I am using a software called Texmaker, it uses another program (i think they called it a backend, am i right?) called biber. The current version of biber in my computer is: Biber 1.9. I have tried to download a current version of biber in the webpage http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/ (i am sure it is the correct programme and webpage).
The problem is that Texmaker still recognize the old version (1.9)and not the new one. What should i do?
Where should i unpackage biber?
Another question, Biber is downloaded in a tar.gz file, so i uncompressed it and it was finished.
I am not sure if it is wrong or not, i mean, only uncompress the file to install it.
Extra data: The version of linux i have is based on Debian.
Debian updates packages continuously, but for releases that are already out it takes special care not disrupt and does not update much more than what is required for security purposes. The page https://packages.qa.debian.org/b/biber.html shows that version 2.7 is already available, but only in the next version of Debian which is called "testing". A new release of Debian is expected "real soon" and then what is stable now will be referred to as old stable and today's testing will be the new stable. You may decide to just wait for that upcoming release to then upgrade your complete installation of perform a partial upgrade now as described below.
To get to the new version you could download the .deb package following https://packages.debian.org/stretch/all/biber/download and install it with "sudo dpkg -i biber_2.7-2_all.deb". This substitutes your previous version. There is no need to manually decide where to put a Debian package - all previously installed files of that package will be removed and all the files in the .deb file at hand are unpacked at fixed locations. Which files that are you can inspect with the "-c" option, i.e. "sudo dpkg -c biber_2.7-2_all.deb". A program that worked with biber before should now also function with that new version. Should. Just give it a test. If it works then you are done with your update.
The art of assembling a joint release of software packages is the difficulty to avoid side effects. It is common that an upgrade of one packages breaks other packages. But this is not necessarily so and the packages declare any known such dependencies on the versions of other packages. If there are many additional dependencies that you need to co-update with that new version of biber, it may then be preferable to add the download information to stretch to /etc/apt/sources.list (copy the reads jessie or stable now and substitute that with stretch or testing). You then run "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get install biber" to have version 2.7 installed.
Have you installed texmaker also from Debian? That testing release also offers texmaker 4.5 over version 4.3 of the stable distribution features. If your problem was not solved with 4.3 then it may be worthwhile to attempt also an update of texmaker. It is then from the same Debian release as is biber and they should work together since this "togetherness" is what a release is about. You can download the Texmaker .deb file as explained before or with the extended sources.list file use apt-get install texmaker. Again, there is no need to specify any program locations. What is old is removed, the new version of the packages takes it position.
With the new Debian release now so close, not too much should go wrong. But if you are professionally depending on your machine then please try this first on another computer to learn and of course please have backups. Once the biber package was updated, remove or comment out (start the line with the # sign) in /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update again. The newly installed biber package will not be removed again since its version is newer than.
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a client of mine asked to add videos to their website, i decided to install FFMpeg on their server so whenever they upload a video, the service automatically generates the first frame for the preview and encodes them in webm.
Sadly it seems to be impossible to install without having to compile it myself (which i don't really want to do as i have never done it before and don't want to risk breaking something in their server),
The server is running cento6 but EVERY repository that provides the centos6 version of FFMpeg seem to use dependencies from dead hosts (they are offline and unreachable), every solution i find ends up with the same error like "Couldn't resolve host 'apt.sw.be'"
I've changed yam repositories, installed apt-get to try with that instead of yam, disabled and enable repos like nux that seem to be very outdated, even followed posts that were published/updated recently like this but they all keep ending up with the the same "Couldn't resolve host..." when installing decencies.
Is there any live and updated repo that provides a way to install FFMpeg for centos6 with yum or apt-get in 2022?
Thanks
EDIT
Following Romeo's tip about downloading the binaries, i managed to install it but in my case i needed a older 32 bit version to make it work (else i'd get Kernel too old):
$ wget https://www.johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/old-releases/ffmpeg-4.0.3-32bit-static.tar.xz
$ tar xvf ffmpeg-4.0.3-32bit-static.tar.xz
$ sudo mv ffmpeg-4.0.3-32bit-static/ffmpeg ffmpeg-4.0.3-32bit-static/ffprobe /usr/local/bin/
What you can do is to try to install statically build ffmpeg binary. This will help you not to search for contemporary package and update your CentOS.
You can try this version (64bit version).
Im trying to get something running in a lab, and I need to install a whole bunch of packages to compile the code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libwx-perl libmodule-build-perl git cpanminus libextutils-cppguess-perl libboost-all-dev libxmu-dev liblocal-lib-perl wx-common libopengl-perl libwx-glcanvas-perl libtbb-dev libxmu-dev freeglut3-dev libwxgtk-media3.0-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libextutils-makemaker-cpanfile-perl
The problem is, I'm working on a Mac; So I only have brew available - and the package names are not equivalent.
Am I trying to do something dumb and impossible, or is there a way to cross reference those apt-get packages to ones available in brew and install those so I can build the app?
For added context, its a modified "slicer" application for generating files that a 3d printer uses to make parts. I could fire up an ubuntu VM and use apt-get, but I'm on an M1 mac at the moment and recompiling experimental QEMU code just so I can fire up an ubuntu VM takes me way more out of my depth than I already am... I'm running brew on a duplicated, rosetta emulation forced terminal.
There is no straightforward way to automatically figure out whether a corresponding Homebrew package exists for each of these packages, no. But you can probably guess the majority, and manually figure out the rest. Each Debian package has a link to the upstream sources, and a home page if one exists, from which you can often find links to packages for other architectures, etc.
