While doing some testing this evening on Backtrack Linux 5 R3 I had issues with apt or aptitude complaining about some dependencies for packages I had compiled from source. One of the packages I first ran into issues with was bluez which is installed by default on Backtrack. I wanted to apply a patch to…
Earlier this morning I needed to run some tests against a NFS server running on BackTrack Linux version 5 release 3 and ran into some issues installing the nfs-kernel-server. It appeared as if things started to install properly but then the nfs-kernel-server did not start properly and ended up displaying a couple errors. Below I…
In the past I have used likewise-open to join Linux servers to a Windows domain controller. There were always at least some issues using likewise-open and even though it was always possible to get it working it was always a pain. Today I started the process and of course ran into an error which is…
I just got around to downloading The new LTS release from Ubuntu which is 10.04. I have to admit as a long time Gentoo Linux user I am very impressed with the speed of 10.04. There are some annoying bugs but I am working on sorting those out and I will try to post some…
I was doing a dual boot install today for a customer who wanted to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu linux. I installed the Unbuntu operating system fine but when I went to update the distro some thing was clearly wrong. Each time I tried to use the GUI package manager it would stall and…