Thursday, December 29, 2005

Freaking Amazing!! Apt for Suse

Ahhhh.... finally!!!
Apt.. no more worrying about dependancies... peace on earth!
Read This and Weep for Joy!
Wiki: Installing apt4suse
Once thats done, its a simple
apt-cache search [appName]
to find what you want. Once you do then:
apt-get install [appName]
will install it and it's dependancies for you..

Easy!

Mp3s with XMMS in Suse..

SUSE seems to have left out mp3 support with Suse 10. AmaroK plays mp3s fine but... Im more used to the WinAmp look..
So..
I installed Beep Media Player. Dont ask why..
Followed instructions from here: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=21581
And installed the bmp-plugins-mad: Beep Media Player Plug-Ins from here: http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/93_i386.html

Voila! Baby you can sleep while I drive!!!!

Sunday, December 4, 2005

Forcing a drive to unmount...

If umount /mnt/[driveName] says that device is busy then it means that some process is still accesing the drive..

To check what process is accessing the drive, try
fuser -v /mnt/[driveName]..
In my case, i got

Sorceress:/windows # fuser -v /windows/audio/

USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/windows/audio/ wraith 5854 f.... konqueror
root kernel mount /windows/audio


So all i do is kill the konqueror process with a
Kill 5854
and the device umounts successfully

Great source for understanding the /etc/fstab file that has the filesystem configuration information: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html