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Perl – How to change @INC to include non-standard path

psybermonkey — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:48:51 +0800

Have been playing around with local::lib and bootstrap a few directories. After switching a few local::lib directories, I tend to forget which cpan module is installed in which local::lib directory and this make perl don’t know where to find the cpan module. This is how to set the environment variable @INC so that perl can ...

Perl – How to list installed modules

psybermonkey — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:28:24 +0800

A note for myself. This is how to list out what perl modules are installed.Way 1 :perl -MFile::Find=find -MFile::Spec::Functi ons -Tlwe 'find { wanted => sub { print canonpath $_ if /\.pm\z/ }, no_chdir => 1 }, @INC'Way 2 :perldoc perllocal*** these are all taken from “http://perldo c.perl.org/perlmodli b.html”

Perl – How to install perl module without root or super user

psybermonkey — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:49:25 +0800

By default, perl modules installed through cpanX (cpanm, cpanp & cpan) utilities are install into system wide perl directory. Although this will make the module available through out all users on this box, it also means if there’s a problem with particular module, it affects all users. Some other problem hit me as well :Problem ...

Perl – How to install CPAN module, the easier way

psybermonkey — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:32:00 +0800

Following IronMan Challenge posts not only for the sake of seeing What Color of Hair & Shirt ends up with Matt but the posts have been much enlightening. Recently in IronMan Challenge, there’s been much talk about one of Miyagawa’s project, App::cpanminus. Basically, cpanminus is a tool to install perl module from CPAN, without the ...

FreeBSD – Make ports not to include X11 or GUI related library

psybermonkey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:12:54 +0800

FreeBSD is an excellent operating system, be it on a Desktop (PC-BSD) or Server. Its stability and flexibility was never an issue, nor even software availability (21135 ports currently available to deploy). Most of the time, ports will install the necessary dependencies to fulfill its requirement. But certain ports installs the X11 (X window system) ...

FreeBSD – Make ports not to include X11 or GUI related library

psybermonkey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:12:54 +0800

FreeBSD – How to manage ports in FreeBSD using portmanager

psybermonkey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:21:47 +0800

There are various way of managing ports, using utilities. The usual “cd /usr/ports/; make; make install; make clean“, portmaster, portupgrade and others. Today, this post will brief on how to use portmanager to install, upgrade and delete ports.Using portmanager to manage ports have a few advantage :portmanager scans for what dependencies …

FreeBSD – How to manage ports in FreeBSD using portmanager

psybermonkey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:21:47 +0800

OSX – How to arrange Menu Bar icons

psybermonkey — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:19:58 +0800

When too many icon clogging on the Menu Bar, re-arrange them might look better. The shortcut key to arrange the icons is :Cmd + mouse left clickon an icon then start arranging them. Adios !!!

OSX – How to arrange Menu Bar icons

psybermonkey — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:19:58 +0800

When too many icon clogging on the Menu Bar, re-arrange them might look better. The shortcut key to arrange the icons is :Cmd + mouse left clickon an icon then start arranging them. Adios !!!

FreeBSD – How to setup ports using wget to download

psybermonkey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:44 +0800

The default download program for ports is using fetch. fetch is fine but my personal preference is wget. wget uses 1 connection to download, unlike my previous post that mentioned “Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections“.But wget gives extra bell and whistle like date/time of the download, log to file, continue from a partially downloaded ...

FreeBSD – How to setup ports using wget to download

psybermonkey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:44 +0800

FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation

psybermonkey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:52:51 +0800

Ports gets it’s sources from internet. If the sources is big or there are multiple tens of sources, the tendency to fail in the mid of the ports installation increases.Scenario 1:Bumpy internet broadband internet connection, like mine, will disconnect halfway when downloading big files (> 10 MB)Scenario 2:Large ports that depends on tens if not ...

FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation

psybermonkey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:52:51 +0800

FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers

psybermonkey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:46:34 +0800

Ports randomly gets it’s source server list from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.si tes.mk, as defined by the port maintainer. But the top 1st choice of the list may not be the one physically near to us and thus the download speed is much desirable. Most of the time compiling ports doesn’t necessary takes a long time (like my 3 ...

FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers

psybermonkey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:46:34 +0800

Gimp – How to convert background of logo or picture into tran …

psybermonkey — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:58:49 +0800

Gimp stands for “GNU Image Manipulation Program“, which is an open source image editing problem. It’s capability often compare to professional software but fortunately, Gimp acceptance as Pro image editing software is getting better. Even so, Gimp is still popular among beginner up to hobbyist user.Gimp’s available on multiple platform and since it is …

Gimp – How to convert background of logo or picture into tran …

psybermonkey — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:58:49 +0800

FreeBSD – Compilation errors on port KDE4 in FreeBSD 8.0

psybermonkey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:40:43 +0800

While adding GUI Desktop environment into my development box, an error encountered when compiling KDE4, the stable and nice looking Desktop environment. Compiling KDE4 can take quite some time as it depends on few hundred other ports. Alternatively, you can install KDE4 from the packages by using the command :pkg_add -r kde4But installing programs using ...

FreeBSD – Compilation errors on port KDE4 in FreeBSD 8.0

psybermonkey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:40:43 +0800