Installing Linux Mint 18.2

Firefox 52+ does not work with ALSA, therefore you must install PulseAudio:

sudo apt install pulseaudio pavucontrol

and then activate my bose speakers using the PulseAudio Volume Control from the main menu.


Install the following libraries (sudo apt-get install):
qml-module-org-kde-kholidays  (this is for the holidays in the calendar)
gnome-themes-standard          (prevents warning with wxmaxima)
plasma-widget-cwp
plasma-widget-weatherforecast (widget weather forecast... cities)


Otros programas a installar
lha
rpm
rsibreak (workrave does not work)
texstudio (descargar desde página oficial)
google earth (descargar desde página oficial)
acrobat reader (.deb)

Después de instalar MATLAB, instale
matlab-support


Login Manager (greeter)
sddm is the default login manager in Linux Mint 18.2
It is really ugly, and I really like mdm, the default in LM 17.3
Therefore, install mdm and select it as the login manager
Remove sddm, sddm-theme*, kde-config-sddm


In order to remove the
[FAILED] Failed to start braille device support
error, remove brltty

Inkscape 0.46 in Linux Mint 17

I like to use psfrag + Inkscape to create my LaTeX plots,

However, I use inkscape 0.46, because this does not have a bug with the rendering of the text.

I use wine + inkscape 0.46

However when running I get this error:

(inkscape.exe:8): Pango-WARNING **: All font fallbacks failed!!!!

I solved it by installing the fonts with:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Moviendome a ASSEMBLA

Lo hice con el comando:

svn relocate https://free1.projectlocker.com/diegoandresalvarez/LaTeX/svn/libro_solidos https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/libro-solidos/libro_solidos


login: diegoandresalvarez
pass: N...

Backup of SVN repository

In order to backup my projectlocker repository I did the following:

svnrdump dump https://free1.projectlocker.com/diegoandresalvarez/LaTeX/svn > backup_libro_solidos.dump

This creates a dump file of the content of an entire repository. This dump file can then be loaded into a new repository (using ‘svnadmin load’) as required.

Problem with Ghostscript in LInux Mint 17 Qiana

ps2pdf does not work because some fonts are missing. I obtain the error:

Error: /typecheck in /findfont

 According to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732440 the solution is:

• sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/woff/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff
• sudo fc-cache -s
• fc-cache -s

Programs to Install in Linux Mint 17 Qiana

arj
unarj
codeblocks
codeblocks-contrib   
dict
dosbox

dropbox
dvipng
fatsort 
firefox-locale-es
g++
gcc-4.8-doc
gnuplot
google-earth-stable
htop
imagemagick
inkscape
kdesudo
kdiff3
kile
kolourpaint4
kompare
krename
krusader
joe
latex-xcolor
libstdc++-4.8-doc
manpages-dev (man pages funciones C)
mc
meld
octave
p7zip-full
pfg (TikZ)
rar
wxmaxima maxima-share maxima-doc
vlc
unace
ubuntu-restricted-extras

screen
skype
subversion
texlive
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-lang-spanish
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-full
ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
valgrind 
wine
workrave


To enable playback of encrypted dvds, install the following package.

$ sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

Download ACROBAT READER: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/

Disabling BALOO in Linux Mint 17 Qiana KDE

There is a bug with this program, which is using one of my processors and making my system sluggish:

Following the steps here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/437635/how-to-turn-off-baloo-in-kde-4-13
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217434

I edited:
$HOME/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc

And added the option:

Indexing-Enabled=true  

 
Also I erased the directory with the indexing, since I do not need it anymore:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo