For creating temporary files with unique names, there’s the hard way and then there’s the easy way.
I would have left a comment about this on a little stupid blog, but the comments were closed, so I’m making this entry in the hopes that Google’ll pick it up and show it to someone like I was a minute ago, forgetting the name of mktemp.
Not sure if all of the stuff I installed was necessary, but at least nothing required was missing when I did it like this. I’m writing this down from memory and not on-the-go, so there might be errors, but the idea is there.
# apt-get install miro python python-pyrex \
libboost-python-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
libboost-date-time-dev libboost-thread-dev \
libboost-serialization-dev python-gtk2-dev \
python-gnome2-extras-dev libxine-dev chrpath \
libxv-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dbus \
python-gtk2 python-gnome2 python-gnome2-extras \
python-glade2 python-gst0.10 imagemagick libxine1-x \
libxine1-plugins xulrunner-1.9 xulrunner-dev$ wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/src/Miro-1.2.8.tar.gz$ tar xvf Miro-1.2.8.tar.gz$ wget \
http://bugzilla.pculture.org/attachment.cgi?id=1096 \
-O miro.patch$ sed -i -e 's/1.1.2/1.2.8/g' miro.patch$ patch -p0 < miro.patch$ cd Miro-1.2.8/platform/gtk-x11$ ./run.shThe Miro team have fixed the YouTube issue I mentioned.
After YouTube’s/Google’s latest update I was offered the possibility to link my Google account to my YouTube account. There was banner with a link at the top of YouTube’s front page for this.
The update broke downloading of YouTube videos. This also means I can no longer get shows from YouTube into Miro.
Note to self: the next time GRUB starts exiting with 1 during postinst (when upgrading the kernel), check /boot/grub/device.map. Apparently the last time this happened, I had to change hd0 to point to sda, and this time I had to change it to point back to hda. Without this change grub-probe would fail, causing update-grub and thus the postinst to fail also.
Also, don’t be fooled by update-grub staying quiet; update-grub && echo success lets you know whether it did actually complete or not.
Ha, I just discovered that apt-get build-dep whateverpackage is an easy way to satisfy some, if not most or even all of the dependencies required for building whateverpackage from newer sources.
Looks like this takes a while without ready-made instructions, so I’ll jot ’em down here for future reference.
Euro/DATA/BIN/TAIL_061.BIN from the archive./usr/local/share/sane/snapscan for this purpose./etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and fix the firmware line to point to TAIL_061.BIN in wherever you put it in the previous point.scanner group. Log out and back in to make it actual.That’s it.
I just learned that mkisofs has been superseded by genisoimage.
In case anyone’s interested, I’ve branched off my Debian ramblings into a separate blog just as I did with posts related to Ubuntu earlier this year.
I just discovered that Lenny’s GStreamer plays Nellymoser’s flash audio without any difficulty. This is awesome and definitely so much easier than with Ubuntu Hardy. Back then I had to convert such FLVs’ audio tracks into MP3 using ffmpeg built from source.