Category: Ubuntu
Packaging a libGDX project for Ubuntu
Introduction We have already seen how to create an installable .deb package. However, to make it Ubuntu we need a source package that actually builds on the Launchpad server farm. This is not hard, bu... Read More
New Launchpad PPA for this site
We have created a new Launchpad PPA for the Ubuntu software presented on this site. Details can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~helfrich . For now the repository only contains a rather silly gam... Read More
GStreamer on Raspberry Pi – the short answer
What I needed was a live video stream to provide some sort of an FPV experience. Streaming over VLC or ffmpeg turned out to be suffering from too much of a time lag. Streaming over MJPEG Streamer with... Read More
Create a Debian package from an executable jar
We’ll use our simple game Cave Fizzer as an example again. It’s a libGDX project and we can simply export the desktop sub-project as a runnable jar. Once we have done so the challenge is t... Read More
Accessing a Dutch HTTP proxy from abroad
While I’m based in Germany, there are several reasons to occasionally surf the web with a Dutch IP address. Since I’m an XS4ALL customer it would seem a convenient solution to use their pr... Read More
Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex
Most GPS software that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 uses gpsd to retrieve data from the GPS receiver. So make sure that you have gpsd installed. Unfortunately the new JSON protocol used by gpsd is not supp... Read More