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Vergil · #31 Post by **Vergil** » 2007-04-23 00:42

Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or blogs. It retains an elegant design while supporting LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals, as well as derivatives such as WordPress and Drupal.

It also does spell check and supports direct input of html.

e1even1 · #32 Post by **e1even1** » 2007-04-23 07:03

Vergil wrote:drivel

what an apt name

jjmac · #33 Post by **jjmac** » 2007-04-23 08:00

Concerning checkinstall

rickh wrote:
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In a nutshell, the packages it creates have no mechanism for following Debian protocols related to program installation.
>>

Incorrect, it does have the mechanism.

A person can include pre and post intall/remove scripts. But the person needs to supply them. So in that sense it does have the mechanism.

Earlier checkinstalls would also install directly, but it doesn't do that now which is good. It also builds rpms and slack packages.

plugwash wrote:

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I agree its a crappy tool though and i would avoid it where possible.
>>

You seem to be missing the point, it's designed to allow a src build to be managed by a packaging system in the case where an appropriate package doesn't exist.

That is, when there isn't an available build set anywhere, .dsc .diff.gz .orig.tar.gz

It is not meant to be a replacement or an alternative to the official build sets. So your comparison is out of context. Within the context of 'what it's designed for' it is a very good tool. imo deb dosen't get served by biased opinion, whether it's pro deb or other wise.

You response to mzilikazi question

mzilikazi wrote:
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What would you suggest in its place for those times when only a source code build will do?
>>

is evasive, or you didn't understand the question !

My answer would be to use 'dh_make', that will create a debian directory with a set of build scripts that you can edit. Then from the top directory just run '

]$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfackroot 2>&1 |tee buildlog

jm

drl · #34 Post by **drl** » 2007-04-23 10:42

Hi.

There is a recent article on dh_make at http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1546215 briefly comparing checkinstall to it ... cheers, drl

maria22 · #35 Post by **maria22** » 2007-04-25 17:47

hi all..where i can find Gaim ??:)

mzilikazi · #36 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-04-25 17:56

maria22 wrote:hi all..where i can find Gaim ??:)

You can't. AOL killed it.
Now it's called pidgin:
http://www.pidgin.im/

rickh · #37 Post by **rickh** » 2007-04-25 18:03

# aptitude install gaim

Nice article on dh_make there, drl. Bookmarked. One of these days ...

I wouldn't use checkinstall on a bet. I'd rather just compile from source. My aversion to it comes from Martin Krafft's book. He implies that it'd be a cold day in hell before he ever used it.

rickh · #38 Post by **rickh** » 2007-04-25 18:04

# aptitude install gaim

Nice article on dh_make there, drl. Bookmarked. One of these days ...

I wouldn't use checkinstall on a bet. I'd rather just compile from source. My aversion to it comes from Martin Krafft's book. He implies that it'd be a cold day in hell before he ever used it.

Edit: Oops! Sorry.

plugwash · #39 Post by **plugwash** » 2007-04-25 18:05

jjmac wrote:You seem to be missing the point, it's designed to allow a src build to be managed by a packaging system in the case where an appropriate package doesn't exist.

That is, when there isn't an available build set anywhere, .dsc .diff.gz .orig.tar.gz

unless the build/install system is particularlly strage i still think you are better off doing it properly, it may be a bit of extra work the first time but it means that you don't have to do the whole process manually next time you want to build it.

Spontan · #40 Post by **Spontan** » 2007-04-27 05:10

Back on topic please. Im one of those noobs that wants to see what turns up. BUMP Baby!

chrismortimore · #41 Post by **chrismortimore** » 2007-04-27 07:06

falconseye - all the joys of nethack, but in 3D

katapult - think of a "Run command..." dialog box, but make it pretty, with autocomplete, and give it a calculator and the ability to change what song Amarok is playing.
kile - latex for idiots
moon-buggy - the ultimate game to waste your life with
njam - a really good pacman remake
rcconf - a lazy-mans tool for disabling services you don't need
sed - not enough people know the power of it
unison - lets you sync multiple computers with one click
yakuake - a doom-style terminal for KDE

Not sure how many of these count as unknown apps, but they all are cool

chrismortimore · #42 Post by **chrismortimore** » 2007-04-27 09:33

AgenT wrote:KMplayer:This is NOT KDE's version of Mplayer (that is KPlayer). KMPlayer uses many different backends, including xine and mplayer, to play media. Big feature is the nice intergration with Konqueror for imbedded media.

Just tried this out by the way, it's kick ass

Thank ye for enlightening me.

sleepyEDB · #43 Post by **sleepyEDB** » 2007-04-27 14:19

mrxvt

From the project homepage:

Mrxvt (previously named materm) is a lightweight, powerful multi-tabbed terminal emulator for the X window system. mrxvt is based on rxvt version 2.7.11 CVS and aterm. It implements many useful features seen in some modern X terminal emulators (like gnome-terminal and konsole) but aims to be fast, lightweight and independent of standard toolkits or desktop environments (e.g. Gnome / KDE).

I started using mrxvt because it supports transparency with multiple tabs and is highly customizable through the use of the .mrxvtrc file. If you'd like a copy of my .mrxvtrc file, just let me know.

sleepy

drl · #44 Post by **drl** » 2007-04-27 16:08

Hi.

jot

This is really more of a utility. I use it in scripts. If you don't do much in a terminal window, it would likely be of little value to you.

I first ran across it in the really big first edition of O'Reilly's UNIX Power Tools. I see that it is still mentioned in the 3rd edition on page 554, but I see no additional reference ... cheers, drl

Code: Select all

 
apt-cache show athena-jot

 Athena jot - or simply jot - prints out increasing, decreasing, random,
 or redundant data, usually numbers, one per line.
 .
 It's a tiny C program very useful within shell scripts

.

rickh · #45 Post by **rickh** » 2007-04-30 16:31

Here's an item that's been on your system all this time, that most people don't realize.

file:///usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html

Qew · #46 Post by **Qew** » 2007-04-30 17:38

About a year ago I met htop. Ever since then, we've been a happy couple, enjoying walks in the park, going out for meals, visiting the cinema and great process management and viewing. htop is basically the pretty yet more versatile sister of top.

sleepyEDB · #47 Post by **sleepyEDB** » 2007-05-01 14:11

Qew wrote:About a year ago I met htop...htop is basically the pretty yet more versatile sister of top.

Thanks! I've just installed htop and am quite impressed. I even added an extra tab to my default mrxvt (terminal) configuration just for htop!

sleepy

arvid · #48 Post by **arvid** » 2007-05-02 10:30

My selection

ncftp: a user-friendly and well-featured FTP client

bwm-ng: small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor

munin: network-wide graphing framework (grapher/gatherer)

encfs and fuse-utils: encrypted virtual filesystem && Filesystem in USErspace (utilities)

jobezone · #49 Post by **jobezone** » 2007-05-04 00:01

Don't know if tunapie overlaps these two apps.
streamtuner to listen to on-line radio streams,
and streamripper to record them.

DeanLinkous · #50 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2007-05-04 01:01

A bit silly, a little fun...but I use them.
saydate
saytime
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