A brief and hopefully to the point on getting up and running with OpenGL in an Ubuntu Linux environment. For setting up OpenGL in Windows / Visual Studio environments, please see this post. My choice of integrated development environment for C++ development for this example is Netbeans 7.3. Continue reading
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Getting started with the Boost libraries in Cygwin
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This post assumes that the boost libraries have been downloaded and extracted to the directory of your choice. See this previous posting for more details on how to download and extract the Boost libraries.
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Getting started with the Boost libraries in Ubuntu Linux
1. Install the Boost libraries from the command line
First try the following
$ sudo apt-get install libboost*
You may get an error message similar to the following, like I did:
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Getting started with Qt in Ubuntu Linux
1. Obtain QT4
Run these from the command line:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev qt4-qmake cmake r-base-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
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Problems Accessing Linux Folders and Servers from Windows
A short posting on dealing with accessing shared directories from remote Windows machines. When trying to access a shared folder stored on a Linux server from (say) a remote Windows XP machine you may have come across the following error message in much the same way as I did:
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How to Set up a Subversion (SVN) Server in Linux
This guide details the steps taken to create a proper SVN server, as opposed to using a not-recommended network share, as means of creating and accessing repositories. Continue reading
Linux Snippets
Some assorted odds and ends in no particular order to save me re-Googling this kind of stuff…
Convert png into jpg
$ convert file.png file.jpg
To open KDE Advanced Text Editor (kate) with root priviliges:
$ kdesu kate
… and enter root password when prompted.
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