linux-mint – Tarik Billa

X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

April 6, 2024 by Tarik

Under the section “Device.” Unfortunately, I have no such file Try creating your own xorg.conf file, placing it in this location will override your X settings after restarting X or simply by restarting the computer. mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf.bk # in case it exists cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf The content of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf would look … Read more

Debianzing a Python program to get a .deb [duplicate]

December 27, 2023 by Tarik

I just tested stdeb (see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb), a Python package for turning any other Python package into a Debian package. First I installed stdeb: apt-get install python-stdeb Then I made a simple script called myscript.py with the following contents: def main(): print “Hello world, says myscript!” # wait for input from the user raw_input() if __name__ … Read more

R 3.4.1 “Single Candle” Personal Library Path Error: unable to create ‘NA’

August 2, 2023 by Tarik

Elasticsearch can’t write to log files

August 1, 2023 by Tarik

If you installed elasticsearch using a package manager like yum or apt-get you should not start elasticsearch this way. Try to use the service: for instance /etc/init.d/elasticsearch or using the command sudo service elasticsearch start You should also check if the logging.yml file is at the location mentioned in the stack trace:/usr/share/elasticsearch/config Using sudo to … Read more

error: Unknown module(s) in QT: qml quick – Qt Creator

June 1, 2023 by Tarik

According to Hayt’s answer (and the askubuntu post), I had to install the qtdeclarative5-dev package.

pip install failing on python2 [duplicate]

May 30, 2023 by Tarik

The correct get-pip.py file for python2 has been moved to https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py

Setup Google test in CLion

May 28, 2023 by Tarik

Create new Project Create a repository in my ClionProjects folder cd ~/ClionProjects mkdir .repo cd .repo Clone the DownloadProject from github git clone https://github.com/Crascit/DownloadProject.git Create a C++ project with a src and test directory Add following files: CMakeLists.txt cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3) project(MyProjectName) add_subdirectory(src) add_subdirectory(test) src/CMakeLists.txt #set(core_SRCS ADD ALL SOURCE FILES HERE) add_library(core ${core_SRCS}) add_executable(exe main.cpp) target_link_libraries(exe … Read more

Empty function in BASH

May 21, 2023 by Tarik

You could use : that is equivalent to true and is mostly used as do nothing operator… dummy(){ : }

JAVA_HOME and PATH are set but java -version still shows the old one

May 15, 2023 by Tarik

While it looks like your setup is correct, there are a few things to check: The output of env – specifically PATH. command -v java tells you what? Is there a java executable in $JAVA_HOME\bin and does it have the execute bit set? If not chmod a+x java it. I trust you have source‘d your … Read more

The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

May 4, 2023 by Tarik

Try this: sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available sudo php5enmod mcrypt sudo service apache2 restart