BloGTK Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Dependency Fix: gtkhtml2 (python-gtkhtml2)

"BloGTK is a weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from GNOME without the need for a separate browser window. BloGTK allows you to connect with many weblog systems such as Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, and more. BloGTK is written using Python and PyGTK, and is designed to be fast and simple to use." - [BloGTK]

The new Ubuntu LTS (Lucid Lynx) release had removed the dependency python-gtkhtml2 which is required by BloGTK.  You may track the bug #538773 [here].

The error message when starting the application BloGTK with this missing package is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/blogtk", line 14, in <module>
    import gtkhtml2
ImportError: No module named gtkhtml2

I resolved the dependency issue by installing the package python-gtkhtml2 from the Debian Testing Package Repository located [here].  This has resolved all issues and errors allowing BloGTK to run as expected.

The Debian Stable package will not install as it requires << python-2.6.  python-gtkhtml2 has been removed from Debian Experimental all together.

Cheers!

spamd line 2588 - Spamassassin 3.3

Just a quick note for a post.  When updating spamassassin binaries from source or a pre-compiled package, you need to run the command:

sa-update -D

The previous major version did not require this.  I am not complaining!  I broke a teer and smiled when I had seen the Apache organization had a spamassassin update.

279 Days

Their has been an un-destroyable kernal tainted process on this server for longer than 3 months eating up CPU time that has been waiting to see sunshine and fresh air. This morning I made the decision to take it down for maintenance and updates around 4 AM CST6CDT after an up-time of 279 days 22 hours and 5 minutes, and an outage of about a half an hour.

I hope to break that record this time around. I have had home systems up well over a year, though obviouse they were not complex software systems.

See you in about a year?

Rsync for Windows

My internet connectivity is limited at the moment.  I looked into making an incremental backup of my web data on my Windows Netbook when I visit an area with high speed Internet.

I normally have a Bash script using rsync on hamper, my home server which pulls increments daily.  When looking for Rsync for Windows, I found a Cygwin executable that does not require a Cygwin installation.  All that is needed are two libraries, in which you should put these dll's in your Windows system folder - and the executable to be placed where appropriate.

This site contains information on running the Rsync daemon as a service in Windows.  This site is also the source of: rsync.zip (hosted here).

Lifetype 1.2.10 Patch for root Blog URL Paging Bug

Lifetype 1.2.10 security release was made public just a couple hours ago.  Paging on the URL root is broken in the packages provided on Lifetype's website.

I notified the developer and he very quickly had a patch available.  This patch is only relevant if you installed the update, or full installation within a few hours of initial public release.

To patch Lifetype, change the directory to your Blog document root and issue the command "patch -p0 < ./lifetype-1.2.10-paging-patch".

--- class/net/linkformatmatcher.class.php    2010-01-27 13:12:51 UTC (rev 6969)
+++ class/net/linkformatmatcher.class.php    2010-01-27 22:59:06 UTC (rev 6970)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
             foreach( $this->_formats as $key => $format ) {
                 $lp = new LinkParser( $format );
                 $params = $lp->parseLink( $this->_request );
-                if( $params ) {
+                if( $params !== false ) {
                     // return the key assigned to the format that matched
                     $this->_params = $params;
                     return $key;