Forcing glibc install on arch linux
On a fresh install of arch linux in linode, 2011.08 64bit, attempting to upgrade pacman will yield a glibc error. Like this: This just means that tzselect, zdump and zic – which are all part of the...
View ArticleInsufficient entropy pacman-key –init
As mentioned on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman-key, pacman package manager uses GnuPGP keys to determine if the open source packages that you install via pacman are authentic.  The...
View ArticleRaspberry Jam with Debian and Arch Linux ARM
RaspberryPi is a tiny little (credit-card size) ARM/Linux box which has caught the software/hardware/linux communities by storm. Â Here’s an image from raspberrypi.org that explains exactly what this...
View Articlepfind, pgrep and pkill on Mac OSX
Having taken these commands for granted on stock linux, it’s always a little waste-of-time to be listing out processes bound to specific ports that I want to kill; and then killing that process by its...
View Articlematplotlib dependencies; debian
Attempting to install matplotlib on a debian instance via `pip install matplotlib` gave me this error:- Apparently, it requires `libfreetype6-dev` and `libpng-dev` installed at distro-level so that it...
View ArticleArch Build System
Arch Build System (ABS) is Arch’s way of streamlining your workflow when you need to build a custom open source package. It is well-documented on Arch Wiki here –...
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