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12 Dec, 2013

Firefox 26 won’t run

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Firefox 26 error Fixed by installing language pack So, really quick: Firefox 26 is out and I installed it via apt-get on Kubuntu. On upgrading from Firefox 25.0.1 I couldn’t start Firefox and got an error in a small window: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Line Number 239, Column 5:    <broadcaster id=”devtoolsMenuBroadcaster_DevAppMgr” —-^ […]

04 Mar, 2013

Where’s my SVN WordPress plugin repo?

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How to locate your SVN repo to [re-]start SVN commits. SVN repo address I always lose everything, so as it’s been a while since I updated my WP plugins I’d managed to lose the SVN repository addresses. If you can’t rememeber what your plugins are called (!) you’ll have to login (make a note of […]

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20 Nov, 2012

Install MSTTcorefonts in Kubuntu 12.10

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Having problems getting the msttcorefonts / ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4ubuntu3 package to complete the installation of the MS Corefonts? Try installing pdns-recursor! Worked for me.

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19 Nov, 2012

Installing flash with winetricks

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Installing Adobe Flash using WINEtricks Standard winetricks flash installation fails I’m using Kubuntu 12.10 but based on the error this probably works with any recent linux distro. When I use the stock install of winetricks I get version 20120912 (“winetricks –version”); but this doesn’t mean much really as apparently the version isn’t bumped that often. […]

19 Nov, 2012

Safari 5 install on linux

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UNFINISHED – Following from past install of Safari 4 I’m attempting to get Safari 5 to install on Kubuntu 12.10 linux distro using WINE. Installation using WINE and standard repos Safari 5 from Apple Computers installs under WINE and runs without anything out of the ordinary being done. Sadly hardly anything in the application works […]

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07 Apr, 2012

Avast antivirus Ubuntu installation

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Avast antivirus on Ubuntu Installation problems Installed Avast antivirus on Ubuntu, well actually Kubuntu 64-bit, via a deb package from the Avast website: avast4workstation_1.3.0-2_i386.deb. For some reason the wrapper-script.sh file couldn’t locate the binaries and was giving an error at line 178 like so: /usr/bin/avastgui: 178: /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui: not found



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