Install OpenOffice 3.1 on Debian Lenny 5.0

Monday, 1 June 2009 12:35 by myro

Installing OpenOffice 3.1 in Debian Lenny 5.0 is simple and you get all your Icons set in Gnome without the need of manually setting up links. What you need to do is:

  • Using Synaptic Manager, remove your old OpenOffice (mine is 2.4) installation
  • Download your .deb packages from http://www.openoffice.org/
        Start downloading OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 for Linux Debian in US English
        (Java runtime, JRE, included for all OS versions except Linux Deb and Mac)
  • Unpack all those .deb that comes from your download into a folder.
  • Open a terminal session into your new folder that contains the debs and type:
      dpkg -i *.deb
  • Move the the subfolder called desktop-integration and retype
      dpkg -i *.deb
  • Now your OpenOffice 3.1 is installed into your system. Go to Application –> Office –> OpenOffice 3.1 Base and configure you workspace

If you see this message once you run OpenOffice:

OpenOffice.org requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform
this task. THe selected JRE is defective. Please select another
version or install a new JRE and select it under Tools - Options -
OpenOffice.org - Java

you should update your Java JRE: install sun-java6-jre using Synaptic Manager and your are done.

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Install Ati Radeon Mobility Driver in Debian 5.0 Lenny

Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:18 by myro

This guide shows you how to install ati radeon drivers into a fresh debian install. First of all, you need to install from you repository mangager (Synaptic) this packeges:

fglrx-glx

fglrx-driver

fglrx-source

once you are done, you need to compile fglrx-source as says in fglrx-driver' s description:

This package provides 2D display drivers and hardware accelerated OpenGL for X.Org version 7.1. For 3D acceleration to work, you will need to compile the fglrx kernel module for your kernel: see the fglrx-source package. Note that the driver will work without the kernel module, but 3D acceleration will be disabled.

Open a root terminal in and type fast as you can:

m-a prepare

m-a update

and then compile it:

m-a a-i fglrx

If everthing works fine, try to load the your module:

m-a a-i fglrx

and if loads correctly, be sure that kernels loads it every time by adding this line into your /etc/modules:

nano /etc/modules 

add this line:

fglrx

so it looks like:


# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
# Parameters can be specified after the module name.

loop
sbp2
vboxdrv
fglrx

 okei. you are done! you just need to configure the xorg.conf to be able to use it in your windows manager. In the terminal write:

aticonfig --initial

now restart the X server pressing ctrl + alt + backspace and see if it works. After restart, type in  terminal

fglrxinfo 

my output is:

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8304 Release

and it says that works! Cool
Hope it helps.

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Useful Linux commands

Sunday, 15 March 2009 18:40 by myro

If you got problems in remembering commands in linux, maybe you can find useful this quick reference about linux commands. I will updated it as soon as I found more common commands

Generics commands
df-h
      shows disk usage in human readable form
uname -a
     kernel release version
smbd -V
     samba version
httpd -v
     apache version
ps -aux
     outputs processes running
top -i
     shows only active processes
cat /proc/mdstat
     shows software raid
telinit 1
     changes to single user mode
grep -r "casesensitivesearch" *
     finds all documents containing the criteria in a dir
tail -f /var/log/<LOGFILE>
     realtime viewing of your log file
mdadm --detail /dev/mdx (where x is 0,1,2,etc)
     gives software raid info
tar -czvf foo.tar.gz foo
      creates a tar/zip file of a directory
tar -xvzf foo.tar.gz
     untar/unzip a tar/zip file
scp -P <ssh_portnumber> foo.tar.gz <other_server_ipaddress>:/opt
     transfers file to another server
sed -i s/foo/fee/g <FILENAMEORPATHTODIR>
     replaces foo with fee
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3
    formats /dev/sda3 disk into  a ext3 file system

RPM Commands

rpm -qa   
     shows all rpms installed
rpm -qa --last
     shows all rpms installed & installation date
rpm -q
     asks for rpm info
rpm -qi
     asks for detailed rpm info
rpm -ql <packagename>
     lists all files in a package
rpm -qf <filename>
     reports what package a file belongs to

DEB Installation
dpkg -i *. deb
     Installs all the *.deb packages in the current folder

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