http://www.daryl.mu Reg. Linux User #479288 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:57:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you get this Webilder error after updating to Jaunty as I did then you can fix as follows: 1. Backup the webilder.conf file: cp ~/webilder/webilder.conf ~/webilder/webilder.conf.bak 2. Edit the webilder.conf file as follows - change line 20 from: webilder.installation_date = time.struct_time(tm_year=2009, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=10, tm_min=34, tm_sec=56, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=244, tm_isdst=1) to: webilder.installation_date = (2008, 10, 26, ... http://www.daryl.mu/2009/09/01/fix-webilder-error-the-panel-encountered-a-problem-while-loading-oafiidgnome_webilderapplet/ If you get an aMSN connection error message something like: "No address associated with hostname" after  upgrading to Jaunty then you can fix by getting the latest version of aMSN directly from SVN' as follows: http://www.daryl.mu/2009/09/01/fix-amsn-unable-to-connect-after-ubuntu-update-to-jaunty-jackalope/ If you are working with Drupal or anything else that complains about requiring a newer version of the GD library then you need to upgrade as follows: 1. Remove old version sudo apt-get remove php5-gd 2. Add following lines to the file /etc/apt/sources.lst deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all 3. Update and reinstall sudo ... http://www.daryl.mu/2009/07/28/howto-upgrade-php-gd-library-on-ubuntu/ The fix for this is to install libstdc++5 and then reinstall Lightning. Close thunderbird and then in a terminal: sudo apt-get remove lightning sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 sudo apt-get install lightning http://www.daryl.mu/2009/04/14/fix-thuderbird-lightning-new-calendar-menu-item-grayed-out/ I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Toshiba U100 which does not work too well with grub.  Having installed 8.10 and replaced Grub with Lilo I ran update manager for all updates. This failed when updating the kernel with the error 'Could not find postinst hook script [update-grub]'. To fix after running the update ... http://www.daryl.mu/2009/04/14/fix-updating-ubuntu-gives-could-not-find-postinst-hook-script-update-grub-error/ Scenario: You have two Ubuntu PCs - you want to share a folder from one to the other.  A common answer you'll see posted around to this is to use Samba.  While this does allow the shared folder to be accessed by Windoze machines there is a far simpler and ... http://www.daryl.mu/2009/03/02/howto-set-up-nfs-remote-file-shariing-and-mounting-in-ubuntu/ I tried installing installing Chandler the GTD app from the .deb file but got an error about 'dependency is not satisfiable:  libicu36'. This is as newer versions of Ubuntu use libicu38. To fix the error try: wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu36_3.6-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i libicu36_3.6-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb Then try installing the Chandler .deb again. http://www.daryl.mu/2009/03/02/fix-dependency-is-not-satisfiable-libicu36-when-installing-chandler-on-ubuntu/ If you have a .ttf file (lets call it your_font.ttf) that you have downloaded and want to install it as an available font you should follow these steps: 1. Create somewhere to keep your .ttf fonts: sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom 2. Copy your font there: sudo cp your_font.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom 3. Run the following command to rebuild ... http://www.daryl.mu/2008/09/23/howto-install-a-ttf-font-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron/ My U100 needs a replacement screen so I've been hunting around for some information on how to replace it.  I was lucky enough to come across the U100 maintenance manual which I've made available here. http://www.daryl.mu/2008/09/22/toshiba-u100-maintenance-manual/ If you have an unknown quantity of images in a folder and want to cycle through them and display (in a table or similar) then this snippet should get you started. http://www.daryl.mu/2008/09/21/how-to-load-and-display-images-from-a-folder-in-php/