Echofon has officially announced it is dropping support for Custom build Firefox, so it will no longer work with “minor” platforms. How dare you Echofon!?  This is such short sightedness.

Apparently the previous version (1.9.6.4) of the Echofon plugin to Firefox still works, but I would appreciate suggestions for a different Firefox plugin. I would be happy to ditch Echophon alltogether, it was a good product untill the developers killed it for me.

If you get the error -  Echofon does not support this platform or custom build Firefox. (Can’t get OAuth signer.) / Cc['@naan.net/twitterfox-sign;1'] is undefined (Fx version 3.6.8 / ABI x86-gcc3) – according to the Echofon developers you are using a minor platform, and that includes 64bit build on Mac and Windows..

Technorati Tags: Debian, echofon, Fedora, Firefox, Linux, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Windows 64bit

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PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications.

While installing PHP-GTK under Linux, you need to have some libraries, extensions installed or it may cause the following errors.

Error: command make: not found

• OpenSUSE fix       $ sudo zypper in make
• Ubuntu fix             $ sudo apt-get make

Error: phpize  not found

• OpenSUSE fix      $ sudo zypper in php5-devel
• Ubuntu fix            $ sudo apt-get php5-devel

Error: buildconf not Found

• OpenSUSE fix      $ sudo zypper in buildconf
• Ubuntu fix            $ sudo apt-get buildconf

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Sometimes a corrupt installation package can corrupt your package management system leaving your Linux unable to install or on remove any packages (Software). Here is the message error I got from apt-get after trying to install ndas-admin for Ubuntu.

$sudo apt-get install mplayer   (or any package)
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information… Done
E: The package ndas-admin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.   (this is the error)

I tried : $ sudo apt-get install -f  , to try to fix the problem but got the same error. The only option I had was to edit the dpkg status file manually.

1. $ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status    (if you prefer you can use vi instead of gedit)
2. Locate the corrupt package, and remove the whole block of information about it and save the file. Mine looked like this:

• Package: ndas-admin
  Status: deinstall reinstreq half-configured
  Priority: extra
  Section: alien
  Installed-Size: 100
  Maintainer: root <root@ubuntu510>
  Architecture: i386
  Version: 1.0.2-24
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
  Description: Administration toosl for XIMETA,Inc NDAS device driver for Linux operating system
   ndas-admin – This program allows the user to register/enable/disable/unregister the XIMETA NDAS hard disk.
   .
   (Converted from a rpm package by alien version 8.53.)

Fixed. Hope this helps someone else.

Technorati Tags: Fix DPKG, Linux, ndas-admin, Ubuntu

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When I first installed Ubuntu Linux on my Laptop I could not get it to work properly with the ATI Radeon Mobility X700. After a lot of searching and installing loads of rubish on my computer I then gave up. I later found one, stupidly simple way of dealing with it but no one had mentioned it in anywhere. Ubuntu has  a tool for managing proprietary drivers, it lives under Main Menu>>System>>Administration>>Hardware Drivers

After installing the proprietary driver you can enable the advanced video effects:

1. right-click on the desktop
2. select “Change Desktop Background”,
3. click on the tab Visual Efects and select you choice.

It does work nicely .I found that it flickers while using high resolution video applications like Second Life or playing games so all you need is to disable the advanced Visual effects before using these programmes.

Technorati Tags: ATI Radeon, Linux, Ubuntu, Video Driver

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Sometimes (just sometimes) a Linux Desktop user needs to run a program eg: Nautilus as the root user which you can easily do with the commandline $sudo nautilus.  If you have the command line shell open why not do you file management throught it? Well it’s nice to have more options like a Desktop launcher (Shortcut) that will open an application as root and prompt for the root password (all as a GUI).

This can be achieved using gnomesu or kdesu, depending on the Desktop Manager. Installing is very easy, can be done via the CLI (Command Line Inteface) or usign your package manager by searching for libgnomesu0 and libgnomesu-common (for Gnome users), the kdesu comes installed as part of the base installation of  KDE.

The CLI installation route on Gnome

Debian based distros (eg.: Ubuntu)

 $ sudo apt-get install libgnomesu0 libgnomesu-common

Suse Linux

$ sudo zypper in libgnomesu0 libgnomesu-common

Note that on Ubuntu you have to activate the root user account and give it a password:

1 – Go to Main Menu>>System>>Administration>>Users & Groups
2 – Unlock the Application (requires user password)
3 – Select Root account, activate it and under properties change password

Usage:

1 – Testing: press ALT+F2 and at the prompt type gnomesu Nautilus, a password prompt should appear, so type the root user password and Nautilus should open with root previledges.

2 – Desktop Launcher (Shortcut): (CTRL+ALT+D to show Desktop)

• right-click on your Desktop
• Select “Create Launcher”
• Add Name: (Can be anything eg.: Nautilus as Root)
• Command: gnomesu nautilus (nautilus is the application I want to use, you could use any othereg.: gimp, gedit, etc)

That’s all

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Full DVD support on Linux is an old issue. It has to do with the Linux distros not being shipped with the w32codecs and the libdvdcss2, for legal reasons in some countries. The users must then download and install them by themselves with no clear guidance.

Here are the simple steps for installing these libraries under Debian based distributions.

The GUI Route: (CLI users forgive me but if there’s a GUI, users diserve a choice.)

1 – Download the w32codecs

2 – Download the libdvdcss2

3 – Double click on the packages, one at a time and use the Package Installer to install them quickly and painless

The CLI (Command Line Interface) route

cd Desktop

wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20071007-0.1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20071007-0.1_i386.deb

wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb

See this relared post about OpenSuse and SLED10

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I acquired a 3G Mobille Broadband – Huawei E156G – USB Dongle and really wanted to get it going on my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop. After much looking around and trying several unsuccessfull ways of doing it found a very easy and working solution.

Basically Linux will recognize your Huawei E156G USB Dongle and you can check that by listening to your USB devices, just run the following command on yor terminal  lsusb this should output something like this:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

if this is working, follow the tutorial on this post 3G Mobile Broadband with Ubuntu-EEE

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