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1) Make sure Google Talk plugin is installed.

2) In the terminal:

sudo apt-get install lib32v4l-0
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real
echo '#!/bin/sh' | sudo tee /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real" | sudo tee -a /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo chmod +x /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin

3) Restart Browser.

Done!

In case you need to revert:

sudo rm /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Google, Google +, Google Chat, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: Google chat, Google Plus, Webcam.

Install imapsync:

Under Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install imapsync

then:

imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --user1 username@gmail.com --port1 993 --ssl1 --password1 GmailPasswordHere --host2 imap.gmail.com --user2 username@YourGoogleAppsDomain.com --port2 993 --ssl2 --password2 GoogleAppsPasswordHere --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN --syncinternaldates --split1 100 --split2 100 --allowsizemismatch

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Google, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: gmail, Google Apps email, Linux.

Installing Thunar in gnome causes Nautilus to show a “the location is not a folder” error.

The problem is a thunar dependency called exo-utils.

Removing exo-utils also removes thunar. Some of us need to have both thunar and nautilus installed in gnome:
Since the problem is exo-utils, I have built a thunar .deb without the exo-utils dependency.

Here is how for 64bit:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/69753654/thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
dpkg-deb -x thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb tmpdir
dpkg-deb --control thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb tmpdir/DEBIAN
gedit tmpdir/DEBIAN/control

Remove ‘exo-utils’ from the ‘Depends’ line and save

dpkg -b tmpdir thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64-no_exo-utils_dependency.deb
sudo apt-get remove exo-utils
sudo dpkg -i thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64-no_exo-utils_dependency.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

Or

Download the package from here:

https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64-no_exo-utils_dependency.deb

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: gnome, Nautilus, Thunar, Ubuntu 11.04.

Be sure to enable the “Source Code” repositories first.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz gnucash-2.4.0.tar.gz

sudo aptitude build-dep gnucash
sudo aptitude install texinfo subversion intltool libdbi0-dev libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql} guile-1.8 guile-1.8-dev doxygen libdbi0-dev libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql}

cd /usr/share/guile/1.8
sudo ln -s ../../slib slib
sudo guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"

cd ~/gnucash-2.4.0/

./configure --prefix=$HOME/stable/gnucash --enable-debug --enable-doxygen --enable-error-on-warning --enable-compile-warnings --enable-dbi
make all install

and finally, run it

~/stable/gnucash/bin/gnucash

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: Database, GnuCash 2.4.0, MySQL, UBUNTU 10.10.

What is Simple Invoices?

Simple Invoices is a free, open source, web based invoicing system that you can install on your server/pc or have hosted by one of their services providers.

via Simple Invoices | An Open Source, Web-Based Invoicing System.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Linux, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: Open Source, SimpleInvoices.

This gem should be installed by default in all Linux distributions.

It even handles file attachments.

Highly recommended.

Gnome Gmail.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Firefox, Linux, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: gmail, Google Apps email.

Mozilla Messaging announced on Tuesday the official release of Thunderbird 3, a major update of the popular open source mail client. The new version brings great improvements, including an impressive new search system and support for tabs in the user interface.

The Mozilla Foundation began forming the Mozilla Messaging subsidiary in 2007 with the aim of giving Thunderbird a chance to soar. The company brought in former ActiveState CTO David Ascher to direct the organization and set its technical agenda. After he took the reigns in early 2008, he began documenting his team’s vision for Thunderbird 3, an ambitious update that would modernize the mail client in much the same way that the Firefox 3 release renewed Mozilla’s browser. The roadmap included plans to adopt Gecko 1.9 so that Thunderbird could leverage important improvements that had been made to the underlying architecture of the Mozilla platform.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, Web-Ecosystem.

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Using the terminal:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

and make sure the whole line reads

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

instead of:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

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