Howto | Install Microsoft Fonts
21 Mar 2009Quick Installation
Should be able to install simply by:
# apt-get install msttcorefonts
# dpkg-reconfigure --force msttcorefonts
Should be able to install simply by:
# apt-get install msttcorefonts
# dpkg-reconfigure --force msttcorefonts
KeePassX cannot be installed on Debian Etch, because of some dependency issues:
Version: 0.3.1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libqt4-core (>= 4.3.4), libqt4-gui (>= 4.3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4), libx11-6, libxtst6
# apt-get build-dep imagemagick
# apt-get install imagemagick perlmagick html2ps lpr libwmf-bin
See Testing below.
Internet Explorer for Linux
Versions of Wine greater than 0.92 seem to cause IES4Linux to consume vast amounts of CPU both for wineserver and iexplore.exe. This problem seems to occur when accessing SSL pages (possibly Active-X pages). Bugs have been logged with Ubuntu which was quite rightly redirected to Wine, which was rejected pending a regression test, which in turn was redirected to IES4Linux. The issue seems to be that Wine do not support native DLLs, but these are essential in making IE work under Linux.
You should be able to install from Backports:
$ apt-get -t "etch-backports" install flashplugin-nonfree
Courier-IMAP is quick and easy to install, but is probably not your best option for running a first class IMAP server. In particularly I have been strongly recommended Cyrus IMAP server. The big advantage to Courier-IMAP is that it can be very easily installed on your LTSP server as a temporary migration tool for email, i.e. to transfer users from Windows to Linux.
At the time of writing there are no Debian-based packages, so download the RPM client from the 2x website:
Just do an sudo apt-get jigdo-file and read the following:
Sound is one of those things in Linux which either works out-of-the-box, or drives you berserk. The following instructions did not solve my problems, but I leave them here for future reference.
The gospel for sound according to Debian:
$ cd /
$ tar cf - opt | (cd /archive; tar xf - )
You cannot run this command as “sudo”, if you need root access for your copy, then you will need to execute a “sudo su” or log in as root.