I’ll guide you through the different steps I took to install a working desktop environment in Debian using xmonad, conky and dzen2.
The final result of this configuration should look like this:
xmonad with dzen2 and conky
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If you’ve tried to install dropbox-nautilus from the source found in the Dropbox website, you’ll find that you can’t successfully complete the ./configure step of the package due to an error of the script not finding pygtk. This is an issue with Archlinux because of the way python binaries are handled in this distribution. However, you can use the AUR packages to install dropbox and its integration with Nautilus thank to the people that tweaked the scripts to work with Arch.
The first step you have to take is download the AUR packages. You’ll need to download both dropbox and nautilus-dropbox. Save both .tar.gz files at you preferred location and uncompress them using this command:
tar xvfz <filename.tar.gz>
Obviously, change
makepkg -s
This will build a package and install the required dependencies while doing it if needed (it will ask for your root password if you’re doing this without being root). If everything went ok, you’ll find a file with the extension .xy in the folder you’re in. This is what you need to install, using our beloved pacman (use sudo if you’re not root):
pacman -U <filename.xy>
This will install dropbox. After this, do the same for the other package: nautilus-dropbox. makepkg -s, pacman -U <filaneme.xy> and you’re done, you have Dropbox integrated with Nautilus. Just start Dropbox from your Applications menu and enjoy the service!
The virtualization world is not only for Windows and its name is not only VMWare. Specially since the migration of Apple’s Macs to the Intel x86 platform, that kind of software has seen in the Cupertino computers a new and fresh market to exploit. And one of the software pieces who has built one of the best virtuaization products for the Macs has been Parallels Desktop.
Altough the Windows virtualization offered by Parallels is pretty nice (I’m still impressed of the Coherence Mode and I can’t wait to test the new 3D support features of the last version), it has also support for other Operating Systems such as Linux. And because Ubuntu is at this moment one of the most popular Linux distributions, a lot of people (including myself) have tried to install it in a virtual image on a Mac.
Unfortunately, the latest Ubuntu version, 7.04, aka Feisty Fawn, seems to have some problems installing on Parallels. The most important one is that the Live and installer CD will simply not boot correctly, showing a “Black Screen of Death” when loading the frame buffered splash screen.
But don’t worry, everything should be fine if you choose Solaris and Other Solaris as a OS Type and OS Version respectively when creating the virtual machine. Simply boot the Live CD, install the Linux distribution and when it asks you to reboot, shut down, change the virtual machine type to Linux and “Other 2.6 Linux” and it’s done! Enjoy the wonderful open source operating system on your Mac OS!
If you begin to have a lot of computers at home, or even you manage a little LAN on an office, it may come in handy to have a little domain configured. Having a domain configured has some advantages, including easy machine naming and name resolution of those machines. We’ll explain here how to setup a little domain with a linux machine and an opensource DHCP and DNS servers.
For this to work you’ll need:
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