From the Debian package search page you can search e.g. for the libxmu-dev package, and discover the corresponding package page for Buster (the current stable Debian release), which in turn has links to the upstream repo, etc. But this is an X11 package, so it's not straightforwardly compatible with macOS, which uses an entirely different GUI architecture.
My console recently made me aware that the git version I have installed on my Mac has various security flaws and I was advised to upgrade.
I don't know how to use homebrew so I have gone for an easier option. I was recommended to download the following installed by git-scm.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/?source=typ_redirect
I have installed the package but my terminal still shows:
MacBook-Pro-3:~ mruser$ git --version
git version 1.9.0
MacBook-Pro-3:~ mruser$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git
I have noticed that this version is in the /bin/ folder, which may be the problem? Since the other version installs in the /local/ folder.
How do I remove the old git version 1.9.0 so I can successfully install the new version? (without affecting any of the applications I'm working on)
Thanks for having a look and for any input!
The Git in /usr/local (presumably 1.9.0) is shadowing the new release. To determine which program to use, your shell looks through a list of directories stored in your PATH environment variable. You can see it with echo $PATH. Generally /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin so you can use newer versions of software without overwriting the system supplied ones.
You need to remove the old version from /usr/local. How you do this depends on where you got Git 1.9.0. If it has an uninstaller, use it. If it doesn't, you can look through /usr/local and delete anything with "git" in it, that will probably be safe.
In the future, use a package manager like Homebrew or Macports. They will track what you have installed and make it much easier to upgrade them.
I have firefox 3.0.12 on my redhat 5.8 and I'm trying to update it.
But, yum update firefox does not find and new version and keeps finding only 3.0.12
I have also tried updating yum itself.
I have also tried downloading firefox tgz, but I get a lot of dependency files missing. So going that route is very tedious and I'm finding it hard to download the dependent .so files.
How do I update using yum or is there a .rpm for firefox that I can download and install(I did not find one on the mozilla website)
If yum upgrade firefox does not report any possible updates, you probably do not have proper channels enabled (you are not subscribed into these). You should see rhel-x86_64-server-5 (depends on your architecture and RHEL variant - Server/Client...) in output of command yum repolist. If it is not there you have to register into RHN Classic (rhn.redhat.com) or your company's Red Hat Satellite or something else - depends on your company's policy.
If you have that channel available, upgrade to firefox-31.2.0-3.el5_11.x86_64 (which seems to be latest in RHEL5 channel) should be offered.
Firefox 3.0.12 is the latest version available in repository of 5.8 and so you are getting same. If you need the latest version then upgrade the OS itself or download the rpm manually and install with yum localinstall command.
I am trying to install gcc 4.6 (mainly for having C++0x better supported) in my ubuntu 9.10 (via virtualbox). I referred to previous questions, but I am getting a different error.
I am referring this link for the installation. Now, I have done till the ./gcc-xx/configure ... step. Though it was giving some flex package related error. Mostly due to that make is also failing with below errors:
build/gengtype.o: In function
adjust_field_rtx_def':
/home/milind/ubuntu_shared/GCC/build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6-20110610/gcc/gengtype.c:978:
undefined reference tolexer_line'
/home/milind/ubuntu_shared/GCC/build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6-20110610/gcc/gengtype.c:1032:
undefined reference to lexer_line'
/home/milind/ubuntu_shared/GCC/build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6-20110610/gcc/gengtype.c:1042:
undefined reference tolexer_line' ...............
Now this is giving me a hard time figuring it out because I have already flex/bison latest versions installed. I searched over internet for 2 days almost but no luck. Any help would be really appreciated. Also note that, I already have gcc 4.4 installed in /usr/bin/gcc and I have unzipped the gcc 4.6 tar in my home directory local folder.
[Note: I am also ok with installing ubuntu 11.10 too (which has gcc 4.6) as last resort. But I don't know if its .iso image is available.]
I got this fixed. I followed following procedure:
[Note: run all the commands with sudo, if you are not login as root. e.g. sudo ls -ltr; sudo make install;
As mentioned in the link in my
question, download the gcc4.6...tar
file in a temporary place
Now find the place where current
gcc is stored. e.g. My earlier
gcc4.4 was stored in
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu. Which
has a folder called 4.4, 4.4.1
Create a folder named 4.6 (or
4.6.1/2/3 etc.) and put that
.tar file inside it. Untar the
file as shown in link.
Follow all the procedure as per the
link. Use nohup <command> & to
track the logs. i.e. nohup make
clean all & followed by tail -f
nohup.out
If some error comes, it means some
package is missing. Mostly those
package will be present in your
current gcc version. You can
install them there itself. For
example, in my case zlib was
missing. I ran sudo apt-get install
zlib1g-dev libssl-dev and it worked
fine. Otherwise download from internet and install it.
Once your gcc is installed, you
can simply check it using type
gcc-4.6. In my case it showed that
it's stored as
/usr/local/bin/g++-4.6.
Either you can use the same path to
compile or you can put an alias in
your bash/tcsh/ksh. e.g.
/usr/local/bin/g++-4.6 -std=c++0x
-Wall test.cpp
FWIW Debian testing and unstable have gcc-4.6 as a standard package. So you can simply install that distro inside of virtualbox or, as I've done on my Ubuntu 11.04 server at home, via kvm. In the past, I also used to use dchroot build environments.
There may also be prepackaged gcc-4.6 binaries at launchpad.