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Ubuntu 1st, Mac 2nd, Windows DNF

Posted 10-21-2010 at 10:36 AM by beetleman64 (Sensible World of Linux)

Apple's announcement that a Mac OS App store would be a major presence is Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was perhaps unsurprising. After all, what more would you expect from the company which essentially introduced the idea on the iPhone and now the iPad. What is surprising is that Apple has been beaten to it by none other than Ubuntu, an OS whose unashamed vision is to take on and beat Apple at their own game.

Users of Ubuntu 10.10 will doubtless be aware of the inclusion in the Software Centre...

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Some of my instructables

Posted 10-21-2010 at 05:07 AM by peonuser
Updated 10-21-2010 at 05:14 AM by peonuser

If you are really board to death, you can look at some of these beginner instructables:

Computer related:

http://www.instructables.com/id/No-hard-drive-network/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Uses...private-cloud/
http://www.instructables.com/id/PC-p...f-thin-client/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Linu...Tele-prompter/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Linu...n-on-a-server/...

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Build Notes for LFS 6.6 with Package Users -- Part 3

Posted 10-20-2010 at 03:01 PM by Lufbery (The Slacker's Blog)
Updated 11-07-2010 at 08:30 PM by Lufbery

Continued from part 2.

Shadow-4.1.4.2
Installation fails as indicated in the hint because of the international man pages. I decided to install them. After the installation failure: Change the foreign language man page directories to install groups as the root user, from /usr/share/man:

Code:

find /usr/share/man -type d -exec chgrp install '{}' \;

and

Code:

find /usr/share/man -type d -exec chmod g+w,o+t '{}' \;

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Build Notes for LFS 6.6 with Package Users -- Part 2

Posted 10-20-2010 at 02:58 PM by Lufbery (The Slacker's Blog)
Updated 11-07-2010 at 08:26 PM by Lufbery

Continued from part 1.

IV. Known Issues with LFS Packages

The package user scripts and wrappers install just fine according to the hints instructions during the proper spot in chapter 6.

Chapter 6.6
Create a dummy ldconfig so that installations won't abort due to lack of permission when running ldconfig:

Code:

cat > /usr/lib/pkgusr/ldconfig << "EOF"
#/bin/bash
echo '*** ldconfig: This is a dummy.

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Build Notes for LFS 6.6 with Package Users -- Part 1

Posted 10-20-2010 at 02:46 PM by Lufbery (The Slacker's Blog)
Updated 11-12-2011 at 12:15 PM by Lufbery

Build Notes for LFS 6.6 with Package Users
by Drew Ames
with contributions from Bryan Kadzban and
on the LFS-Dev mailing list and 'crts' on LQ.net.
October 2010

Quick note: Early in 2011, I completed LFS 6.7 with these same instructions and did not encounter any changes of note.

I. Introduction
I recently completed Linux From Scratch 6.6 (with Slackware 13.1 as the host) using the package users scheme for package management as described...

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