It has been a while since I have released an updated version of Overclockix. I was considering releasing a new version in the near future but since Debian has scheduled the next point release (7.2) for October 12th, I might as well go ahead and wait until then to release a new version. There are a few bug fixes and tweaks that are going into this next version that I think will be great to have in place....
Note: I did not create the solution to this issue. I originally found it over at the crunchbang forums so credit goes to them for finding/creating this work around. One thing that I noticed when I upgraded my Debian servers from squeeze to wheezy was that a number of them were reporting the root filesystem in the output of df as the by-uuid symlink (found in /dev/disk/by-uuid) instead of the actual device name....
Note: You can follow the same instructions for the Oracle Java 7 JRE. If you do, ignore the steps for javac. Previously, I have relied on following instructions from Alexander Holbreich’s blog on how to install the latest Oracle Java JDK on Debian Wheezy (amd64). There are a few steps that are a little outdated but overall, it works well. Since I find myself updating Java fairly often as newer versions are released, I figured that it would be worthwhile to write down the updated steps:...
So since wheezy has finally been released as the new ‘stable’ version of Debian, I went ahead and revisited vmware-view-client on wheezy. I ran into a number of problems Basically, the solution is to use multi-arch and libssl0.9.8 from Ubuntu (i386). You will want the i386 packages even if you are using the amd64 build of Debian wheezy. Please note that if you have anything that relies on the Debian squeeze version of libssl0....