The Eclipse SDK 4.0 had been released on July 28th, 2010 just two days ago. The goals for this release are to be the next generation platform for building eclipse-based tools and rich client desktop application. This new release makes it easier for developers to develop and assemble applications and tools based on the Eclipse platform.

This article will show you how to install Eclipse SDK 4.0 on Linux, in this I use Slackware 13.1.

First of all, I assume you already installed the Java Development Kit (JDK) in your system. If not you can follow my previous article on how to install JDK on Linux.

1. Download Eclipse SDK 4.0

Go to Eclipse Release Build: 4.0 download page. Select the Linux Platform, in this I use x86/GTK 2 Platform. Then click the (http) link in the download column, you will be redirected to a mirror site nearest to you.

2. Extract the file using tar tool

Once the file has been downloaded successfully, extract or untar using the tar tool as follow:

tar zxf eclipse-SDK-4.0-linux-gtk.tar.gz

3. Change to eclipse directory

After extracting the file, an eclipse directory should be created in your current working directory. Go to the eclipse directory.

cd eclipse

4. Run eclipse

Now it is the time to run the Eclipse SDK 4.0

./eclipse

That’s it. Below is the screenshot of Eclipse SDK 4.0 running on Linux Slackware 13.1

Eclipse SDK 4.0 Screenshot (click to enlarge)

I just downloaded the latest Zend Framework 1.10.6 to test creating web applications using Zend Framework. I have also already installed Netbeans 6.9 for writing Java and PHP codes. The operating system I use is Linux Slackware 13.1.

At the beginning, creating Zend projects are fine, meaning without encountered any warning/error messages. But after adding the Zend Framework to the Netbeans IDE, I could not create Zend web project. The error messages warned me that “PHP Warning:  include_once(NetBeansCommandsProvider.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/to/zend/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 146″

This is already reported and discussed in the Netbeans bugzilla. It seems to be zend’s bug. The .zf.ini file, located in your $HOME directory, generated by zend tools has a wrong configuration. If you check the content of the .zf.ini file, there is incorrect in ‘php.includepath’ which should be ‘php.include_path’.

To solve this, just open the .zf.ini file and change the ‘php.includepath’ to be ‘php.include_path’. That’s it. Now try to create a new project using zf.sh/zf.php in command line interface. The new project should be created without any errors.

$ php bin/zf.php create project testproject
Creating project at /path/to/zend/testproject
Note: This command created a web project, for more information setting up your VHOST, please see docs/README

After being delayed for more than one month (scheduled to be released in June, 3rd), Mandriva Distribution teams officially announced the availability of Mandriva 2010 Spring code-named as ‘Farman’.

There are many improvements and new features have been added to the new release such as:

• encrypt your data in one click, it is just easy
• parental control allows you now to check not only web sites but also applications used by your children
• configure your network profile and switch from home to work in a click
• smart desktop makes your desktop clever: ginkgo helps you to manage your data in a very efficient way
• discover one of the largest choice for scientific and education applications

and many others!

The new release also comes with a lot of updates of some applications like GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.3, Firefox 3.6.6, OpenOffice.Org 3.2.

Choose the edition that suits best your needs:

• Powerpack edition: the best of open source including some complementary softwares (audio/vidéo codecs, DVD reader, Adobe applications…)
• One edition: easy to test and to install, choose you environment and your language
• Free edition: the 100% open source edition

Coming soon the Flash edition, 2010 Spring on a USB key for a very mobile and secure desktop.

Source: Official Mandriva Blog

Flock is a social web browser that pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them. The current latest stable version is v2.6.1.

This tutorial will show you how to install Flock 2.6.1 on Slackware 13.1.

Here are the steps:

1. Download the Flock Browser
Go to http://www.flock.com/ and enter your email address into the download text field.

2. Extract the file
Extract the file using ‘tar’ tool and move the folder to the safest location. I just moved it to $HOME directory and rename it as ‘flock-browser’.

$ tar jxf flock-2.6.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
$ mv flock /home/fuad/flock-browser

That’s it. You are ready to run the Flock browser.

3. Run the Flock browser (via command line)
To run the Flock broser via command line, simply run the ‘flock-browser’ located in flock folder installation.

$ /home/fuad/flock-browser/flock-browser

4. Create a Launcher in the Desktop
To make it easy, create a launcher of Flock in the Desktop so you do not need to run it manually via command line.

Flock Launcher

Below is the screenshot of Flock Browser running on Slackware 13.1

Flock Browser Screenshot (click to enlarge)

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Opera is claimed as the fastest web browser on earth even some benchmarks show that it is beaten by Google Chrome. It is OK. We will not talk about browser benchmarking here.

In this tutorial I want to show you how to install Opera Browser 10.60 on Linux (in this case I use Slackware 13.1).

Below are the steps:

1. Download source file

Go to Opera Download Website http://www.opera.com/browser/download/
Select “Slackware” as the distribution and choose the ‘tar.gz’ package format as pictured above.
Select the download location nearest to you. Then click ‘Download Opera’ button/link.

2. Extract the file and begin installation
After the file has been successfully downloaded, now extract the file and begin the installation.

$ tar zxf opera-10.60-6386.i386.linux.tar.bz2
$ cd opera-10.60-6386.i386.linux
$ sudo ./install

The installation wizard will appear as follow:

Click OK

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Click Yes to Continue.

