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2 ago 2014

Debian 7 "Wheezy" & Oracle Java

the easy way: the debian way

In more cases the icedtea plugin is a good solution in order to run java applet in your browser
Sometimes doesn't work, as example with fineco bank, a italian online service.
Sometimes the last version of icedtea-plugin is not up to date; now last version of oracle java is 8.

One easy way to install it, it's explain in the debian's wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Sun

3 steps:
- download last tar.gz (32 or 64 bit) of java jre
- make a debian package with make-jpkg
- install the .deb package created with dpkg -i

unfortunately when new version of java is released, you must be re-create the deb package, but it takes only 5 minutes

Happy good applets ;)

18 apr 2014

ruby and apt-listbugs, how to solve some bugs

Sometimes in debian, when ruby package change, apt-listbugs blocks the updates of aptitude
to solve sometimes is possible disable apt-listbugs, update the debian system and after enable apt-listbugs .

as root
#mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs /root/

after update
#aptitude update; aptitude -y safe-upgrade

if the update is ok

#mv /root/10apt-listbugs /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

that's all

Some bugs resolved
#721583 [apt-listbugs] ruby-gettext has undefined method, all package actions fail
#735116 apt-listbugs: […]/debian.rb:24:in `require': no such file to load -- debian_version (LoadError)
#744754: apt-listbugs: Bug with Ruby, crashes aptitude