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Entries Tagged as 'HOWTO'

HOWTO: Extracting postinstall Scripts from a RPM

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

RPM packagers will often create shell scripts that help with the setup of the software that is going to be installed. If you want to look at what these scripts are going to do to your system run this command:

rpm -qp —scripts some-package.rpm > rpmscript.sh

Also handy in this context is seeing what files are […]

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HOWTO Install Fedora Ruby on RHEL

January 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Wherein we get a useful version of Ruby for RHEL.

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Upgrading PEAR on RHEL 4

November 27th, 2006 · 9 Comments

Wherein we figure out how to upgrade PEAR on RHEL 4.

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Tags: HOWTO · PHP

CAS-ifying Wordpress MU

October 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A huge thanks to Andrej Ciho for posting his HOWTO CAS-ify Wordpress MU. This could be a big help for us, and many other institutions that are using CAS.

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Tags: Authentication · HOWTO · Weblogs

RHEL 4 and php-xslt

September 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Having problems with php-xslt on RHEL? This might help you.

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Tags: HOWTO · PHP · Web Development

Fixing a hole…

May 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Wherein we fix CSS bugs.

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Tags: CSS · HOWTO · Web Design

Microformat Exercise Part 2: Faculty Listings

May 8th, 2006 · 8 Comments

Wherein we experiment with microformats.

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Tags: HOWTO · Microformats · Web 2.0 · Web Development

HOWTO: “Fix” Secure LDAP in PHP

February 18th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Wherein we slay openssl, php, and ldap dragons.

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Tags: HOWTO · LDAP