and untar it, and make install, and it first tells you...

Linux kernel source not found

This is because we don't have the kernel headers. Oh well, I can get around that. I apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18 and they are there now. It gets them from the CD. This seems to put a file in /usr/src that is kernel-headers-2.4.18.bz2

Now we try to make install, and we get,

Linux kernel source not found

If we look at the make file, it looks like the problem is that it can't find the kernel headers. I'm not sure what the best thing to do now is, but I try this:

bunzip2 kernel-headers-2.4.18.gz2
tar -xf kernel-headers-2.4.18.tar

If you try it again, you get the same problem. Oh, yeah, it's because we have kernel-2.4.8-bf24 as our kernel. Hmmm, so I try this:

ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18 kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf24

Now when I try to make install, I get...

Linux kernel source not configured - missing version.h

Any ideas?

08:26 PM, 28 Nov 2003 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (7)

A Way to Reuse Common UI Elements [openacs.org]

This seems like an interesting posting.

01:51 PM, 12 Nov 2003 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

How to get Mac OS X 10.3's Mail.app to recognize self-signed certificates [www.macosxhints.com]

I was getting an error that looked like this: NSStreamSocketSSLErrorDomain whenever I tried to connect to my courier-imap mail server. The problem seems to be with self-signed certificates. Anyway, this link may guide us to the answer.

10:49 PM, 10 Nov 2003 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (2)

I'm sure you can do something with this

I have no idea of how to take advantage of this, but this looks interesting:

http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1099

Can it be used for double substitution in OpenACS templates? I have no idea?

02:41 PM, 07 Nov 2003 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

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