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Skype 4.3 su linux Mint Maya

Dopo l’aggiornamento alla versione 4.3 attraverso Synaptic ho avuto questi problemi:

  1. menu_proxy_module_load ubuntu non verniva caricato correttamente;
  2. dopo il  Log in l’applicazione andava in crash.

Queste le soluzioni:

  1.  sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk:i386;
  2. copy /home/$user$/.Skype to /home/$user$/.Skype_bak.

Una parte della cronologia è stata persa.[:en]After  updating Skype from Synaptic on linux Mint Maya I’ve have had these kind of problems:

  1. menu_proxy_module_load ubuntu don’t load properly;
  2. Crash after Log in.

This is my trouble shooting:

  1.  sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk:i386;
  2. copy /home/$user$/.Skype to /home/$user$/.Skype_bak.

Probably you’ll lose part of your history

[:it]Importare un file GDB in un database postGIS[:en]Import file GDB to postGIS[:]

[:it]Questa è la sintassi che ho utilizzato per importare un geodatabase ESRI (formato GDB) in un geodatabase Postgis 2.0:

ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=hostname user=username dbname=mydb password=mypwd" mygeodb.gdb/ -a_srs EPSG:3003

Fonte: gdal.org[:en]This is the syntax I used to import an ESRI geodatabase (GDB format) into an existing postGIS database:

ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=hostname user=username dbname=mydb password=mypwd" mygeodb.gdb/ -a_srs EPSG:3003 - overwtrite

Font: gdal.org[:]

PSQL command linePSQL da riga di comando

Below some commands line I used to manage spatial data:

Import shape to postgis

shp2pgsql -s epsg_code -c -g geometry_column -I -t 2D -W LATIN1 shapename schemaname.tablename | psql -h hostname -d mydb -U username

Di seguito alcuni comandi psql che uso per gestire i dati geografici:

Import shape to postgis

shp2pgsql -s epsg_code -c -g geometry_column -I -t 2D -W LATIN1 shapename schemaname.tablename | psql -h hostname -d mydb -U username

Resizing a VirtualBox 4.2 virtual Hard Disk

Here a little how to increase the dimension of  VBox machine Hard Disk (ubuntu guest and host):

1. on a terminal host execute this command:

  $VBoxManage modifyhd 'YOUR_VDI_LOCATION' --resize SIZE_IN_MEGABYTES

      tips: for the size in megabyte go to Google  and type your desired size in gigabyte to be converted to megabyte. For example: 10 GB = MB –> the       result should be 10240.

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2. then I needed to physically expand the partition of the virtual disk. To do this I used the software “gparted” in the guest machine running a live CD version of my distro.

For further information take a look here

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Creare un lanciatore sulla scrivania di Linux mintCreate a desktop launcher on Linux mint

Ecco una piccola guida per creare un lanciatore  sulla scrivania:

1. Installare il pacchetto gnome-panel usando il seguente comando da terminale:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

2. eseguire il seguente comando da terminale

gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new



(font: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/)Here a little procedure to create a desktop launcher:

1. Install gnome-panel package using the following command from your terminal

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

Create new launcher:

2. open the terminal and run the following command

gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new

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Installing Adobe Air 2.6 on Linux Mint 13 ‘Maya’ (64 bit)

Hi all,

here you are a useful “how to” to install Adobe Air on linux mint ‘Maya’ 64 bit:

  1. Download the Adobe Air 2.6 runtime installer for Linux which can be found here.
  2. install a few things, by typing in “sudo apt-get install libhal-storage1 libgnome-keyring0 lib32nss-mdns“  <— lib32nss-mdns was the only file i didn’t have installed. It might be different for you.
  3. make sure libgnome-keyring0:i386 is installed with “sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring0:i386
  4. link your 32bit libgnome-keyring.so.0 to your /usr/bin with this command. “sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0″
  5. make the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin executable with “sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
  6. run the installer with “sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

This should start the installer and install it with no problems.

Thank you Chuck….

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