Tag Archives: Debian
Locale Problems in Debian and Ubuntu
Recently I have been facing some issues with locales in Debian and Ubuntu based Xen based virtual servers. These typically appear while running the man command and apt-get or dpkg commands.
Configuring ALSA On Debian Sarge
I needed to configure ALSA on Sarge because I wanted to use Ekiga Softphone and although it supports OSS but the support is not good. It was fairly straight forward process to do that: ajitabhp@fimbles:~$ sudo apt-get install libesd-alsa0 \ … Continue reading
Backporting Ekiga Softphone
Since I use apt-pinning it was quite easy for me to install Ekiga from the backports. The first thing which I needed to do was to configure ALSA on sarge. Next I just installed Ekiga as: ajitabhp@fimbles:~$ sudo apt-get install … Continue reading
Filesystem in User Space
Setting up sshfs In order to setup sshfs on a debian system, I needed to install the sshfs packages: sudo apt-get install sshfs fuse-source module-assistant kernel-headers-2.6 sudo module-assistant build fuse sudo module-assistant install fuse While building the fuse module I … Continue reading
Apt Pinning
I normally stick with Debian Stable on my laptop. But atleast there was one package which I needed out of testing or unstable, git. So I thought of using the Debian backports repository. I followed the instructions to use the … Continue reading