Category: Installation

Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) 1.3.1 Final Release

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Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) 1.3.1 Final Release…

Will be installing Ruby on Rails using Cool Stack… this is the first of sets of post.. Now downloading the packages from Sun.com

Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) for the Sun Solaris Operating System(TM). Cool Stack is a collection of some of the most commonly used open source applications optimized for the Sun Solaris OS. By using these binaries you will enjoy the best levels of performance from your system, while also reducing your time-to-service.

Instructions: Select the files you want, then click the “Download Selected with Sun Download Manager” (SDM) button below to automatically install and use SDM (learn more). Alternately, click directly on file names to download with your browser. (Use of SDM is recommended but not required.)

Solaris Compilation “make: ar: Command not found”

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…an error message “make: ar: Command not found” for any application being compiled on Solaris box, here’s what to do as per gcc forum….

Add /usr/ccs/bin to your PATH.

In my case:

root@host# echo $PATH

Add /usr/ccs/bin/

Export PATH

Setting Up Custom Name Server at your Registrar

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Just want to note here steps on how to setup your own custom name server from your registrar. In my case, I had to do it on GoDaddy. But of course there are tons of webpages out there that explains how to do it in different registrar.. on this post I just took the part where they enumerate procedures for GoDaddy.

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A4Tech Webcam Driver Download

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A4 Webcam Driver Download, yes you come to the right place if you are looking for a webcam driver for your A4Tech Webcam.

I made this post because I myself found it hard to search the web looking for the device driver for our PK-336MB A4 webcam. Well, the good news is I found it.. and good news still, I’m going to tell you where it is as well as the other A4 webcam models:

PK-336MB
PK-635
PK-635M
PK-835
PK935
PK-7MAR
PK-636MA
PK-333MB
PK-130MG
PK-335MB

and others.. check their device drivers here:

http://www.a4tech.com/ennew/products.asp?cid=77&scid=89&page=4

Configure Virtual Hosting in Apache Web Server

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When we say or mention the word Web Server, the first thing that comes to our mind is Apache, right? (if you don’t then what are you doing here reading this? :-) )

Apache is the most well known open source web server there is! Open source?? Make that the most wildly used webserver on the internet, period!

It is believed (and i know they made a survey or study about it) that Apache takes 90% of all web servers in the internet. Most web hosting company, and I’ve once worked in one, use Apache.

This post will talk about how to setup Apache for Virtual Hosting

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Setting up an FTP server on Debian

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First things first, check to see what available ftp server are there for Debian

atp-cache search ftp-server

This will suppose to to list all available ftp server . As you can see there are a few available server you can choose. Popular one is proftp.

To install the service do:

apt-get install proftp

This will start installing .. you know, displaying all those letters and words and stuff..

webserver:~# apt-get install proftpd
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient15off libpq4 mysql-common perl perl-modules ucf
Suggested packages:
libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl proftpd-doc
Recommended packages:
perl-doc debconf-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient15off libpq4 mysql-common perl perl-modules proftpd ucf
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9623kB of archives.
After unpacking 39.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Run proftpd from inetd or standalone?

inetd
standalone

Initially selected standalone here.

And you’re done!

To start up the FTP service:

/etc/init.d/proftpd start

Trouble Installing Ubuntu on a NEO Laptop

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I bought my very first laptop last week which comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic.

My original plan was to erase the whole thing and put Ubuntu on it. Tried it couple of days ago but didn’t work out.

After the boot up from the CD (requested a copy of Ubuntu 7.10) it displayed the little cross hair, then nothing…

I thought it’s probably the Vista… So I put in XP.. coz I tried installing Ubuntu over XP before, but the same thing happened!

So I wonder if this is a hardware issue on my laptop? It’s a NEO Empriva 540SVBe.

Will do a search later.

configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available

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After installing the required prerequisite for OpenLDAP installation, I ran into my first error in running the configure script:

…

checking db.h usability… no
checking db.h presence… no
checking for db.h… no
configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available

At first, I thought this was just a case of $PATH not set up properly (since /usr/local) in not in the path by default). After setting up the path:

# echo $PATH
/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.3:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.3/bin:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.3/include/
#

I still have the error.

I then added the path for the include files in the env

env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/Berkeley/include

Did the configure and…

checking for db.h… yes

That fixed…

Next error… :D

Package Installation on Solaris UNIX

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We’re trying to install OpenLDAP ver 2.3.38 on a Sun-Blade-100 (UltraSPARC-IIe) but the stupid workstation’s OS installation is so bare that it doesn’t even have packages for CC or GCC (I’m sure there’s a lot more).

So, before we could do the OpenLDAP compilation, we need to install first GCC and other prerequisite apps.

Here’s what I need to install on the box:

Need to install the following:

Donwload all packages on Sunfreeware and install.

change to the directory where the packages are located

# pkgadd -d <package name>

answer promp question (usually change of permission)

If all has been installed, we can proceed and compile OpenLDAP. Of course if that don’t work out, we could always installed it’s packaged version on Sunfreeware! :)

OpenLDAP Installation on Sun Blade 100

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This is an OpenLDAP installation on the following system:

System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u
Memory size: 1024 Megabytes

Sun-Blade-100 (UltraSPARC-IIe)

Prerequisites:

Depending on the requirements, there may be a need to install some third party softwares:

  • OpenSSl
  • Kerberos
  • SASL
  • Berkeley DB
  • TCP Wrappers
  • and others

Need to make sure the following variables is set:

Variable Description
CC Specify alternative C Compiler
CFLAGS Specify additional compiler flags
CPPFLAGS Specify C Preprocessor flags
LDFLAGS Specify linker flags
LIBS Specify additional libraries

(additional: Need to install gcc, ar (binutils) libiconv libintl-3.4.0-sol8-sparc-l as well as Berkeley DB on server)

With the initial installation I will set it up using

# ./configure

# make depend

# make

# make test

Finally,

# su root -c ‘make install’

That’s it, hopefully all will go well.. If it doesn’t, we’ll post the error (and hopefully solution).

Cheers!