+ 6 - 6 | § ¶luvcview Debian Package
luvcview is a camera viewer for UVC driver based webcams
I've packaged a .deb for it which can be fetched from:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=luvcview
Keywords: luvcview,Debian,deb,package
+ 5 - 6 | § ¶knetstats for Debian Etch/Sid
Debian is a great OS Distribution. It itself is a great community. But there are times when Debian is very frustrating also. Like many of the packages go on a very slow pace.
Truly speaking, there isn't much a person can ask the Debian community given the amount of contribution it makes.
I was looking for knetstats package but couldn't find much help. The ITP against knetstats is more than 100 days but still not entered into Debian. And on the knetstats page, the debian package mentioned is outdated.
This was a great opportunity for me to try out Debian packaging. I had done read the guides earlier but never paid much attention to building a package.
So hence here is knetstats 1.6.1 for Debian Etch/Sid. I've tested it installing it onto another machine and it works without any problems. There are some lintian warnings but they are safe to ignore. I'll fix those soon.
rrs@geeKISSexy:/var/tmp/knetstat $ lintian knetstats_1.6.1-1_i386.deb
W: knetstats: binary-without-manpage knetstats
W: knetstats: menu-item-needs-tag-has-unknown-value kde /usr/share/menu/knetstats:2
W: knetstats: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/knetstats /usr/lib:/usr/share/qt3/lib
Here's the link to the package. Please mail me if you encounter any problems or if it "Just Works"
Keywords: knetstats,Debian,Etch,Sid
+ 4 - 7 | § ¶root-tail on KDE desktop
For many who don't know, root-tail is a small utility which can write to your Desktop's Screen (Often called the root window). It is mainly used to display critical system messages.
I've been a root-tail fan for long. It like the idea of displaying syslog messages on my desktop. It almost fixes 50% of my problems.
The problem with KDE is that it drwas its own Desktop image on top of the root window because of which you can't see the messages drawn by root-tail. But KDE is something I'm an addict of and can't live without. But recently I realised that KDE already had the framework in place for applications like root-tail.
The Option "Allow programs in desktop window" is the option that needs to be selected. And bingo, after that root-tail "Just Works".
Keywords: root-tail,kde,root-window