From the monthly archives: June 2011

Setting up Android development environment on a Linux host

By On 23 June 2011 · 4 Comments

Using a PC with FC-15 Linux…

Install eclipse.

Follow all steps on the android development web page to install the Adroid SDK and ADT plugin for eclipse.

If you ever need access to Android’s sources you will need git and a tool named ‘repo’ written by google, which works on top of git. The […]

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Desktop points to user’s home folder (~) in Fedora

By On 8 June 2011 · Leave a Comment

Usually this problem means that the var XDG_DESKTOP_DIR got somehow set to $HOME instead of “$HOME/Desktop”…

FIX: Edit the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and fix it:
   XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”

… typically this file should look like this:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=”$HOME/Download”
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=”$HOME/Templates”
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=”$HOME/Public”
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=”$HOME/Documents”
XDG_MUSIC_DIR=”$HOME/Music”
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=”$HOME/Pictures”
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=”$HOME/Videos”

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How to write an ISO image with XCDRoast…

By On 6 June 2011 · 1 Comment

It may sound like a dumb question, since X-CD-Roast is a GUI tool for writing files and images, but it’s logic is so user-unfriendly and unnatural that in reality it’s not at all simple to create a CD or DVD from ISO using this app.

Ok, so how do you write an ISO image […]

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Checking ‘dynamic’ conditions in Makefile’s

By On 2 June 2011 · 1 Comment

How can you test ‘dynamic’ conditions in a gnu Makefile?

The net is full of GNU-Makefile advise explaining how to define variables and then later use them at compile time to run different commands or different targets. This is all very useful but often time you want to run a command and test it’s result […]

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