Ubuntu 12.10 on paapereira.xyz

Google Play Music

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:13:00 +0100

Google Play Music is finally available in Portugal!

I will show how to set up upload your music in Ubuntu using the Google Music Manager.

Installing Google Play Music Manager in Ubuntu

1wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | \
2	sudo apt-key add -
3sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/ stable \
4	main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
5sudo apt-get update
6sudo apt-get install google-musicmanager-beta

I had trouble with the version installed via ppa, it was always crashing after opening up. I found a working version here.

Moving your /home partition to a new disk

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:00 +0100

A couple of weeks ago my hard drive started to fail. The boot time started degrading and a scan to the /home partition would run in every boot. Also sometimes it would return i/o errors.

A look at the disk’s SMART data confirmed a number of bad sectors.

So I bought a new disk and migrated my /home partition.

The setup

I have a SSD drive with my root (/) partition and a HDD drive with my /home partition. I bought a new HDD drive to replace the old one and connected both at the same time for the migration process.

Upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:41:00 +0000

The current Ubuntu version, 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, was released passed October, and I’ve been running it since that time.

I hadn’t made a direct upgrade at quite some time. Normally I use the alternate iso (see my 11.10 upgrade post, but this time I chose to upgrade directly through Updater Manager from my 12.04 installation.

Backup

Your first step should always be backing up your files.

You can use an external drive, CDs or DVD, offline locations (like rsync.net), Dropbox… Take your pick, but do it. Really, you should.

Install Spotify in Ubuntu

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:49:00 +0000

Spotify is finally available in Portugal!

Here’s how you install the preview build of Spotify for Linux in Ubuntu.

Installation

Add the following into your Software Sources:

1deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

Add Spotify public key into your trusted software provider keys;

1sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59

Update apt-get

1sudo apt-get update

Install Spotify

1sudo apt-get install spotify-client

Install a specific package version

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:11:00 +0000

Yesterday, after a partial upgrade in my Ubuntu 12.10 installation, git was uninstalled.

After the upgrade I tried to re-install it and got the following error:

1sudo apt-get install git

 1Reading package lists... Done
 2Building dependency tree 
 3Reading state information... Done
 4Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
 5requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
 6distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
 7or been moved out of Incoming.
 8The following information may help to resolve the situation:
 9The following packages have unmet dependencies:
10**git : Depends: git-man (< 1:1.8.0.3-.) but 1:1.8.1.1-1~ppa0~quantal2 is to be installed**
11E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Basically git depended on git-man version 1.8.0.3, but the APT package handling utility was trying to install the newer version 1.8.1.1.