Technology related solutions, tips, tricks, and other interesting topics
In: General IT Info
17 Mar 2008Library files in CentOS 64 bit are stored in the directory /usr/lib64. But in normal 32 bit CentOS, library files are stored in /usr/lib so this causes a problem when trying to compile source code that looks for library files in /usr/lib. When using the default configure options for compiling PHP, the directory /usr/lib is [...]
In: General IT Info
15 Mar 2008Install software needed by VMware Tools 1. Install packages to build the kernel modules yum install gcc kernel-devel 2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers uname -r # running kernel rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers 3. If the two versions do not match, run yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel reboot 4. [...]
In: Apple
15 Mar 2008This script uses otool -L to determine and print all dynamic library dependencies of a given executable or library file recursively and you use it like this: $ checklibs.pl /bin/ls /bin/ls: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib: /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib Here’s the script which was written by Marc Liyanage: #!/usr/bin/perl # # Written by [...]
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This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.