Ubuntu

After upgrading from natty (11.04) to oneiric (11.10), some 32-bit applications don’t run anymore. I have ‘ia32-libs’ and ‘libc6-i386’ packages installed. For example, when I run Android adb, $ ./adb bash: ./adb: No such file or directory $ file adb adb: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped After googling around, the fix is quite simple: re-install ‘libc6-i386’. $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6-i386 $ ....

On Ubuntu or Debian: $ sudo apt-cache search php|egrep ^php5- $ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt Ref: Install php extensions on ubuntu

On Ubuntu 10.10, if you get an error message as the following when trying to create audio CD from mp3: “Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format: You may manually convert these audio files to wave using another application supporting the audio format and then add the wave files to the K3b project.” Check if you have libk3b6-extracodecs installed, if not just; $ sudo apt-get install libk3b6-extracodecs...

Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message: <br /> [Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC]<br /> [Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921<br /> Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.<br /> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: <strong>The database disk image is malformed</strong><br /> database disk image is malformed<br /> at Mono....

Ever since I upgraded my Ubuntu desktop from 9.04 to 10.4, I have been having problems with Amarok dropping sound randomly. For example, if Amarok is playing the music and another program requires to use sound, Amarok will become silence. One solution to restore sound in Amarok is to kill pulseaudio and restart Amarok. It works, but very annoying. Fortunately, installing libxine1-gnome and configure Amarok to use Esound (ESD) instead of PulseAudio fixed the problem....