Archive for the 'Debian'

21 May 2010

adverick

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Chm files on Linux with firefox

Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) is a proprietary format for online help developed by Microsoft. One alternative for use in Linux is to install the extension for firefox chmreader then just create the following script and associating it with the files. chm to automate the process:

#!/bin/sh
url="$1"
chm="chm:file://$url"
exec /usr/bin/iceweasel "$chm"

Thus we for example save chm files in our library Zotero and then open them without going through the command line.

05 June 2009

adverick

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Installing SOAP:: Lite CPAN

In a test environment where I started working I had to install SOAP:: Lite using CPAN. SOAP:: Lite is a toolkit to use SOAP in perl. The installation order was:



  1. $ Perl-MCPAN-e shell
  2. cpan> install SOAP:: Lite


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03 June 2009

adverick

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Problems with subversion client

After upgrading some packages from Debian Squeeze / Sid the svn client command line stopped working, trying to make one checkout showed the following error:

  1. svn checkout http://tinyurl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tinyurl-read-only
  2. svn: OPTIONS of 'http://tinyurl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ": Could not connect to server (' http://tinyurl.googlecode.com)


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