If you are among those brave (foolhardy?) enough to have already updated systems to Ubuntu’s Precise Pangolin, you may have encountered the following error while updating your system over the last 24 hours or so: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-core_1%3a3.5.0~beta2-2ubuntu2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Fortunately, there is a relatively easy …
Tag Archive: Linux
Mar
20
Farewell Odin – Good Job
Something almost sad about taking a server out of circulation after all this time. But time for a new version of Ubuntu or Arch Linux. ss@odin:/$ uptime 14:36:37 up 762 days, 3:39, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01 ss@odin:/$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 7.10″
Dec
07
IPv6 Difficulties
Until my VMware server machine crashed, I had a pair of IPv6 tunnels running for many months out of a pair of virtual machines. One was Ubuntu Hardy with a tunnel to Sixxs.net, the other an OpenBSD machine with a tunnel to Hurricane Electric‘s Tunnelbroker service. Wanting to get back into the IPv6 address space, …
May
07
Twhirl’ing on Linux
I’m not a huge fan of some of the things Adobe has released over the last couple years, e.g. the uber-bloated Acrobat Reader, but I do like their Air product. Sadly, until a couple weeks ago it was unavailable for linux… but that has now changed! Adobe Labs have released an alpha of Adobe Air …
Nov
24
Miro and Sun Java Plugin errors on Gutsy
I installed Miro the new Democracy player on my Gutsy laptop today. Unfortunately, when I fired it up, it spewed a long list of errors ending in /usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor Googling led me to this forum post, which references this bug report. All of which seem to point at the …