Author: erol

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Compile and install kfilebox 0.4.10 on Debian Jessie

If you using Dropbox client and you would like full system tray integration unfortunately you can not install a package that will work without issues with latest versions of dropbox client.

Solution is to download, compile and install kfilebox from source, but since kfilebox is unmaintained for long time I found this fixed version on github page: https://github.com/gtgt/kfilebox. Continue reading “Compile and install kfilebox 0.4.10 on Debian Jessie”

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Fix failed to fetch Google Chrome packages under Debian

Google decided to drop 32bit support for Chrome lately my Debian Jessie is giving me following errors when doing apt-get update

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

To fix the issue you need to edit following file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list and change the line:

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

to

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Save your file and do normal apt-get update.

It seems that the change in google-chrome.list gets overwritten somehow, so I recommend you to set read only permissions on the file with:

chmod 444 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

Remember just next time if you need to modify this file to add write permissions back.

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Configure LCDd.conf for LC16M VFD LCD 16×2 screen

I wanted to reinstall my old XBMCuntu distro with new version from kodi.tv and I have downloaded latest available iso file from here.

Since my Silverstone LC16M case has 16×2 VFD display it is normal that I want to use it together with all the multimedia keys. In order to get them working kernel module imon must be loaded.

To support LCD in Kodi you will need addon XBMC LCDproc but before installing the plugin you need to have lcdproc package installed and configured. Continue reading “Configure LCDd.conf for LC16M VFD LCD 16×2 screen”