Saturday, November 29, 2014

if video in skype doesn't work

cp /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
nano ~/.local/share/applications/skype.desktop
In 'Exec=' prepend 'env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l2convert.so'

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

compile TeX from WEB sources

sudo apt-get install libkpathsea-dev

mkdir TeXLive/
cd TeXLive/
svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/
cd source/texk/kpathsea/
./configure
cd ../web2c/
./configure # append '--with-x=no', or run 'sudo apt-get install libx11-dev' before './configure'
make tex
touch hyphen.tex
TEXINPUTS=/home/user/source/texk/tests/texmf/:. ./tex -enc -ini '\input plain \dump'
TEXFORMATS=. ./tex -fmt plain blah.tex

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

testing_rsync

jigdo-lite ...
  ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
  Ctrl-C
run once again (possible network errors)
if it's still not enough:
mv debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso.tmp debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso
rsync --verbose --progress rsync://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso