Archive for April, 2010
ch0wned – Adding Open Office 3.x and Java on EL4 for X86_64 in your homedir
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access. Intro Continuing my install series, here’s how you get OpenOffice 3 and Java w/ the Browser plugin working out of your homedirectory on an old linux install (EL4) without root access. I assume you already have a working [...]
ch0wned – Building your own Thunderbird 3 on EL4 for X86_64 in your homedir
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access. Intro Having just gone through my guide on installing Firefox now you’re ready to do basically the same thing for Thunderbird. This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script [...]
ch0wned – Building your own Firefox on EL4 for X86_64 in your homedir
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access. Intro So you want Firefox 3.new on your EL4 workstation and don’t have root access? Worse off it’s an x86_64 machine? This is not for the faint of heart, and you will run into some snags, but hopefully [...]
ch0wned – Building Amarok 1.4.10 in $HOME on Redhat EL4/EL5
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access. Intro All I wanted to do was play Internet radio via a SOCKS proxy. Is that too much to ask for on Redhat EL4? Apparently so. So after many hours of frustration, here is how you get Amarok [...]
ch0wned – Installing TaskCoach and all its depenencies in $HOME for EL4/EL5
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access. Installing TaskCoach and its dependencies in $HOME for EL4/EL5 This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp. Update: 2/1/2011 – Added EL5 . Irony : Spending a [...]