Combine install Ubuntu 9.10

by bose on July 23, 2010

Message below copied from here for my reference: Sourceforge forum

Looking at the installation problems that some of the Debian packages for Perl modules required that I have made available in the package repository had very strict dependencies on the perl-api. The two packages I had problems with are:

Text::Ngram and Text::ExtractWords.

Trying on freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 I came up with the following sequence of commands that managed to install Combine. But be warned : A LOT OF other packages gets installed doing it this way!

sudo apt-get install devscripts dh-make-perl
cpan2deb Text::Ngram
sudo dpkg -i ../libtext-ngram-perl_0.11-1_i386.deb
cpan2deb Tex::ExtractWords
sudo dpkg -i ../libtext-extractwords-perl_0.08-1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install combine

(Your .deb file-names may vary…)
This procedure might help you get Combine installed on your specific machine with your version of Perl.

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Safari 5: Bad

by bose on July 20, 2010

About a month ago, Eileen noticed a black background appearing in her outgoing Mail messages. This was getting to be a real pain because the MailMerge scripts began doing it as well.

This was taking up a lot of my time and finally a google search came up with this:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20008012-263.html

Safari 5 recently installed is the culprit because it “updates” WebKit so affects the underlying system.

The workaround was to reinstall Safari 4.0.5 using Pacifist, instructions here: http://appletoolbox.com/2010/06/downgrade-from-safari-5-0-to-safari-4-0-5/

This did not work in 10.6.4, so now we wait for Apple or switch to Direct mail from e3 software

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