Arkham’s Eyrie

Run as root:

modprobe gspca_pac207

Enjoy

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Tags: archlinux, trust, webcam

Today I’ve started to write some PKGBUILDs for the linux distribution that I use, Archlinux: a PKGBUILD is a small script that works with the makepkg utility. It automatically downloads the source of the program, verifies the md5, configures and compiles it creating a new package, ready to be installed with pacman. It looks like gentoo’s emerge. It’s cool Anyway, at the moment I am maintaining four packages and I am kinda enjoying myself. Let’s see if it will last

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SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch videos and listen to radio on the Internet. To install it:

$ yaourt -S sopcast

Now go to myp2p.eu and find a sopcast link for the event you want to watch.

$ SOPLINK=sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/48609
$ /usr/bin/sp-sc $SOPLINK 3908 8908 > /dev/null &
$ mplayer http://127.0.0.1:8908/tv.asf

Ta da!

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There are so many applications that depend on qt in my system (among others skype, vlc, opera, picard and virtualbox) that I decided to remove all the statically-compiled-against packages and just install the library and normal packages; this gave me also the chance to find a better way to integrate qt apps in a gnome-based desktop environment.

The problems that I noticed were that all the fonts looked really tiny and the overall look of the application was kinda poor, so I took a look at the binaries included in the qt package:

arkham ~  $  pacman -Ql qt | grep bin
qt /usr/bin/
qt /usr/bin/assistant
qt /usr/bin/assistant_adp
qt /usr/bin/designer
qt /usr/bin/linguist
qt /usr/bin/lrelease
qt /usr/bin/lupdate
qt /usr/bin/moc
qt /usr/bin/pixeltool
qt /usr/bin/qcollectiongenerator
qt /usr/bin/qdbus
qt /usr/bin/qdbuscpp2xml
qt /usr/bin/qdbusviewer
qt /usr/bin/qdbusxml2cpp
qt /usr/bin/qhelpconverter
qt /usr/bin/qhelpgenerator
qt /usr/bin/qmake
qt /usr/bin/qt3to4
qt /usr/bin/qtconfig
qt /usr/bin/rcc
qt /usr/bin/uic
qt /usr/bin/uic3

I tried with qtconfig and it solved the fonts problem, but the default styles still looked really bad; luckily, I found a project called QGtkStyle, that lets you use a gtk-rendered qt style, thus giving a native appearence for qt apps running on gnome. To install it, make sure to have qt4.4 and gtk2 installed correctly, then:

svn co "svn://labs.trolltech.com/svn/styles/gtkstyle"
cd gtkstyle/
qmake && make
sudo make install

or

yaourt -S qgtkstyle-svn

Now, from the qtconfig menu you can choose a new style called GTK, and I can assure you that this one looks really nice. Have fun

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Tags: archlinux, gnome, howto, qt

Yes, it’s broken.

arkham ~  $  ettercap-gtk 
ettercap-gtk: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ABS Solution:

mkdir -p ~/builds

cp -r /var/abs/extra/ettercap-gtk ~/builds

cd ~/builds/ettercap-gtk

makepkg -c

pacman -U ettercap-gtk-NG_0.7.3-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

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