This first post describes the first installation of Ubuntu server 18.04 LTS on my EliteBook 8570p. More precisely, it describes how to deal with UEFI installation that (if not well handled) can lead to a BootDevice not found error on first attempt to startup the server after installation.
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Removing all kernel headers and images from my computer: I did it!!!
This post could be subtitled: because I only have half a brain. But fortunately first, it was not my computer but my son’s computer (and I don’t give a s*** to his computer which mainly contains video games); second, using half a sleepless night, I finally succeded to fix this problem.
Support USB 1/2 dans VirtualBoxUSB 1&2 support in VirtualBox
Santa Claus offered me a garmin device (Garmin Edge Touring) for Xmas, which is a good idea for my next mountain bike tours but is also a pain in the ass for linux users. Actually, Garmin has lately switched from a browser plugin (garmin connector) which was available for linux users (at this page or …
Ubuntu: lire un DVD avec encryptage CSSUbuntu: read a DVD with CSS encryption
Sous une distribution Kubuntu fraîchement installée, le message d’erreur suivant apparaît au lancement d’un DVD avec vlc libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. ************************************************ ** ** ** No css library available. See ** ** /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/README.css ** ** for more information. ** ** ** ************************************************ libdvdnav: DVD Title:… On a freshly installed Kubuntu distribution, I had the …
Installer le package R ‘rmr2’ (élément de RHadoop) sans HadoopInstalling R package ‘rmr2’ (part of RHadoop) without Hadoop
For pedagogical purposes, I needed to install rmr2, which is an R package designed to perform mapreduce code in R. This package is part of the RHadoop project which aims at allowing users to manage and analyze data with Hadoop in R. I followed two strategies: the first one (not shown in this tutorial) consisted …
Installer les packages R pour le cours “Getting and Cleaning Data” (coursera)Install R packages for the course “Getting and Cleaning Data” (coursera)
This post explains how to install all (or at least most of) the R packages described in the MOOC “Getting and Cleaning Data” offered by Johns Hopkins University on the MOOC coursera if you’re using Ubuntu. Moreover, it gives pratical advices for staying up-to-date with your R installation on this OS. R installation: CRAN repository …
Installer une carte graphique AMD sur ubuntu 12.04 LTS
La carte graphique AMD n’est supportée qu’au travers des pilotes propriétaires. Venue au secours de Victor P pour l’aider à retrouver le plein contrôle de sa machine, je décris ici les principales étapes permettant d’installer Ubuntu 12.04 LTS sur un HP Envy.
Erreur lors de l’installation du package ‘rgl’ sur Ubuntu et R 3.0.0Error while installing package ‘rgl’ on Ubuntu and R v3.0.0
Trying to install from inside R (version 3.0.0) the package rgl, I got the following error: configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’ * removing ‘/home/nathalie/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/rgl’ This problem is fixed by installing the dependencies in a terminal: sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl and installing agina the package rgl: …
Freebox TV avec Ubuntu et VLCFreebox TV with Ubuntu and VLC
Pour regarder la télévision sur votre ordinateur à partir de votre Freebox, c’est très simple : installer le programme vlc ; créer un fichier texte tv.m3u contenant la ligne suivante : http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u lancer ce fichier avec vlc (un simple clic doit suffire) ; pour changer de chaîne, il suffit d’aller dans le menu «Vue/Liste de …
Problème pour l’installation packages R dépendants de Rcpp dans Ubuntu 12.04Problem for installing R libraries compiled with Rccp in Ubuntu 12.04
Trying to install an R library depending on Rcpp, I got the following error message: install.packages(“wordcloud”) g++ -shared -o wordcloud.so layout.o Hello Nathalie! Welcome in R, the statistics program for satanic girls… -L/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/lib Rrrr! R you really leaving? -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR g++: error: Hello: No such file or directory g++: error: Nathalie!: No such …