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Posts tagged x64
Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed when installing hplip
0If you found this error running hp-setup or diagnosed when running hp-check, just install python2-qt package. Run this on your terminal:
# pacman -S python2-qt
hp-check will give you all the diagnostic you’ll need to install your printer/scanner, in my case HP Officejet 4500, on your Arch installation.
VMWare Player 3.1.14 fails to start/build on kernel 3.0
0Yesterday I’ve made the big change updating to kernel 3.0 on my arch installation. One side effect, the only so far, was the fact that my VMWare Player was not loading. On all kernel updates VMWare loader detects kernel version changes, updates/recompile all it’s binaries and than loads without any problems, but this time it didn’t and was returning the error ‘Unable to initialize kernel module configuration’.
Fortunately, as always, the Arch community found the cause and the solution very fast. The problem relies on VMWare module builder not handling correctly the new version layout. In Order to fix an easy solution is to patch two binaries:
# sed 's/\x83\xe8\x03\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/\x83\xe8\x02\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/' -i /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig-console.so/libvmware-modconfig-console.so # sed 's/\x83\xe8\x03\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/\x83\xe8\x02\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/' -i /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig.so/libvmware-modconfig.so
Here you can find the solution posted on Arch Wiki.
Boost your Linux with preload
0preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.
Install (for debian based distros) easily running this simple command in terminal:
sudo apt-get install preload
After installed the service will start without requiring additional actions. Several options are available. Using help switch (- – help or -h) to get help.
I’ve test on Ubuntu Natty 11.04 x64 and on Mint Julia 10 x64. On Mint, I must say, application launch improved a lot.
‘Error authenticating some packages’ updating from Maverick to Natty
0If you run into this situation and everything else fails I have found the solution here. This takes you to make an release update using terminal commands.
In my case the packages were tzdata and tzdata-java.
Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and Thunderbird Lightning
0“Lightning” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3)”
If you run into this problem here is the solution.
Personal Software Inspector
0476 days
by Rui
in Technology
If you use Windows you know sometimes is hard to track critical updates, forgotten installed applications or even dead DLL’s that may count for less secure system.
A friend recently recommend me Secunia PSI. This software is great and detected (and easily fixed) some vulnerabilities that I had on my Windows 7 x64 (although right know Debian is my main OS, i try to keep my Windows 7 workstation as tunned as possible) and even some of them that were related do outdated browser versions.
Thunderbird cannot connect under Debian Lenny x64
0After a good number of days using this great distro I’ve found myself struggling with some and very annoying Icedove bugs and decide to go to it’s branded “parent” from Mozilla. Strange enoughf, blah, could’t get email from the first account I’ve setup. The error was “Cannot connect to ‘mail.mydomain.com’”.
Community to the rescue, we need to disable IPv6. Go to Edit > Preferences, choose Advanced tab, click Config Editor and locate network.dns.disableIPv6. Just double-click to swap Value, close and that’s it.
Thunderbird Config Editor under Debian Leny
