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Ubuntu: qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSLv23_client_method

Submitted by Druss on Thu, 2018-10-11 22:29

I ran into this error today while running a python program in Kubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 17.10):

qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot call unresolved function SSLv23_client_method

followed by a bunch of other similar SSL-related errors. When I checked apt, I found that my openSSL install was fine. A generous guy on IRC informed me that I was very likely missing libraries that the app was looking for. S/he asked me to try installing libssl1.0-dev and voila, it worked.

Hearthstone: Playonlinux install suddenly not working after update

Submitted by Druss on Thu, 2018-01-11 01:57

If your WiNE or Playonlinux installation of Hearthstone or Blizzard's Battle.Net client has suddenly stopped working after an update, one thing to try is to check if a newer version of Wine is available and install that. This usually gets me out of trouble with my Playonlinux installation.

Hearthstone: Unable to claim gift via the battle.net client on Linux (PlayonLinux)

Submitted by Druss on Thu, 2018-01-11 01:27

So, Blizzard is offering a gift to players for some reason (possibly for a bug, I forget). But on my Linux install (via Playonlinux), clicking the Gifts button at the top just brings up a blank screen. You are supposedly also able to claim the gift by logging onto battle.net in a browser. But where does one go from there? There's a "Gift history" option in your account settings section, but that does not list anything that is claimable.

Inkscape: Textfields in SVGs are replaced by black boxes (when converted to PNG)

Submitted by Druss on Sun, 2017-10-01 03:08

So I had to upload an SVG flowchart which looked great on my computer. However, when accessed from the server, certain text elements were displayed as large black boxes. This was happening only with converted PNGs of the SVG as the SVG itself rendered just fine. I initially thought that this was some kinda font issue. But apparently not. This happens because Inkscape's SVGs are not always valid and in this case, uses something called a flowRoot element which is not valid SVG.

Eclipse svn commit error: "svn: E200007: CHECKOUT can only be performed on a version resource [at this time]."

Submitted by Druss on Sat, 2017-05-13 00:10

I just ran into the following error while trying to commit (a previously working project) in Eclipse Neon:

svn: E200007: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: E200007: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: E200007: CHECKOUT can only be performed on a version resource [at this time].
svn: E175002: CHECKOUT request failed on '/svn/foo/!svn/rvr/1337/trunk/site/bar.example'
svn: E200007: Commit failed (details follow):

Kubuntu Linux: Increasing volume of audio via HDMI headphone jack

Submitted by Druss on Fri, 2017-02-03 20:56

So, I've started plugging my headphone into my monitor's headphone jack rather than the analog audio ports in my CPU and there's been a drastic reduction in the volume levels. The volume is often insufficient even when everything in my volume settings is maxed out. Here are a couple of things to try out in KDE/Kubuntu/Linux that might help alleviate the situation.

Kubuntu/Pulseaudio: Record both mic and system audio

Submitted by Druss on Fri, 2016-10-14 19:35

Today, I started dabbling in doing some screen recording in Linux and while I could find programs to record the screen, I couldn't get the audio working as I wanted. By default, the programs record either the system audio, or the mic audio (or if the program is shit, neither); they don't record both the system audio and the mic audio. The fix for this on my Kubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) system which uses the Pulseaudio system to manage audio is as follows:

Installing .NET on Wine (Linux)

Submitted by Druss on Sun, 2016-09-11 23:54

So I've been having trouble getting a Windows program to work in Wine (Windows emulator) on my Kubuntu 16.04 system. It's a simple program but one that requires .NET 3.5. Considering its simplicity, I thought that it'd work fine using just Mono and it did fire up. However, it wasn't terribly usable throwing constant errors and being very buggy. So I had to also install .NET 3.5.

security.debian.org timing out during apt-get/aptitude updates

Submitted by Druss on Fri, 2016-09-09 02:23

On a fresh Debian 8 (Jessie) install, I found that I couldn't update the package repository using apt because security.debian.org was always timing out. While I initially thought this was because of a mirroring issue oslt, it turns out that it's because I was trying to access it via the IPV6 that my VPS was using. Turns out that the fix is reasonably straightforward. You simply tell apt not to bother with ipv6 and simply use ipv4 … like so:

echo 'Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99force-ipv4

MongoDB on Linux with pecl "configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL's libraries"

Submitted by Druss on Sun, 2015-12-06 21:29

Edit: Skip this and scroll down for a proper fix!

Just tried installing MongoDB support for PHP on Kubuntu 15.10 via pecl and ran into the following error message which caused the installation to fail:

configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL's libraries

While this can probably be fixed using some magickery, in my case, I did not want SSL support on a dev server. I just wanted to get the fucker up and running. To this end, I discovered that the issue was that I was using:

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