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Fix the “The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT” WordPress Error

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This is pretty straightforward, you’ll see this error when updating or installing a plugin. [enlighter linenumbers=”true”]The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT[/enlighter] Basically the file WordPress is trying to download is either corrupt or you don’t have the PHP curl module installed. So simply install it, for Ubuntu this is: [enlighter linenumbers=”true”]apt-get install php-curl[/enlighter] or … Read more

Don’t Buy WeMo Smart Plugs

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So I bought a 3 pack of the WeMo Smart Plugs in the hopes of yelling “Alex turn Bedroom Light Off” before bedtime. Instead of buying a Clapper, of which I’ve never seen in real life.  Which was probably a better idea seeing as the WeMo Smart Plugs are notorious for disconnecting from Wifi or … Read more

OVH Public Cloud CentOS 7 Change Hostname

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If you’ve tried to change the hostname on your OVH public cloud instance running CentOS 7, you may have had issues with it persisting after reboot. Took me way to long to find this solution, but someone had already spent way too much time figuring it out. This GitHub Gist explains it all https://gist.github.com/zmjwong/77ee37deb1749c2582eb Basically you … Read more

CrashPlan Update 4.8 and Linux Headless Issues

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An update to CrashPlan was rolled out at version 4.8 but no download files were available on their site for Windows. So if you’ve been trying to manage your Linux headless install and its failing, this might be why. Here’s the release notes. https://support.code42.com/Release_Notes/Code42_Platform/Code42_Public_Cloud_Version_5.4 I don’t know how to kick off updates to CrashPlan on … Read more

Tips and Tricks for Building Ubuntu Packages and Compiling

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If you’re about to build packages apt-get install build-essential If you can’t find debbuild apt-get install devscripts You receive the following error dh: unable to load addon quilt: Can’t locate Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/quilt.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Debian::Debhelper::Sequence::quilt module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.18.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.18 /usr/share/perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 13) … Read more

Creating ISO Partition on Local Disk for XenServer/XenCenter 6.5

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I just started playing with XenServer/XenCenter 6.5 and found a couple of templates required ISO images. Specifically Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr due to a bug, you can google it. Other Images like Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin didn’t require an ISO and just needed a URL to install. Funny enough this failed for me, I was … Read more

CrashPlan Error “Cound not Initialize class com.code42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager”

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I had a host that wasn’t backing up at all and found the following error message within the CrashPlan engine_error.log located in /usr/local/crashplan/log Exception in thread “W87903837_ScanWrkr” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.code42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager at com.code42.jna.inotify.JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.<init>(JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.java:21) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.initFileWatcherDriver(BackupSetsManager.java:393) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.startScheduledFileQueue(BackupSetsManager.java:331) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager.access$1600(BackupSetsManager.java:66) at com.code42.backup.path.BackupSetsManager$ScanWorker.delay(BackupSetsManager.java:1073) at com.code42.utils.AWorker.run(AWorker.java:158) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) From what I could tell it was related … Read more