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Novell Groupwise Messenger Client 2.2 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or 12.04 Precise Pangolin 64-Bit

Installing Groupwise Messenger Client 2.2 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or 12.04 Precise Pangolin 64-Bit. Downloads Download the Groupwise Messenger Client 2.2 from Novell: http://gwclient.provo.novell.com Download Java JRE (jre-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz) from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html Install Alien and required packets aptitude install alien ia32-libs libstdc++5 libgnome2-0 Extract JRE cd Downloads tar vfx jre-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz Extract the RPM-Packet alien –generate [...]

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Novell Groupwise 8 Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or 12.04 Precise Pangolin 64-Bit

Update: Add Ubuntu 12.04 support Installing Novell Groupwise 8 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or 12.04 Precise Pangolin 64-Bit. Downloads Download the Groupwise 8 Linux Client Tarball from Novell: http://gwclient.provo.novell.com Download Java JRE (jre-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz) from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html Install Alien and required packets aptitude install alien ia32-libs libstdc++5 libgnome2-0 Extract JRE cd Downloads tar vfx jre-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz [...]

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Install Ubuntu on DELL Latitude ST Tablet

NOTE: It’s all testing and not stable! Try at your own risk! Attention: The GMA600 graphic hardware acceleration is not working ! 1. Install You need USB-Hub, USB-Keyboard and an USB-Stick. 1.1 Download Ubuntu First download the latest Ubuntu release (currently Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2). Download Daily Build Choose ‘precise-desktop-i386.iso’ and download this ISO. Note: [...]

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Install Foswiki on Ubuntu with Nginx

The server I start with a default installation of Ubuntu server (11.10 in this Howto). Install Nginx Install software to add PPA: aptitude install python-software-properties Add Nginx PPA: nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx Install Ngnix: aptitude update aptitude install nginx See Nginx install Ubuntu PPA for more details. FastCGI Now [...]

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Color Bash Prompt on Ubuntu and Debian

Ubuntu Green Prompt for your user Edit ”~/.bashrc” and change: #force_color_prompt=yes to: force_color_prompt=yes To change it for all new users make the same in ”/etc/skel/.bashrc”. Red Prompt for root Edit ”/root/.bashrc” and change ”force_color_prompt=yes” like for your user. Now change the color to red. Search this line: PS1=’${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ‘ and change it to: PS1=’${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ‘ [...]

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Encrypt your USB Stick

Encrypt your USB Stick with cryptsetup or TrueCrypt on Ubuntu. 1. Use cryptsetup 1.1 Install cryptsetup: aptitude install cryptsetup 1.2 Setup cryptsetup volume: Unmount the stick and format it: umount /dev/usb1 cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/usb1 Type “YES” an choose a password. Open the crypt partition: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/usb1 crypt_USB Create new Filesystem and mount it: mkfs.ext4 [...]

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Fix Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot dbus Problem

After uprade to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot i get the following message during the system boot: Waiting for network configuration It takes a long time and leads to a black screen. You can see the following message sometimes, too. Unable to connect to the system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused The [...]

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Install Sun Java with Puppet on Ubuntu

Sun wants you to agree to its license before installing the JRE/JDK. For an unattended install you need a preseed file. You get the content of this file with “debconf-get-selections | grep sun-” on a system where you have already installed the required packages. Create a file “/etc/puppet/files/sun-java6.preseed” with the following example content: sun-java6-bin shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 [...]

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Install latest Broadcom bnx2 linux driver

Install new broadcom driver on Ubuntu or Debian: 1. Download Linux driver http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php 2. Unpack unzip linux-6.2.23.zip cd Server/Linux/Driver tar vfx netxtreme2-6.2.23.tar.gz cd netxtreme2-6.2.23 3. Install build tools and install the driver sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers make sudo make install 4. Test before installation: $ ethtool -i eth0 driver: bnx2 version: 2.0.2 firmware-version: 4.6.1 [...]

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Nagios 3 with Nginx on Ubuntu Server

1. Install Nagios 3 aptitude install nagios3 2. Test Nagios Installation Open “http://SERVER/nagios3/” in your browser. Login with user “nagiosadmin” and the passwort you have entered during the installation. 3. Switch from Apache to Nginx Nagios has dependencies to the Apache webserver. So Apache was installed with Nagios. Now we replace it with Nginx. 3.1 [...]

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