Santiance » Package http://santiance.com Kristopher Ives's Developer Notes Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:07:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Adding Twitter to Pidgin http://santiance.com/2010/02/adding-twitter-to-pidgin/ http://santiance.com/2010/02/adding-twitter-to-pidgin/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:39:16 +0000 Kristopher Ives http://santiance.com/?p=881 My friend Steven was raving about a plugin that adds support for the Twitter protocol to the Pidgin instant messenger. I’ve used a lot of other Twitter clients, but this is neat because it fits in with all my other instant messaging protocols.

It would be nice if there was a PPA on Launchpad that offered this, but I don’t have the time to do that, so I just grabbed the source from SVN and did a checkinstall on it for my 64-bit system. Heres the package:

libpurple-twitter-protocol_0.20-1_amd64.deb (70 kB)

]]> http://santiance.com/2010/02/adding-twitter-to-pidgin/feed/ 0 nautilus-open-terminal backport for Jaunty http://santiance.com/2009/08/nautilus-open-terminal-backport-for-jaunty/ http://santiance.com/2009/08/nautilus-open-terminal-backport-for-jaunty/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:19:41 +0000 Kristopher Ives http://67.43.13.30/~kives/wp/?p=124 Remote TerminalI am addicted to the “Open Terminal” plugin for Nautilus. I have a lot of different SFTP bookmarks and mounts, and I always want to open an SSH terminal using the menu. However, anyone using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) knows that it’ll crash the file browser, which is a serious bummer.

I’ve backported the package from the upcoming Karmic release:

Note: This backport was made before Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) was release, and a newer backport is probably available now. Check your repository first.

How I made that backport

I got the source from the nautilus-open-terminal page for the new version in Karmic, since this version isn’t in Jaunty. If it was in Jaunty you could get the source by simply doing apt-get source nautilus-open-terminal. Before you begin you’ll need any packages you don’t have that are needed for compiling by sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus-open-terminal.

Untar the sources using tar -xzf nautilus-open-*, and apply the patch using patch -p0 < nautilus-open-terminal_0.13-2.diff. Now inside the source directory (cd nautilus-open-terminal-*) execute debuild -uc -us -b to make an unsigned binary package.

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