I’ve recently taken possession of a flashy new workstation running Fedora, and with joy in my heart went to install Spotify on it, only to discover… Noooo… They only offer .deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu. Thankfully, the solution was easier than I thought. Do all the following as root… 1. Install dpkg, the Debian [...]
Also tagged linux, music, spotifyThis took a fair bit of searching, and the answer’s non-obvious… Everybody (?) knows that in theory, if you have 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Linux (x86_64), you can use nspluginwrapper to install 32-bit plugins, like the Flash Player. There’s some instructions here for example. However, those instructions are flawed in two regards.
Also tagged 64bit, centos, firefox, flash, linuxI just ran into a problem when trying to upgrade to the latest rpm-packaged version of Subversion on Centos 5 x86_64 — simple solution, but not obvious, so hopefully this will help someone. It goes like this, as root: $ yum update subversion [normal messages snipped] Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el from install of [...]
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