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Script to clean ports
Since make clean seems not to work properly anymore#!/bin/sh cd /usr/ports for port in find . -name work -type d | sed -E -e ‘s/\/work.*$//’do cd /usr/ports/$port make cleandone
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Running Cinnamon on FreeBSD 10
If it fails to start complaining that it can’t find any theme install x11-wm/metacity
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Compiling latest versions of monodevelop on FreeBSD
Clone their repository from git (tarballs created by them fail way too often) git clone https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git Optionally checkout version you want to run (list tags by running git tag -l in that newly created monodevelop dir, and checkout one you want using command similar to git checkout tags/monodevelop-5.7.1.47).After that you need to edit file monodevelop/scripts/configure.sh…
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Interesting security related read
Can be found here – BetterCrypto.org and ECRYPT II
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HP printer with FreeBSD
Install /usr/ports/print/hplip-plugin (in the past mirror for that one was quite unstable so it was difficult to download all files needed). After that install /usr/ports/print/cups-filters as well (have no clue why they are removed from normal cups installation but without them you might have lot of errors similar to “Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job”. Printer…
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If skype 4.2 doesn’t work with FreeBSD
and if there are lot of messages similar to kernel: linux: pid 64067 (skype): linux_sys_futex: op FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI not implemented remove port /usr/ports/audio/linux-c6-pulseaudio-libs and make sure /usr/ports/audio/linux-c6-alsa-plugins-oss is installed (last one might require tweaking /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf) FreeBSD 10.2 and latest ports Some manual installation is needed (follow instruction from here) – short: # pkg install linux-c6-pulseaudio-libs# cd…