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Installing Git on CentOS

Rowan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:37:22 +0000

Git can be found in the EPEL (Fedora Project) complimentary packages repository. The command to install the package will be similar to the following

user@computer:$ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

Remember to sanity check this against your RHEL version…

Kubuntu: Rolling back a package

Rowan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:44:03 +0000

Kubuntu is currently my desktop OS of choice for 40+ hours a week of paid eye strain. It’s a good OS, basically Ubuntu with KDE as the desktop environment, however over the three or four years I’ve been using it the quality of the package management GUI applications has been somewhat variable. What we have [...]

Slicehost CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 Upgrade (or not much to see here)

Rowan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:43:06 +0000

It was with a little trepidation that I kicked this one off. However, absolutely no problems what so ever. Nice

Terminal Syntax highligher plugin

Rowan — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:50:38 +0000

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now to make my quick solutions posts more readable. Only tested it on one post so far but seems to work on latest WP and Thematic. The little plugin allows you to display Linux terminal input / output in a “pretty” fashion in your posts, [...]

yum update – TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Rowan — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:49:06 +0000

Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a

user@computer:$ yum clean metadata

user@computer:$ yum clean all

The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.

user@computer:$ yum updateSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies--> Running transaction checkTraceback (most recent call last):File "/usr/bin/yum", line [...]

Slicehost CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 Upgrade (or “fun with package management one”)

Rowan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:16:03 +0000

One of the things about having your own little server, not really used for anything absolutely critical to anyone is that you can install updates as soon as you like. Non critical updates are one of those things that you have to do sooner or later and for non critical systems it can often be [...]

SMTP (email) on another port in Hsphere

Rowan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:01:16 +0000

By default, Hsphere runs SMTP on port 587 as well as the default of port 25. This appears to be recommended as part of the setup for SPF, so that roaming users can send messages where port 25 is blocked and not fall foul of strict SPF records.

Edit: As defined here

Slicehost Review – Initial Impressions

Rowan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:24:50 +0000

I Decided back in the Summer that I would ditch Servage when my renewal came around in the Autumn, I’ll discuss why in a separate updated final review. In short I wanted a system I had as near to 100% control over as possible, so that meant a VPS. Hosting my own and my family’s [...]

Mounting an FTP account on Linux

Rowan — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:27:33 +0000

Learning to use the command line is one of the hardest things about moving to Linux, however once you’re used to it, doing things becomes second nature and you actually miss being able to use the terminal in those cases where you have FTP access but no shell account. For some things using a GUI [...]

Changing the default sound card in Kubuntu

Rowan — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:13:56 +0000

After adding a PCI soundcard to my machine for the purposes of having a gameport my Kubuntu 7.04 install wasn’t always choosing to use the on-board Intel chip for sound meaning I could near nothing. The solution seems to be the following

sudo asoundconf list

Names of available sound cards: au8830 Intel

sudo asoundconf set-default-card Intel

sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart * Shutting [...]