Tag: freebsd
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Unzip multivolume zip file on FreeBSD
It can be done with port installed, but first multivolume zip has to be converted to single volume zip file. First runzip -FF path-to-multivolume-zip –out path-to-singlezipto convert to single volume, then you can unzip that one as usual.
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How to find out which preprocessor symbols are defined for C/C++ compiler
Run compiler with arguments -dM -E -xc++ /dev/null. (-x specifies language, so if you want to see predefined symbols for C, you should use -xc instead of -xc++). For example:clang -dM -E -xc++ /dev/nullorgcc -dM -E -xc++ /dev/null
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When USB devices don’t run properly in VirtualBox guest
Since FreeBSD is not officially supported by Oracle, they don’t make extension pack for it. For this reason all USB 2 and later devices will most likely fail in guest operating systems with weird errors (devices are recognized but they do not work later). Workaround for this is to force device to 1.1 within host…
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Making GNOME 3 usable under FreeBSD
As usable as it could be after their developers got infected by that brain parasite (it is funny how functionality-wise pretty much everything is done in wrong way). Plugins needed/enabled: To be able to install extensions from your browser make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your path. In order to have screensavers make sure…
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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…