Thursday, February 26, 2009

please mount the unreal tournament play disc cdrom - ut2004 on ubuntu fix

I was trying to install ut2004 on ubuntu and kept getting the message:
"please mount the unreal tournament play disc cdrom"

I think because ubuntu auto-mounts volumes, it mounts them in multiple places, somehow confusing the installer. The answer is to umount it... then manually mount it below as shown.

sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2
umount /media/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
export SETUP_CDROM=/media/cdrom
/media/cdrom/linux-installer.sh
... let it install ...
umount -f /media/cdrom

Note: installing libgtk1.2 is just to have a gui installer instead of console/ascii looking installer

it worked for me.

linux bash xargs cut convert usage

Convert all PSDs to PNGs:
ls *.psd | cut -d . -f 1 | xargs -L1 -i convert {}.psd {}.png

Thursday, February 12, 2009

view rpm binary content

rpm -qpl [package.rpm]

geoip lookup

opensuse 10.3 linux rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/tools/openSUSE_10.3/i586/


data available from:
http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry
http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

echo tabs in bash

The -e turns uses escaped characters like \t \n \r instead of treating them literally which is default.
echo -e "FIRSTNAME\tLASTNAME\tOCCUPATION"