I recently had this following fatal error on an CentOS VPS server: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath} Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 84, in [...]
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administration,
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gnu/linux,
linux,
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yum
And once again I’m having fun with blender… ;-) In this semester at my University we’ll have to do some simple 3D stuff in XSI. As I don’t want to “learn” a proprietary program I won’t have access to in my future I’m learning to use blender :-) It’s such an amazing tool, and the [...]
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blender,
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freedom,
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gnu/linux,
open source,
study
Let’s drop a little humor in this time… You, brave Terminal Hero, shall kill -9 the daemon that has hidden itself in one of those files! We don’t know in which file you can find it though! We’re running out of time! The kingdom of GNU will be rm -rf‘d if you won’t make it [...]
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hack,
linux,
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tips
A great bash feature I just discovered is the “^blabla^bla” command (is it a “command” by the way..?) If typing stuff quickly by hand, typing mistakes (typos) happen… And it’s not really fast to fix them by using UP ARROW and then fixing the command by “hand”… A better, quicker way to do this is [...]
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bash,
coding,
gnu,
gnu/linux,
linux,
terminal
I really love the Exaile gnome music player, and not so long ago version 0.3.0 was released. First thing i did was of course wget && tar xzvf && make && su -c ‘make install’ ;-) but… I’d rather have a version from the repository, to update it easily. As no package for Fedora 11 [...]
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gnu/linux,
linux,
open source,
terminal,
tips,
tricks
Just a quick vim tip today… Have you been coding/fixing stuff on the server over ssh using vim? I sure have, but was always wondering why the vim on my server wouldn’t highlight php… The solution is: :syntax on Whoa, 2 words, not 2 letters like usually! Thats pretty long for vim ain’t it? ;-)
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php,
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