Hi Lenny
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, codenamed Lenny, was recently released. Here’s a round of of articles about the release and why you might want to consider Debian for your infrastructure. Techworld sums up what...
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Compiling EIGENSOFT on Ubuntu Januty
These are rough notes on how to compile Eigensoft 3 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Update, Eigensoft 4 is available and should compile on more recent versions of Ubuntu:...
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Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu Karmic & Lucid
If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable)....
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Cogs games on Linux not working?
See this forum posting for a potential fix, if your using an ATI graphics card: http://forum.lazy8studios.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=h1d37r13a2d2ccnk5c5j6b2c94&topic=475.msg837#msg837 This is a fix...
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Build & Install Osra 1.3.8 on Ubuntu 11.10
Summary Osra is a a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures create by Igor Filippov at the National Cancer Institute. This page documents how to compile and install...
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt Cert & Nginx (Using a Web Proxy) on Centos 6.x
This was done on Centos 6 where prebuilt ‘certbot’ packages are not available. On Centos 7, install ‘certbot’ from the EPEL repo. cd ~root; mkdir certbot; wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto; chmod...
View ArticleCentos 7: qt5 packages missing when installing synergy-1.9.1
The fix is to installed qt5-qtbase & qt5-qtbase-gui: yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-gui The specific warnings are:# rpm -i synergy-1.9.1-322.stable.2a0225c1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm error: Failed...
View ArticleEdx on Debian Stretch
After you clone the Edx repo there you will find a (undocumented) list of packages required to install on Ubuntu: requirements/system/ubuntu/apt-packages.txt These packages and others are required for...
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VAST Storage API & JQ
Hiking Glendalough Park in Ireland Vast builds some neat storage systems that provide management functionality via a REST API. jq is a command-line JSON processor, or as the author describes it “sed...
View ArticleInstall portal_client on Linux
A user asked for help installing Portal Client. Which is a: Python-based client for downloading data files hosted by the an instance of the portal software developed by the GDC and further modified by...
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