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” —-^ […]

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 […]

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.

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. […]

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 […]

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