I installed Ubuntu 8.10, Alpha 6 on my Mac Book Pro (2nd generation) last night to give it a whirl. I didn’t do anything with bootcamp, just a straight install. The installer was fine, it went it’s normal route. When I rebooted it took a while – I guess this is expected when booting an [...]
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Eclipse and Ubuntu 8.04
April 7th, 2008
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I was having some trouble running Eclipse 3.3 Europa on Hardy Heron. It was unstable, crashing a lot, and hogging way more ram than it normally hogs. Then I realized what I’d forgotten to do on this fresh install. I forgot to simply ‘sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun’ and voila, it works like a charm. Eclipse [...]
Installing PHP Java Bridge on Ubuntu
March 4th, 2008
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Source Install First, make sure all php packages are updated — if you update PHP after installing this, it will likely segfault. For the purpose of this, I’m using Ubuntu 7.10, and Java 6 (sun-java6) First, get the build essential, as well as php5-dev, sun java and automake # apt-get install build-essential php5-dev sun-java6-jre \ [...]
