15May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Good bye CentOS! Hello Ubuntu

CentOS, Linux, PHP, Reviews, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu
Its been about almost more then two years since I have been playing with CentOS on many different platforms etc. Its very stable but on the other hand, PHP/MySQL updates are very hard to get and still PHP is 5.1.6. I tried EPEL repo and it updated PHP to 5.3.1 but still there were conflicts with stuff and many core packages. So, I thought why not move to Ubuntu since it has just announced 10.04LTS (Long Term Support) in April 2010. Folks at iWeb were really nice to do a reinstall without any charges and also process a memory upgrade request at an amazing 50% discount. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Apache 2 version is 2.2.14 PHP version is 5.3.2 MySQL version is 5.1.41-3ubuntu12 SVN (Subversion) version is 1.6.6 As a comparison…
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12Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Fixing Pear ‘unsupported protocal’ error

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tutorials
Are you getting the following error while updating any package in pear? pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal - This should never happen. I got this error right after I upgraded PHP from 5.2 to 5.9 (using CentOS-Testing repo). To resolve this situation, do this. [code lang="plain"]rm -fr /usr/share/pear/.channels[/code] and then do this [code lang="plain"]pear update-channels[/code] It should now give you the following output [code lang="plain"]Updating channel "doc.php.net" Update of Channel "doc.php.net" succeeded Updating channel "pear.php.net" Update of Channel "pear.php.net" succeeded Updating channel "pecl.php.net" Update of Channel "pecl.php.net" succeeded[/code] That's it, your issue is resolved.
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12Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

Fixing Webmin 1.5’s Software Package Update emails

Linux
Recently, I talked about getting an error in my mailbox instead of the notification email from Webmin 1.5's Software Package Update module. Today, I found a hint to its solution on the sourceforge.net email archives. This is a known bug and it will be fixed in next public release, if you don't wish to wait, you can do a devel-update of your webmin.
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11Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Webmin’s Software Package Update emails are not working

Linux
I have wrote yesterday about Webmin 1.5 features. I especially liked the one that will send me a notification when there is any update available to any of the components installed on my Linux box. To my disappointment, I never got any Software Package Updates module's email notification, instead I got this in my mailbox Undefined subroutine &main::list_all_current called at /usr/libexec/webmin/package-updates/update.pl line 12. I have no clue what this means or how do I fix it. Any one who can help me with this? Update: A fix is available for this bug
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11Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Webmin 1.5 features

Linux, News, Reviews
Two new features introduced in Webmin 1.5 that really attracts me are Software Package Updates module, it notifies about new available updates and optionally can send email and/or install security or all updates System Status, collects system information by running a background cron job on your system The interface has also improved a little, and its slower while loading (figures!), but gives more information in the dashboard.
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09Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

To update or not to update?

CentOS, Linux, Thoughts, Ubuntu
All my technical life, I knew and followed this simple rule New updates to any application or component are meant to improve and fix the bugs present in it. Downloading new updates ensures that you system is up-to-update, has fixes to all those bugs you have been getting annoyed with and more stable. Unfortunately not every IT department thinks that, especially the one I am facing at work. According to them, the new updates should only be applied IF and only IF they offer some new functionality (duhh!). Hello! what happened to the bug-fixes that are promised with these updates? (more…)
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07Aug 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

CentOS yum update missing dependency error

CentOS, How to, Linux, OpenSource, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials
If you are using [sourcecode lang="plain"]yum update[/sourcecode] on CentOS and getting the following errors Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386 (installed) gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 (installed) Don't panic, the solution is simple ... just run the following command [sourcecode lang="plain"]yum clean all[/sourcecode] Then do [sourcecode lang="plain"]yum update[/sourcecode]
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