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Fedora Core IV

Successful upgrading!!! now i’m writting this from my new toy, Drivel, running in my Fedora Core IV.

Just one problem, sylpheed didn’t start up ’cause it need a libssl.so.4 that doesn’t exist at this distro… first I tri it’s to link libssl.so.5 to an unexisting libssl.so.4 and emulate it, but after do that still need other library, now I don’t remember wich one.

So as a professional I try most canonical option:

1. Uninstall sylpheed
2. Install new sylpheed rpm from ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/
3. … type sylpheed in a console and … it runs!

If I don’t write anything else about it let’s assume that old No news, good news

Oops, this august we go to London for a couple of days, great chance to improve my english or so I hope, drop me a line if you wanna recommend me something

Trying Drivel

Well, just a sort line to test if drivel runs as well as I was told in Linux, if you wanna know what Drivel have a look on its page, I advanced you it’s a simple, easy to use client to post on Blogger, movabletype, and other weblog systems.

By the way, they offers lastest stable version in rpm easy to install in Fedora Core III, I hope it would be included in just release Fedora Core IV…

Upgrading Debian Woody: personal experience

My home server runs Debian (pure Woody) so as soon as see there were a new Debian version I just start to look around what it’s suposed I’ve to do.

First of all I look my cron log’s to see if planified apt-get update && apt-get upgrade have reported some thing about it. No news in logs… so I might try something more.

Debian published this release notes for Debian 3.1 where they talk about upgrading from Woody (link in spanish). After a not very deep reading I’ve follow this steps (keep in mind I got a daily updated debian, just from stable sources):

1. As they suggest install aptitude by executing: apt-get install aptitude
2. then run aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
3. aptitude ask about install flex or doesn’t ’cause it changes a lot from previous versions and actually don’t satisfy POSIX specifications. I’d answer aptitude don’t upgrade flex version but each time I try an aptitude update && aptitude upgrade tries to install once more time this package, so finally I accept to install this flex version, since I do it, every aptitude update && aptitude upgrade ends perfectly, and no new software it’s needed.

By the way, now appears very useful to keep in a server Debian without extra software but stable, as a note here’s my sources.list:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

Starwars test

I’ve try this test about starwars (I don’t use to try then but I like starwars), and answering pretty sincerly this is my result… it scares a little, don’t you?

You scored as Anakin Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker 72% Yoda 67% Mace Windu 64% Darth Vader 64% R2-D2 64% General Grievous 58% C-3PO 56% Emperor Palpatine 50% Padme Amidala 47% Obi Wan Kenobi 42% Chewbacca 39% Clone Trooper 36% Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

What f**k are insde this file?

Sometimes you feel ugly ’till say something like that, it isn’t? Well, this short note it’s worthy to remember myself a very useful command (on Linux, for sure), wich is od (you may find od man page here).

More useful flag for me has been od -c some_file.sh, in that way it dumps all ASCII characters, backslahes, and a lot of information.