Today I’m stuck at home, since there are no buses and the university is closed due to inclement weather. In these pictures you can see how much snow it came in one night! 😯
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LaTeX and kile on openSUSE 11.2
Kile, the KDE LaTeX editor, does not pull texlive as dependency in openSUSE 11.2. To have a fully working installation, simply install the texlive-latex package. You can do that very quickly typing the following command in a root terminal: zypper in texlive-latex and answering “yes” to proceed.
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OpenFOAM 1.6.x on openSUSE 11.2 and VTK reader
Installing OpenFOAM® on openSUSE 11.2 is very easy, and can be done using, at least in part, the system tools, to take advantage of the new compiler. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download the OpenFOAM sources from the GIT repository git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git Download the third party packages from the OpenCFD website Extract the third party packages corresponding to your architecture in the ~/OpenFOAM directory Rename the ThirdParty-1.6 into ThirdParty-1.6.x Remove the following directories…
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Installing Skype on openSUSE 11.2 – 64 bit
Skype is provided pre-packaged for openSUSE for 32 bit systems. However the RPM can be used without difficulty also on 64 bit systems, since openSUSE transparently manages bi-architecture packages. Unfortunately the 32 bit RPM does not install all the dependencies it needs to work correctly, and you have to fix them by hand as follows: Install the skype rpm by typing in a root terminal: rpm -Uvh skype-2.1.0.47-suse.i586.rpm Open YaST software installer Search and select the following packages xorg-x11-libXv-32bit libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit Accept the additional dependencies proposed by the installer and proceed with the installation At this point, you should be able to run skype without any difficulty. Enjoy
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Installing dropbox on openSUSE 11.2 with KDE
This is the first of a series of posts to help openSUSE users that started to use KDE 4, or are new to Linux. Why KDE? Well, I tried it just to see how it is, I went back to GNOME, and I was missing KDE already after a few hours, and only after two weeks of using it. KDE 4 is not finished yet: some part of the migration process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is still going on, for example in the PIM (Personal Information Management) department, but the environment is fresh, clean, extremely fast and responsive even with desktop effects enabled. In other words, I think…
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openSUSE 11.2 is out
The lastest version of openSUSE has just been released today. The list of updated packages can be found on DistroWatch. The release candidates of this release were extremely promising, and hopefully will be able to make me forget the bad experience had with openSUSE 11.1. I’ll try it during the next weekend, so, stay tuned In the meanwhile, you can get it yourself from the openSUSE software portal. Note: Users with nVidia cards can find the packaged drivers using this repository ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.2/ Enjoy 😀
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Broken laptop. Great DELL service!
Last week my DELL® XPS M1330 broke: all of a sudden I could only see a white screen with vertical lines, and soon after only a grey screen, without any boot activity. The problem was that the nVidia 8400M GS video card broke. I bought this laptop in Italy, and I have a 3 years on-site warranty which ensures the system is repaired within five days, but I thought it would have taken longer to repair it, since I’m not in Italy but in US. Well, I was wrong! I contacted DELL technical support on Wednesday evening, and after about 50 minutes of tests the problem was diagnosed and the…
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Ekee packages for openSUSE
Ekee is a graphical LaTeX equation editor that allows the typeset equations to be dragged and dropped to OpenOffice.org or saved as high quality images to be used in other word processors and presentation softwares. Packages for openSUSE 11.1 are available in my home repository on the openSUSE buildservice and soon they should be included in the science repository too. Enjoy 🙂
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Writing from openSUSE 11.2 milestone 8
OpenSUSE 11.2 milestone 8, the last beta version of the 11.2 development cycle, has been released today. I gave a try to the KDE live CD., from which I am writing. The system booted quickly to be a live CD, and loaded the KDE 4.3 desktop without any trouble, showing the very good looking environment showed below. KDE 4.3 is rich of widgets that can be used to make your desktop richer in functionality and more pleasurable to look and see. You can, for example, add notes, a dictionary, weather forecasts, international clock and many other widgets, like unit converter, calculator, system monitors, download manager and so on. You can…
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Kinetic theory and Washington DC pictures
I have recently been at a very interesting and stimulating workshop on the kinetic description of multiscale phenomena, held at the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM), University of Maryland, College Park, where I gave a talk about quadrature-based moment methods for gas-particle flows. College Park is not far from Washington DC. The time was limited, so I could visit only the National Gallery of Art, and look around from the car, but it was very nice! Some random pictures I took at the museum and around can be seen here.