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At work I was assigned to package some software to make it easier to distribute and update. One of those software packages was php-gtk which with one patch to the build/configure files now cleanly builds on Ubuntu. You will be able to find the package on my Ubuntu PPA. You will be able to find builds for both 32bit and 64bit platforms.
I’m also in the process of uploading packages for FriFinans which is an Open Source economy / accounting application. This should be easier… lets see how it goes 
For those who doesn’t know… a few years back I made the site www.debianart.dk which was supposed to be the center of graphics for Debian. It never took off, mostly because I didn’t really have the time and it didn’t help that I started using Ubuntu instead. I was running Debian unstable at the time because I wanted the latest and greatest (Gnome among other things) so the jump to Ubuntu wasn’t really that big.
Now I use the debianart.dk to host my own Debian wallpapers which I’m actually quite proud of
Even though I use Ubuntu now for my laptop and workstation, I still use my own wallpapers (mostly “apt-get install”).
Right before my interest died for debianart.dk I made a Debian package with all the four wallpapers I have made public. Once installed they would automatically be available when changing background in Gnome. A later version of Gnome changed the location of where you should register background images, and I never got it updated… until now. I got an email from a guy asking how the Debian package worked, which made me pull my head of of my ass and get the update done
Download Debian Wallpapers – Modern Swirl
Enjoy
After my success with installing Ubuntu Breezy I wanted to rip 2 new CD’s I got today. But the gstreamer MP3 encoder (gstreamer0.8-lame) isn’t in the Ubuntu repositories.
I found it at Marillat’s Debian repository (direct link) where I downloaded it and installed it with:
rivendell:~# dpkg -i gstreamer0.8-lame_0.8.10-0.1_i386.deb
You also need the package liblame0, which is in multiverse:
rivendell:~# apt-get install liblame0
In the Sound-Juicer in Breezy you can add a MP3 profil from within Sound-Juicer preferences.
You might wanna take a look at an earlier entry about MP3 ripping in Sound-Juicer in my blog.
The last couple of days I have tinkered with a new antivirus / antispam server at work. Its foundation is a Debian Sarge running Postfix, Spamassassin, ClamAV through Amavis-ng (Amavis is installed from current unstable) and of top if it all mailgraph.
All packages was taken from the stable Debian release – Sarge, except of amavis-ng which does not exist in Sarge. This package was instead downloaded from unstable… fortunately it had no dependencies from unstable what so ever.
The documentation on the Spamassassin homepage is great which is just the opposite for amavis-ng which seems non-exsisting. The configuration file shipped with Debian makes up for the lack of documentation. It seems that amavis-ng should be a (more modular) reimplementation of amavisd-new. Even though people on the mailinglists recommend amavisd-new 
I have a serious problem keeping my hands off the bleeding edge stuff so I couldn’t resist installing amavis-ng. I have tried using it before, but at that time I couldn’t make it fork (it became a serious bottleneck). I’m not saying that it didn’t work, it might as well hav been me. Though I cannot seem to find the difference from my previous installation and my new one. Anyway it seems to fork correctly in this new installation and to test the virus filter I recommend this web site
The reason why I write this entry is because I made some changes to mailgrap to make it work the way I wanted.
Read on to see what (small) changes I made.
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At work we have several servers running Debian anb because we are multiple persones maintaining them we end up having software (packages) installed that no one remember the reason for. I thought I would be of great if apt/dpkg had some build-in preference you could enable so people had to ad a comment why they install the software which they are about to, and the comment would be saved along with a list of the packages installed.
Perhapes if using sudo you could also log who is installing what. You cannot trust that people always will leave a name for a number of reasons. I think the two greatest reasons would be:
- pure laziness
- hiding that they are about to fuck something up
I have to google around some more, to see if something like this have actually been implemented.
A colleague pointed out that ‘rpm’ have the ability to roll back you system to a specific day… though havn’t tried it so sadly I don’t know how well it works. But that would be a great thing to have in ‘dpkg’ also.
Countless times have I struggled with MP3 encoding under Linux. I seems for an eternity now. Every single time I had to fall back on the same #¤@?-ing console based ripping with abcde. And if it hadn’t been that abcde is a great ripping tool, the pain that this problem have caused me wouldn’t be describable.
Well now for the good news…. Sound-Juicer finally works (using Sound-Juicer 2.10 from Ubuntu Hoary)!
First I had to install the gstreamer8.0-lame package to encode audio to MP3 (gstreamer8.0-mad is needed for playback).
Then i ran gnome-audio-profiles-properties and created a new profile with the following values:
Profile name: CD Quality, Lossy
Profile Description: Test
GStreamer Pipeline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc
File Extension: mp3
Profile description and name is up to you. Dont worry, even though you have 2 profile with the same name i.e. “CD Quality, Lossy”, Sound-Juicer will tell the difference between them because it also displays the extension.
I cant remember which package provided gnome-audio-profiles-properties.
Update: Glad to see this info actually helped people out there on the Ubuntu forums
I have been battling with Ubuntu to create a Debian package with my wallpapers from Debian Art.
I ran into a bug which I was a log time to realize. I have reported it in the Ubuntu Bugzilla.
Well finally I got the damn package created and you can download it from here.
I have migratet my Debian user profilen to Ubuntu and it is now officially my primary home workstation distribution.
Since my last post I have installed Flash support, NVIDIA drivers, gstreamer MP3 encoder (used by Sound-Juicer) and WINE.
And just now I have installed Internet Explorer with a script which did it all itself.
As you might allready have noticed I have made a
screenshot of this isolated manifistation of “web designers hell” that I have allowed to be present on my Linux system.
I’m really impressed with this Linux distribution.
I updated Warty to Hoary this morning… not much new meets the eye at first peak, but i’ll taka a closer look later. The only major change on my system is that I run X.org instead of XFree. I haven’t noticed any performance change neither up or down, though I haven’t worked much with the either of them in Ubuntu so I wouldn’t have much to base my observations on anyway.
I head that GNOME Terminal (with antialiased fonts) should run much better… but that test will come soon enought.
The XFree – X.org transision went smooth and that must be counted as a plus
I have also tried a new document viewer: Evince.
I have only been able to find packages for Ubuntu. This document viewer has potential. It has GPDF’s nice look and XPDF’s functionality… but apart from that nothing new worth of mentioning.
Ubuntu is a must try!
I have packaged the TIFF CMYK GIMP plugin i found a while back. I got Frank, a collauge, to help me take te first steps. He has fiddled with it before. Now lets se if I ever get it out there
