Software Development

• File and folder comparison and merging: meld diff viewer (package: meld)
  • copying to NTFS does not work: in dirdiff.py and misc.py replace shutil.copy2(src, dst) with

    shutil.copyfile(src, dst)
    
    					
    
    					try:
    
    					
    
    					shutil.copystat(src, dst)
    
    					
    
    					except Exception:
    
    					
    
    					dummy = 1 # ignore, but statement is needed

  • Connection to FTP with curlftpfs: the gutsy version of libcurl (7.16.4) crashes, when deleting a file. You have to download curl (7.19.2) and build it. Then soft-link /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4.1.1 to /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3 and /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4, otherwise curlftpfs will still use the old version.
  • Connection to FTP with curlftpfs: when copying files to the server, it sets different permissions (0770) than pure FTP with e.g. gnome-commander (0666). This might be a problem - at least it is for my home page.
• File browser: gnome-commander (but doesn't handle packed files)
• File browser: mucommander (Java, http://www.mucommander.com/)

Wine

Microsoft Office 2000

• Copy tahoma.ttf and tahomadb.ttf to wine's c:/windows/fonts
• Run "wine iexplore http://www.winehq.org" to get an Internet explorer replacement. Otherwise you get error messages during installation of Office, which you can ignore
• Install Office

Eclipse

• Turn off assistive technologies or Eclipse will exit on dialog exits: System -> Preferences -> Assistive Technologies -> Untick first checkbox
• start with "env GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 /opt/eclipse/eclipse" or file dialogs may not work