Llaisdy

tmux depends on libevent but after installing libevent, tmux still won’t configure:


$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... etc/install-sh -c -d
...
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for LIBEVENT... no
checking for library containing event_init... no
configure: error: "libevent not found"
$


You have to tell it where lib event is installed. I did a vanilla configure && make && sudo make install and it seems to have ended up in /usr/local/, so:

$ DIR="/usr/local/"
$ ./configure CFLAGS="-I$DIR/include" LDFLAGS="-L$DIR/lib"
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... etc/install-sh -c -d
...
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
$


Done.

Thanks to stackexchange.

All the info is on this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=267052

gpointing-device-settings is a braindead gui from Gnome. Worst of all, it doesn’t remember your settings, so every time you boot up, you have to fiddle about with the gui again.

The post linked to shows how to use xinput to get/set configurations for peripherals, and how to wrap xinput commands in scripts.

On Unix-like systems low-level byte-to-byte copying is done with dd:

dd if=[input file] of=[output location]

n.b.: of is a location, not a filename, so you can’t use the file path to your USB stick, as in:

dd if=dfly-i386-gui-2.10.1_REL.img of=/Volumes/MyUSBStick

The path to the device location is required, as in:

dd if=dfly-i386-gui-2.10.1_REL.img of=/dev/disk1

On MacOSX, how to find out the dev name of your USB port is described in this Ubuntu help page. The following will list the currently mounted devices, with their dev names:

$ diskutil list

This will unmount the device, ready for dd:

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/[name]

And this will do the deed:

$ dd if=/path/to/input/image of=/dev/[name] bs=2048

Finally, this will make your device safe for removal.

$ diskutil eject /dev/