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Warning: This is so easy, you'll feel guilty .

You've installed programs using “./configure” and “make” and d”make install” before. But it's often hard to uninstall such programs.

Luckily, the program checkinstall makes this easy. To use it:

1. Install it: In Debian (or Ubuntu), either install the package “checkinstall” through Synaptic or do apt-get install checkinstall.
2. ./configure as usual.
3. make as usual.
4. Run fakeroot checkinstall -D and answer its questions.

Ta-da! Now you have made a deb. package. (Running checkinstall with other options than “-D” will make different types of packages.)

You might have discovered that some of your programs have shiny yellow scrollbars, and others have blocky grey ones. The latter group is programs using GTK2, like Evolution and Rhythmbox. The former is KDE. You're most likely to see this if you run KDE. You can fix it by making everything look the same KDE way. Make sure you have this in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://kde-debian.org/archive/ workstation-unstable main

Then install these two packages:

• gtk2-engines-gtk-qt
• gtk-theme-switch

Finally, run gtk-theme-switch2 as your user, and select the “Qt” theme from the list. Your programs should look consistent now. (Except GTK1 programs like XMMS and gmplayer.)

I'm really sorry for this, but is there something wrong with this blog? I cant seem to get to it any other way other than by posting.

Ok, so its 3:30 on a saturday and you decide to sober up by checking out the latest videos on HotGirlsAndPonies.com… Now, you find this wonderful masterpiece involving a thoroughbred and a redhead when you realize that you want to save it for later. Unfortunatly, it is a video embedded into the website, unavailable for download.

right click on the section of the website containing the video, but not right on the video –> select “view page source” –> type “/embed” –> on this line in the page source editor, select the entire link of the video including the file extension –> in a terminal, type “wget 'filename'”

or, if that wonderful farm animal action is a streaming video

right click on the link to the streaming video (real player may not work) and copy the link to the clipboard –> go to a terminal and type “mplayer -dumpstream 'filename'” –> the video will be in one of the main directories as stream.dump –> change the name to the applicable name and extension

Do you you keep missing you IMs because you gaim windows dont pop up? I know I did. All you have to do is “Preferences -> Conversation -> IMs -> Raise window on events” Now I dont miss all of the invitations to go on dates with girls… or boys… or your mom.

I have a kernel package made for kernel 2.6. It's available from my FESTER account.

You will need the module-init-tools package, IF YOU USE MY PACKAGE OR NOT. It's packaged in Debian, and contains new versions of module utilities (depmod, insmod, modprobe, etc.) that support the new 2.6 kernel format.

You might be interested in The Wonderful World of 2.6 to learn why you MUST HAVE THIS NEW KERNEL!!!11.

This is a blog for users, lusers, questions, and answers on the topic of running a Debian or Debian-based system.

I made it because I run Debian, because Debian is the best GNU/Linux distribution, and because I have a tendency to make others use Debian.

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• Answer others!
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