To Compile wpa_supplicant on Debian 3.1 Sarge
I was using good old Debian Linux 3.1 Sarge when I found out Sarge’s wpasupplicant couldn’t work well with ndiswrapper-supported Windows network drivers More here So I set out to compile wpa_supplicant...
View ArticleRebuilding Debian Packages from Source
This quickie howto will explain the steps necessary to recompile a Debian software package on the local machine from source code. More here Rebuilding Debian software packages is necessary in order to...
View ArticleCompile Aria2c on Debian Linux
Aria2 is a fast download utility that you use in the Command Prompt or xterm. To compile aria2 for Linux, install the following packages. More here Although Debian 5.0 Lenny has libc-ares2, Debian 4.0...
View ArticleHow To Create A .DEB Package
This article wants to be an introduction to creating .deb packages, meaning I will not get into more advanced procedures like creating a menu entry, custom configuration, explaining the rules file and...
View ArticleCompiling for your N900 on debian
Only snag is the pre-built version didn’t support long sms’s, so I needed to patch and re-compile. That means needing an arm cross-compiler, the build environment etc. More here Since it runs linux,...
View ArticleCompile and Install Latest VLC in Debian Lenny
This tutorial will show how to compile and install the latest VLC from source in Debian Lenny in several steps. The current version at the time of writing is VLC 1.0.1, so the tutorial should work...
View ArticleHow To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny...
rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system – contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. More here In the...
View ArticleCompiling VLC 1.0.6 from Source on Debian Lenny 64 bit
This guide is intended as an introduction to compiling software from source, with the added benefit that the result is something very useful –an up-to-date media player– to the typical user. I have...
View ArticleCompiling Dropbox client under Debian Squeeze
I was recently invited into Dropbox cloud file sharing service by a friend of mine and as it usually happens – you can install client easy in Ubuntu and Fedora, but not in Debian. To be more precise,...
View ArticleCompiling linux kernel on debian
Here are the steps to compile a kernel from source in debian based systems. These steps have worked successfully on debian 6.0 (linux 2.6.32) – You will need a package by the name kernel-package, which...
View ArticleKernel 3.12 Released – Install and Compile in Debian Linux
In this case, we are going to compile a newly released Kernel 3.12, on Debian Wheezy. The newly released Kernel 3.12 has several new features, including some new drivers for the NVIDIA Optimus, and the...
View ArticleHOW-TO:Compile XBMC on Debian or Ubuntu
This is a tutorial on how to compile and install XBMC on Debian or Ubuntu http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Compile_XBMC_on_Debian_or_Ubuntu
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