RPM and DEB packages are both containers for other files. An RPM is some sort of cpio archive. On the other hand, a DEB file is a pure ar archive. So, it should be possible to unpack their contents using standard archiving tools, regardless of your distribution’s package format. Under normal conditions, you should use…
After many years of failure, countless hours of digging into the World Wide Web for information, numerous failed attempts due to lack of knowledge to modify the v0.6 E3 driver for USB scanners (Viceo backend) and add support for libusb, yesterday I was sent a patch, which contained the Viceo backend for SANE with libusb…
Things change rapidly in the Open-Source Software scene and, consequently, all support documentation, guides, tutorials etc need to be adapted to the new features of the software as well. I have started going through all the howto articles I’ve written about Linux during the last 3 years and perform regular document maintenance tasks, like checking…
A while ago, I had written about some problems I had encountered while trying to send notification messages with libnotify to the logged-in users’ desktops from a cronjob. Although I haven’t made any progress with that issue, I just noticed a very useful comment under that post, submitted by Aleksei. According to the tip, sudo…