Archive for February, 2007

After installing linux, you can add Chinese language support by installing these rpms:

kde-i18n-Chinese
ttfonts-zh_CN

For Japanese, the files are:

kde-i18n-Japanese
ttfonts-ja

The user will need to log out and back in for them to be available.

Posted by maryh on February 13, 2007 at 4:23 pm under Language.
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I got a new altera license and installed in on the new file server. Should now change the LM_LICENSE_FILE to 27000@new_file_server

I also could comment out the mgcld daemon line because there were no feature codes in the new license that use that daemon. In previous versions, that was there to check out the license for Modelsim. But now, that license is checked out using the Mentor Graphics license server which is on a different machine.

Posted by maryh on February 13, 2007 at 2:49 pm under Licensing, Server, Software.
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The flash plugin (flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm) can simply be installed as an rpm as usual. The installation also makes a link in the mozilla plugins directory (for now, /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.7/plugins) to the libflashplayer.so (for now, /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so).

The java rpm (jre-6-linux-i586.rpm) installs to /usr/java/jre1.6.0/ which is fine, but it never makes a link from its plugin to the mozilla plugins directory. So mozilla never knows it’s installed. To fix this, do:

cd /usr/lib/mozilla-seamonkey-1.0.7/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so

Now mozilla will know where to find the java plugin. We’ll probably have another problem when mozilla gets upgraded to a new version, but I’ll look into a way of automating this.

Posted by maryh on February 7, 2007 at 10:35 am under Installation, Software.
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