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Android / Eclipse Error generating final archive: Debug Certificate expired

Rowan — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:02:22 +0000

It appears the android SDK / debugger generates a certificate in .android/debug-keystore only valid for a year. You may come to generate a new project in Eclipse, go to run the debug / android emulator and find it won’t run.

To fix this, delete the keystore file from your home directory, then run Project [...]

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…

Eclipse: new Android project. Can’t select Build Type / Target

Rowan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:13:58 +0000

This caused a good 30 mins head scratching. When creating a new Android project in Eclipse it is not possible to progress past the initial screen as it complains “an SDK target must be specified”. In the window you will see “Build Target” but no box listing your installed Android Versions. The area of the [...]