After installing XEmacs, and ran it in terminal-mode, I got this error: $ xemacs -nw xemacs: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: no version information available (required by xemacs) The XEmacs works fine despite producing that error message. However, I want to get rid of it. Who or what do you turn to when you have problem with computer in general? Google search is your friend. Here is the possible cause of the above problem. XEmacs require the newer version of lbdb-4.5 than the one installed on my Debian Lenny. At the time of this writing, the version of libdb4.5 on Lenny is 4.5.20-1. To fix this problem, you need to download the Sid version (4.5.20-9) and install it manually: ...

The first text-editor in Linux I ever used was pico. Then I was introduced to emacs and remained using for awhile. Nowadays, vi(m) is my favorite and default text editor of choice. Anyway, the main point of this post is to how to start emacs in terminal-mode instead of graphical mode. $ <strong>emacs -nw</strong> That’s it. -nw actually does the trick. Reference: How to get started…

Just browsed around through Linux blogs and I came across an interesting tool “htop” posted at Linux and Open Source Blog. What is htop? It’s an interactive process viewer for Linux. It’s very similar to top, however htop enables you to scroll the list vertically or horizontally; as well as supporting mouse operation. To install htop on Debian/Ubuntu distros, run this command: $ sudo apt-get install htop For openSUSE 10.2, you probably can install it with Yast, but I like smart: ...

I have installed mysql-server on my laptop running Debian back in awhile. For that reason, I forgot the root password. Just recently, I need to use MySQL server for one of my assignments. So, I was playing around in /etc/mysql/ directory hoping that I could get rid of the server and then reinstall it. The commands apt-get remove <strong>mysql-server</strong> didn’t seem to remove files/directories related to MySQL. Then, I decided to delete the /etc/mysql/ manually. ...

Finally, the amazing team from KhmerOS has realeased the Khmer Spell Checker (KSC) for OpenOffice. Here is the instruction for installing KSC on Debian (Lenny) system. Download the package from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133361&package_id=244774 Unzip it: $ unzip Khmer_Spellchecker_v1.0.zip Change to that directory: $ cd Khmer Spellchecker v1.0/ Become the super user: $ su Password: (enter your root password) Copy two files: km_KH.aff km_KH.dic to OOo’s dict directory: # cp km_* /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo The above directory could be slighty different from one system to another. ...