August 2008
12 posts
The trickster way to install rails on ubuntu
first you
sudo apt-get install rubygems
then you do a gem upgrade
sudo gem update —system
then you uninstall rubygems but if it warns you that it will uninstall ruby1.8
you do an extra install for that
sudo apt-get remove rubygems
extrastep:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8
then you create a link to gem from gem1.8
cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s gem1.8 gem
install the gems as...
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles...
– Maya Angelou on understanding character - Boing Boing
Network Games Research →
VAST - scalable peer-to-peer (P2P) network for... →
translations translations...
Best of the day so far.. FUTURAMA: The beast with a million backs became in portuguese Futurama: The beast with a million ASSES
Why would translators need to know Shakespear, I ask.
debian patches explained.. or at least clearer for...
I thought that leaving the patch on the debian/patches and doing a dpkg-buildpackages would apply them and everything would be dandy.. WRONG
the patches have to be in the dpatch format.. that means
adding this on the top of a diff -u
#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## 99-patchname.dpatch by you <you@you> ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:’ are a description of the...