debian

Sometimes there is a bug in a package from Ubuntu that is not yet fixed, or you just want to modify something in the source of a software. Here is an easy way to build your own package from the Ubuntu sources. First you need to install the required tools for building software from source sudo apt-get install build-essential Let’s assume you want to build a package called foo and apply a patch bar.

I recently wanted to install Wuala on my brand new media center PC running Ubuntu on it. It was not that hard because there is an excellent tutorial on how to setup wuala on a headless machine. Unfortunately there was no script to start and stop Wuala on system start-up and shutdown. So I decided to create one. /etc/init.d/wuala (download) #!/bin/bash #!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: wuala # Required-Start: $network $local_fs $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $network $local_fs $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: start Wuala headless (wuala) ### END INIT INFO WUALADIR=/home/wuala WUALAUSR=wuala WUALALOG=$WUALADIR/out.