2008 Apr 24 - Thu
Installing Sun Java on Debian Lenny
Back in October last year, I mentioned how to get Sun Java installed in
preparation for Eclipse. The rules have changed a bit.
You still need to put 'non-free' at the end of teh deb and deb-src lines in
/etc/apt/sources.list. The secret to get the new flavour, which happens to be 1.6, is
'apt-get install sun-java6-jre' or 'apt-get install sun-java5-jre'.
Also, by default, Debian installs some other runtimes that seem to not work very well
with eclipse. So to select the proper one, which was installed with the command in the
previous paragraph, use 'update-alternatives --config java'.
On opening Eclipse/CDT, you may get an 'error opening the view', or some similar error
regarding opening a view. The configuration above
will make that error message go away.
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Installing VMWare Workstation 6 on Debian Lenny
The description that helped the best, actually, the only one at which I looked, is
located at eitch's blog.
It goes like this:
- cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
- cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
- sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar
- cd vmmon-only/include/
- sudo vi vcpuset.h
- change line 74 from: #include .asm/bitops.h. to: #include .linux/bitops.h.
- cd ../..
- rm vmmon.tar
- sudo tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
- sudo rm -rf vmmon-only/
- sudo vmware-config.pl
In addition, with Debian lenny, the gcc-4.2 compiler is installed. It looks like gcc-4.1
is also installed. If both are installed, the vmware-config.pl script asks for a cpp
compiler. At the prompt, supply gcc-4.1. If the compiler isn't resident, then use
'apt-get install gcc-4.1' to get it.
The installation works with the latest kernel available at the time. As headers are
required for the custom vmware build, the following worked for the kernel and headers:
'install linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686'.
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KDE on Debian
It used to be difficult to get KDE onto a Debian installation. Everything defaulted to
Gnome. In a way, it still does. If you do a standard desktop installation, Gnome is what
comes up. One could use apt-get to install KDE, but that would be the hardway, and would
leave Gnome residue hanging around.
The cleaner way to install KDE on Debian is to use 'install desktop=kde' at the initial
boot: prompt during the installation process. While on that note, 'install desktop=xfce'
maybe another alternative.
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