Category Archives: Debian Lenny

Install backupexec 12.5 agent on Debian Lenny

By jacob | Published: May 12, 2009
The path to it is BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar.gz\BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar\pkgs\Linux\VRTSralus.tar.gz\VRTSralus.tar\VRTSralus-12.5.2213-0.i386.deb Unfortunately, the Deb package doesn’t specify It’s dependencies. You need to manually install the libstdc++5 package. aptitude install libstdc++5 You can follow the rest of the install here: http://insanelabs.com/debian/linux-symantec-backup-exec-12-and-debian-etch-3264/
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Group share for a Active Directory domain group with Samba

By jacob | Published: May 6, 2009
Once you have joined your samba server to your domain and have set up user authentication, creating a share that will allow a group of users to access files is pretty simple.  We need to create a folder that is owned by the root user and the domain group. The samba share will inherit permissions [...]
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Join Debian Lenny to Active Directory using Samba

By jacob | Published: May 1, 2009
If you install GNOME on Debian and intend to use it as a server, first thing you should do is remove the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages. This tool can be helpful on a desktop, but since we are tweaking DNS, IP addresses, and perhaps even NIC bonding, the network-manager can screw up your settings. aptitude purge [...]
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Rip and convert to MP3 files in Debian Lenny

By jacob | Published: March 23, 2009
To create an MP3 audio file in Lenny, you need to install the proper package to encode them. I suggest you add the “debian-multimedia” repository while you are at it. Edit your  /etc/apt/sources.list and add: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main run aptitude update then install the gstreamer lame encoder: aptitude install gstreamer0.10-lame Then you are done. You can launch soundconverter and convert [...]
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Install the proprietary Closed source version of Virtualbox on Debian Lenny

By jacob | Published: February 17, 2009
I like the closed source version of virtualbox. I just do. This is how to install it quickly and simply: add this to sources.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free run this to get the public key and install it: wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - then just install it aptitude install virtualbox-2.1 this will automatically create the group “vboxusers” and [...]
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