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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

antonio lorusso — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:58:51 +0000

Tired of this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Do this:
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Be happy again

VIM and the clipboard on Ubuntu

antonio lorusso — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:16:56 +0000

If you want to copy and paste from Vim to the clipboard, install the package vim.gtk and enjoy the command “+y !

PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

antonio lorusso — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:47:53 +0000

I have been using the dotdeb repository on karmic for a while, but today, when I installed the new Lucid Lynx, it just became a mess so I decided to keep all the original ubuntu packages (Lucid ships php 5.3.2) and find an alternative repo for php-fpm which I use on my dev machine.
Here it is:Brian’s php5-fpm : Brian Mercer

Happy 10.04!

upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream

antonio lorusso — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:21:46 +0000

if you have this error from nginx with php-fpm and output_buffers = On in your php.ini then try to increment the buffer size in nginx:
fastcgi_buffers 8 16k; fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;

disable Pure-ftpd logging on syslog

antonio lorusso — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:33:04 +0000

Pure-ftpd is a bit tricky to configure because do not handle the configuration like any other daemon in Linux so you will not find any /etc/pure-ftpd.conf.

According to the pure-ftpd documentation, you should start the daemon already with the options you need. The default Ubuntu installation, use the files in /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/ to set the options for the startup script of pure-ftpd so, to disable the logging, execute the following command in your shell and restart the daemon
$ echo "none" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/SyslogFacility $ /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart

Firefox 3.6 stable on Karmic

antonio lorusso — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:41:13 +0000

I’ll just paste here the usual simple steps to install the latest firefox 3.6 on your ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Have fun

PulseAudio Equalizer

antonio lorusso — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:00:59 +0000

I’ve always thought the the linux community is made by brilliant minds and here is one: psyke83 from the ubuntu forum. Here is his script that finally brings an always wanted equalizer in our Ubuntu desktops : http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8210866&postcount=1
I’ve installed it on my machine and my ears are happy now

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

antonio lorusso — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:20:30 +0000

Git explained by his the creator. I’m more convinced than ever!

the correct procedure for compiling subversion 1.6.2

antonio lorusso — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:44:35 +0000

Not sure if this is the complete way of doing it (I’m not telling you which .deb to install), but it worked for me:

Remove some waste from eventual previous compilations:
$ rm -rf /usr/loca/lib/libsvn* $ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libapr* $ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libexpat* $ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libneon*
Run autogen
$ ./autogen.sh
Configure and install (it is important to follow the order)
$ ./configure $ make -j external-all $ make -j local-all $ sudo make install
That’s it. Hope to have helped someone as usual.

bash: mv files with a specific date to another directory

antonio lorusso — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:13:33 +0000

I was searching for a bash command to move files and directories from a folder to another with modified in a specific date for ages on google until I gave up and decided to write it myself:
ls -l | awk '$6 == "2009-06-04" { print $8 }' | xargs -t -i mv {} /destination/folder
To understand what this line does, you need to know a bit about awk and xargs (try “man xargs” in your shell)

Explaination:

ls -l : directory listing
awk ‘$6 == “2009-06-04″ { print $8 } : take the files and dir with date 2009-06-04 and print the list
xargs -t -i mv {} /destination/folder : execute the mv command. {} is the result from the previous command.

I would like to explain you more, but I’m quite lazy and I leave you with google to undestand better the commands I’ve used.

Have fun!