When I try to execute something legitimate – it works, like returns me a list of available tags. But when I do something that should return error, like it returns me NULL, but not message fatal: could not create work tree dir ”.: No such file or directory that I would see in the console. How can I…
Prevent accidental history editing in bash
I recently switched from tcsh to bash, and one thing that keeps tripping me up is how bash handles history. I regularly bring up a previous history command and begin to edit it, but realize I need to run a different command first. In bash, this edits the original command, and I cannot see what I originally ty…
Compile libxml2 get “error: storage size of ‘hints’ isn’t known”
I download libxml2 2.9.4 in here, when i ./configure; make, i get following error: the full output is here here is my environment: I try version 2.9.2 and 2.9.3, i get same error, how to compile libxml2 success? Answer I find the solution: in nanohttp.c, the error line: so i can disable ipv6 to don’t co…
Need to automate SSH commands to router
I need to find a way to automate ssh commands to my router. My goal is to make the router restart whenever I run the script from my Java program. I’m having some issues though. First of all, this is the sequence of output I get from my router’s ssh: First I do: which returns: I enter the password,…
how to use git with a package I am distributing
I have been using git for some time now and I feel I have a good handle on it. I did however, build my first small program as a distribution (something with ./configure make and make install) and I want to put it up on github but I am not sure how to exactly go about tracking it. Should I,
Is there a way to automatically link all libraries an OpenGL program needs, without explicitly writing their flags on compile?
For an entry level program, I’m currently compiling with g++ manip.c -o manip -lglfw3 -lX11 -lXxf86vm -lXrandr -lpthread -ldl -lXinerama -lXcursor -lGLEW It was a very time-consuming process of trial and error figuring out which flags were necessary, googling the ‘undefined references to’, c…
Error: ‘GL/glfw3.h: No such file or directory’ when compiling C++ programs using OpenGL on Linux
I receive the error message when I try to compile the example program given in the tutorial here, section ‘Opening a window’. I have installed all the libraries they referred to in the ‘Building on Linux’ section. (My distribution is Ubuntu 16.04.) I have also successfully run as I fou…
Node “No such file or directory” with certain packages
I installed two packages via npm: alsatian@1.0.0-alpha.7 gulp@3.9.1 As I am using nvm to manage my node versions, the CLI files for the two packages were installed at the following paths: /home/james/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/alsatian/cli/alsatian-cli.js /home/james/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/gulp/bin/…
ld cannot recognize the options
I’am reading this Tuto, and I’am trying to link the application using this command: ld test.o –o test.bin, the linker doesn’t recognize the -o option : Using ld -help the option -o exist but i don’t understand why I’am getting this problem. This is the linker version. Answer My g…
Quick remote logging system?
I want to be about to quickly insert some logging into some testing using either (Linux) command line or Python. I don’t want to do anything system wide (e.g. re-configuring syslogd). I’ve done something like this before by doing: wget URL/logme?im=module_name&msg=hello_world And then just par…