Compile Realtek rtl8812AU/8821AU USB WiFi driver on Debian Jessie

Install the driver first from github:

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
sudo cp -R . /usr/src/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-1.0
sudo dkms add -m rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux -v 1.0
sudo dkms build -m rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux -v 1.0
sudo dkms install -m rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux -v 1.0

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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”

Compiling rtorrent from source on Ubuntu Maverick

Download and compile libtorrent

sudo wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz
sudo tar zxfv libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz
cd libtorrent-0.12.6
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Download and compile xmlrpc-c

sudo svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c
cd xmlrpc-c/
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Download and compile rtorrent

sudo wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz
sudo tar zxfv rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz
cd rtorrent-0.8.6
sudo ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
sudo make
sudo make install