To install EA under Linux with wine there are a few steps to take before it works and you are able to run EA plugins: Install winetricks Prepare a 32bit wine runtime with WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg (just click ok in the dialog) winetricks allfonts (this exited with an exit code on my machine, but this […]
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I tried to update gem behind a proxy and got the following error message: sudo gem update –system ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Connection timed out – connect(2) for “api.rubygems.org” port 443 (https://api.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz) Though the http_proxy and https_proxy (also in upper case) was set it didn’t work. Trying to set the proxy directly
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Updating to the latest grub version (at the moment 2.02~beta2-29ubuntu0.3) leads to “error: symbol ‘grub_efi_find_last_device_path’ not found” when I try to start Windows on my dual boot system having Ubuntu 15.10 next to Windows 10. This can be fixed by downgrading to the version before the latest one in the ubuntu repository till this bug
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To use redis for caching in magento2 I added the following part in app/etc/env.php: ‘cache’ => array ( ‘frontend’ => array ( ‘default’ => array ( ‘backend’ => ‘Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis’, ‘backend_options’ => array ( ‘server’ => ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘port’ => ‘6379’, ‘persistent’ => ”, ‘database’ => ‘0’, ‘force_standalone’ => ‘0’, ‘connect_retries’ => ‘1’, ‘read_timeout’ => ’10’, ‘automatic_cleaning_factor’
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To Update massive amounts of data in magento without going directly into the database I found an interesting piece of code under http://www.mydons.com/writing-custom-magento-shell-script/: <?php require_once ‘abstract.php’; /** * Mydons Inventoryupdate Shell Script * * @author Mydons */ class Mydons_Shell_Inventory extends Mage_Shell_Abstract { /** * Run script * */ public function run() { Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID); $file_handle =
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Ubuntu 15.10 is using lightdm desktop manager. man lightdm says that it is using /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for configuration. Ubuntu 15.10 does not include such a file. To disable the guest session create the file (/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf) with following content: [SeatDefaults] allow-guest=false
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To enable menu icons in gnome-shell this command does the trick: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides “{‘Gtk/ButtonImages’: <1>, ‘Gtk/MenuImages’: <1>}” Tested under Fedora 22 and 23.
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See https://docs.docker.com/v1.6/installation/fedora/ “The docker command line tool contacts the docker daemon process via a socket file /var/run/docker.sock owned by root:root. Though it’s recommended to use sudo for docker commands, if users wish to avoid it, an administrator can create a docker group, have it own /var/run/docker.sock, and add users to this group.” sudo groupadd docker
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Recently I had a problem on Fedora 23 with android tools: ./fastboot devices bash: ./fastboot: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory This resolved this issue: sudo dnf install libstdc++.i686
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