Monthly Archives: March 2015

CyanogenMod on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2

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I wanted to breath a little new life into a Galaxy Tab 2 (model P3110) that was about 18 months old, so dusting it off I followed the instructions on the CyanogenMod wiki. Roughly the steps were as follows: I downloaded and installed the Heimdall tool to my desktop computer I downloaded the Clockwork Mod… Read more »

Building Likwid RPMs for CentOS

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Installing likwid is easy (using ./configure, make, make install) however I wanted to create an RPM package to allow for repeatable builds and installation across a number of nodes/machines. With the ‘Development Tools’ package installed I started with: mkdir -p /root/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} cd /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES I downloaded the latest likwid release (3.1.3) and copied it to /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/likwid-3.1.3.tar.gz… Read more »

MySQL dummy placeholder RPM package for MariaDB

On CentOS 7 MariaDB has (quite rightfully IMHO) replaced MySQL in the repositories however this has caused me a few problems. Since MySQL was so widely used there are other things that have MySQL as a requirement/dependency. Mainly my problem was some puppet modules that wanted the mysql-server package installed before they would proceed with… Read more »

Local Ubuntu Repository

I wanted to set up a local repository for DEB packages I create to be installed among a number of cluster nodes. After building the deb package I added it to my home folder as follows and created the Packages.gz file: apt-get install dpkg-dev mkdir -p /home/jonnymcc/ubuntu_repo cp slurm-14.03.3_14.03.3-1_armhf.deb /home/jonnymcc/ubuntu_repo cd /home/jonnymcc/ubuntu_repo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null… Read more »