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For various reasons I won’t go into, you can’t get Subversion 1.5 to build on Ubuntu 8.04.  You can however install it from this alternative repository…

First, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/clazzes.org/ubuntu hardy main

Then update the repo and install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install subversion

Now go back into the sources.list and remove (or comment out) that repository:

# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/clazzes.org/ubuntu hardy main

All done!

Thanks to Seffyroff for ferreting out this info, gleaned from various locations.  This reportedly works with both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Ubuntu.

I have no idea if there’s a significant reason for the Wordpress editor being limited to 980px wide, but it’s easy to fix.  Just edit /wp-admin/css/global.css, find the section for “.wrap, .updated, .error” and remove the line that says “max-width: 980px;”

If you move or copy a VM, you’ll be asked if you want to Create or Keep the identifyer for it.  If you create a new one, one of the actions VMWare does is to change the MAC address of the NIC.  Since some of the networking config is tied to this information, you have to perform some steps in Ubuntu to make it think your main NIC is eth0 again…

The solution is simple: delete the udev rules for the NIC and reboot:

sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
sudo reboot

In the second part of this tutorial series, we’re going to install Trac and integrate it with the Subversion repository we setup last time, and also add Basic Authentication. (more…)

In this tutorial-series we’re going to create a Subversion and Trac server for integrated Project and Source Code Management. (more…)

Just a quickie this time, how to install the VMWare Tools for Ubuntu.

It should work out-of-the-box, but there’s a problem with the vmhgfs module not building correctly. If you’re struggling installing these tools, read on… (more…)

This is a quick and brief run-through of the default Ubuntu 8.04 Server setup I use for all my testing, development environments and tutorials on this blog.  I thought I pop this up here so if you want to follow through the other articles, you have the same starting-off point as me.

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Using the fantastic SSL Explorer it is possible to access your computer(s) from anywhere, securely and without having to install lots of software on the machine you’re using. All you need while you’re out-and-about is a web-browser! There’s even a free version , so you can get enterprise-grade SSL very economically.

Here’s how I installed SSL Explorer 1.0.0 RC17 Community Edition on a Ubuntu 7.10 Virtual Machine…

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Just a quickie this time, how to install the VMWare Tools for Ubuntu.

It should work out-of-the-box, but there’s a problem with the vmhgfs module not building correctly. If you’re struggling installing these tools, read on… (more…)

I’ve been playing around with Google Maps, just for a laugh really.

Here are some of the places I’ve been. Too many pins seems to make it a bit cluttered, I need to spread my visits around a bit more!  It is possible to use custom pin-images too, so I could create some smaller ones and use those.  (Not tried that, so it might just scale them up, no idea)

This is a map