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Select ‘system – Install globally’ then OK

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Leave it empty and select OK

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Opera browser has been installed successfully. Select OK.

You can run Opera by issuing the following command:

$ /usr/local/bin/opera

or click Opera from the main menu.

Here is the screenshot:

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The RedHat Development Team has announced that RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 Beta 2 is now available for download. According to the release announcement, the RHEL 6 Beta2 release include an update installer, an update kernel, many new technologies and resolutions to many issues that were reported in the previous Beta cycle.

The RHEL Beta2 has been restructured into two parts as follow:

1. RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Beta

• Clustered Storage
• Large File System
• High Availability
• Load Balance

2. RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 Beta

• Large File System

To get more details about this release or to download the installation files, visit the RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta portal at: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta

Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10 had been officially released by Oracle for Solaris 10 (SPARC, x86), OEL 5 (x86), RHEL 5 (x86), SuSE 11 (x86) and will be available for OpenSolaris in the near future. You can find the release details here.

This tutorial will guide how to install it on Slackware 13.1 using the tarbal installer file.

Here are the step by step:

1. Download the Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10
Go to http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express/thankyou.jsp to download the file.
Slackware is not an RPM package format (though you can convert RPM file to TGZ using ‘rpm2tgz’ tool) I will use option 2 (the tarbal file) in this tutorial.

2. Untar and extract the file
Once you finish the download file, untar and extract the tarbal file.

$ tar jxf SolarisStudioExpress2010-06-lin-x86.tar.bz2

A folder named ‘solstudioex1006′ will be created in the current working directory.

3. Run the ‘sunstudio’ file
Definitely you are now ready to run the Solaris Studio Express. It is simply by running the ‘sunstudio’ file installed in ‘solstudioex1006/bin’ directory. Run the file then accept the licence agreement and you are done.

$ /home/fuad/Softwares/solstudioex1006/bin/sunstudio 
/bin/cp: target `1.73GHz/config/Modules/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-debugger-gdb.xml_hidden' is not a directory
/bin/cp: target `1.73GHz/config/Modules/org-netbeans-modules-cnd-kit.xml_hidden' is not a directory
/home/fuad/Softwares/solstudioex1006/bin/sunstudio: line 279: [: too many arguments

You can simply ignore the warning messages above.
Here are some screenshots of it.

Solaris Studio Express Licence Agreement (click to enlarge)

Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10 (click to enlarge)

Slackware 13.1 had been released on May 25th, 2010 that brings with it many major improvements, like KDE SC version 4.4.3, the 2.6.33.4 Linux kernel, a new toolchain, updated libraries, and major applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird.

This tutorial will show you on how to install Google Chrome Browser on Slackware 13.1.
Basically there are already plenty of tutorials about this on the net but this is the easiest way to install it.

Here are the step by step:

1. Download Google Chrome Slackbuild
Go to Google Chrome Slackbuild repository page
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/network/google-chrome/ to get the files.
Download the google-chrome.tar.gz and google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb (32bit) or google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb (64bit) depending on which arch you are using.

2. Extract the google-chrome.tar.gz file
Next step is to untar and extract the google-chrome.tar.gz.

tar zxf google-chrome.tar.gz

A folder named ‘google-chrome’ will be created in your current working directory.

3. Copy or move the google-chrome-xxx.deb file to the ‘google-chrome’ directory
The google chrome slackbuild script will try to find the google-chrome-xxx.deb file. If it is not found, the script will break telling you that there is not such file or directory.

cp google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb google-chrome

4. Building google chrome slackware package
Go to google-chrome directory. Make sure the ‘google-chrome.SlackBuild’ is executable.

cd google-chrome
chmod +x google-chrome.SlackBuild
sudo ./google-chrome.SlackBuild
....
[snip]
....
opt/google/chrome/resources/inspector/inspector.css
opt/google/chrome/resources/inspector/popover.css
opt/google/chrome/xdg-settings
opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
opt/google/chrome/chrome.pak
opt/google/chrome/product_logo_22.png
opt/google/chrome/chrome
opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so
install/
install/doinst.sh
install/slack-desc
 
Slackware package /tmp/google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz created.

5. Starting to install the Google Chrome package
Now it is the time to start installing the package.

sudo installpkg /tmp/google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz
Verifying package google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz.
Installing package google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# Google Chrome (Open Source Web Browser)
#
# Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with
# sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
#
Executing install script for google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz.
Package google-chrome-5.0.375.55-i386-1_SBo.tgz installed.

If there are no errors the Google Chrome should be installed successfully.
Here is the screenshot of mine.

Google Chrome on Slackware 13.1 (click to enlarge)

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The Mandriva Linux Project officially announced that the Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring RC2 is available for download. The release is essentially for bug fixes purposes, according to the developers.

You are encouraged to download and test the second RC then give feedbacks and reports to help in improving global quality of distribution.

The .iso files are already available in all public mirror sites:

• 32 and 64 bits DVD isos and mini dual iso (both 32 and 64 bits) for Free release (100% Open Source software)
• Live CDs One isos for KDE and GNOME environments (One isos will be available on Monday)

For more information about the release note of 2010 Spring release can be found here.

The Slackware Linux Project announced that they officially released Slackware 13.1. Another stable release of Slackware is finally ready to go. Slackware 13.1 is available in both 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 editions, and brings with it many major improvements, like KDE SC version 4.4.3, the 2.6.33.4 Linux kernel, a new toolchain, updated libraries, and major applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird.