Chris Schuld's Blog

For a recent project I needed to perform document translations from DOC to PNG which requires an essential intermediate step to PDF. The transformations required us to go to from DOC to PDF which can easily be done very nicely using openoffice 2.3 in a headless configuration. The downside is you need a process running [...]

To play MP3 files in Fedora 8 with KDE you need to add software to your default installation. This software does not come “stock” with KDE because the software is not free and RedHat is required to filter it — therefore if you download this update make sure you check the licensing agreements: First, add [...]

To play MP3 files in Fedora 8 you need to add software to your default installation: First, add Livna sources using rpm rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm Next, Install Rhythmbox (assuming you are using Gnome) using yum yum install rhythmbox Next, Install gstreamer-plugins-ugly** using yum yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly That is it, next launch Rythmbox and hello music! [...]

If while using ‘yum’ or ‘rpm’ you receive the following error: rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries Your RPM dB files are screwed up… here is how you unscrew them! This error tell you the Berkley database files which RPM uses are damaged and in order to clear the error you must [...]

To play MP3 files in Fedora 7 you need to add software to your default installation: First, add Livna sources using rpm rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm Next, Install Rhythmbox using yum yum install rhythmbox Next, Install gstreamer-plugins-ugly** using yum yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly That is it, next launch Rythmbox and hello music! Q: Hey Chris, why does [...]

If you make a new entry in fstab it will not auto-mount. Therefore you must reload / refresh the entries. A reboot will do this but that is not a friendly way to do it. A quick way to reload new entries in /etc/fstab (fstab) is to use the mount command: mount -a

I use the “HTML Validator” Firefox plugin daily. I found it does not work out of the box in Linux namely Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7. You immediately get a HTML-rendered screen that states: FATAL ERROR : The dynamic C library contained in the extension file could not be found Getting rid of this [...]

In an attempt to add the PECL Upload Progress package, I received the following error: [root@zebra cbschuld]# pecl install uploadprogress-beta downloading uploadprogress-0.3.0.tgz … Starting to download uploadprogress-0.3.0.tgz (4,677 bytes) …..done: 4,677 bytes 3 source files, building running: phpize sh: phpize: command not found ERROR: `phpize’ failed Hmmm, it turns out I never added the package [...]