My testing environment is a workstation running on a JiffyBox, using X2Go Here are the steps that I use to setup my machine with OpenSUSE 12.3: zypper install -t pattern kde4 kde4_basis findutils-locatezypper install -t pattern kde4 kde4_basis findutils-locate Install
Building the latest Mono and MonoDevelop on OBS
In this blog post, I want to describe some of the workarounds I need to do to release the latest mono and monodevelop packages on OBS. For more details on this project from a using perspective, see: Easy installation of
Easy installation of current Mono and MonoDevelop for all major Linux Distributions
This blog post is a repeat of an email that I sent to the Mono mailing list back in July 2013: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2013-July/050114.html The problem is that there are no recent packages for the major Linux distributions offered at http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html and http://monodevelop.com/Download I personally
Install OpenPetra on Linux
Installing OpenPetra on Linux should be fairly easy. Please note that the server works fine on Linux, but the client is not yet fully reliable. But the more interest and fixes it gets, the chances are higher that the client
Contributing to Kolab documentation via github/sphinx
The new Kolab 3.1 documentation is written in reStructuredText, using a tool called Sqhinx which was originally created for the Python documentation. It is much easier to edit than the Publican notation used before for the Kolab 3.0 documentation. The
Build OBS packages locally for CentOS
Sometimes it is just quicker to test the building of a CentOS package locally, than to wait for the OBS server to build it. You also get a chance to search the BUILD directory for files that you might be
Kolab Integration Tests with Selenium and Python
For Quality Assurance, it is important that the testing of functionality can be automated. Depending on the detail of the tests, the tests are called Unit Tests or Integration tests. This article shows how to write tests in Python, and
HowTo improve Debian packages using OBS
This is a quick tutorial how to branch packages on OBS (hosted by Kolab Systems), for improving the Debian packages. Please see also the step by step instructions in the Kolab documentation. My steps show how to fix the bug
Nightly builds of Kolab for CentOS and Debian
The nightly builds for Kolab have been running nicely for a while, and they are now compiled on the Kolab Systems OBS server. Now I have added Debian packages too. This might help other people interested in packages for Debian
Downloading from OBS repo via php proxy file
The default port for the Open Build Service for the published repositories is 82. If you are using the Internet through an http proxy, this can cause trouble, as it did for me when I wanted to install from the