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Debian and ant: No supported regular expression matcher found

Another one of those “why is this thing not working in Debian!” problem.
The answer is:
apt-get install ant-optional
Why or why is ant not fully installed with the ant package?
Urgh!

MAMP 1.7 and DBD::mysql

This is a brief post on how to get Perl’s DBD::mysql working with MAMP 1.7 on Mac OS X Leopard. The instructions for now, are quite concise.

I have found that using CPAN does not seem to work to install DBD::mysql when you only have MAMP installed. The CPAN commands:

perl -MCPAN -eshell
install DBD::mysql

This I think […]

My Travel Map


Vmware on Debian 4.0 (Etch) Kernel 2.6.18-3

Having problems compiling the vmmon kernel module on Debian 4.0 (Etch) using the 2.6.18-3 kernel?
Getting an error like:
The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does not match
your running kernel (version 2.6.18-3-amd64). Even if the module were to
compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
To fix this you need to copy the […]

Stuff and Things

My first post on this shiny new Orablog weblog. Hopefully there will be the occasional article about stuff and things.


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