Install Crystal on Docker: how to add the Crystal repository to Docker in the Dockerfile

Dockerfile (excerpt) ENV APT_KEY_DONT_WARN_ON_DANGEROUS_USAGE=DontWarn RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \          software-properties-common \          build-essential \         libevent-dev \         libssl-dev \         libxml2-dev \         libyaml-dev \         libgmp-dev \         libreadline-dev \         apt-transport-https \         iputils-ping \         git \         aptitude \         nano \         openssh-server \         && apt-key adv –keyserver keys.gnupg.net –recv-keys 09617FD37CC06B54 \         && add-apt-repository ‘deb https://dist.crystal-lang.org/apt crystal…

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Alpine boot process on the Raspberry Pi

Today we will have a look at the Alpine Linux boot process on a Raspberry Pi in some detail. The picture shows the contents of a “virgin” SD card with the Alpine image, which has not been booted yet. This picture shows the contents of the boot folder. Initial boot Stages on the Raspberry Pi…

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PiDoctor, a free online tool to check Raspberry Pi computers

PiDoctor is a free online tool to check Raspberry Pi computers and display the information in an clear way to users. PiDoctor is part of picockpit.com, a growing collection of tools to support Raspberry Pi single board computer users. Leipzig, January 10, 2019 – pi3g e.K., an approved Reseller of Raspberry Pi computers for Germany,…

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nlplug-findfs documentation

nlplugfs-findfs usage: %s [options] DEVICE options: -a OUTFILE add paths to found apkovls to OUTFILE -b OUTFILE add found boot repositories to OUTFILE -c CRYPTDEVICE run cryptsetup luksOpen when CRYPTDEVICE is found -h show this help -H HEADERDEVICE use HEADERDEVICE as the LUKS header -k CRYPTKEY path to keyfile -m CRYPTNAME use CRYPTNAME name for…

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OfficeTabLoader.Dll Initialization error 4

I’ve bought and installed OfficeTabLoader, as I work A LOT with office documents – don’t know why I didn’t come up with the idea to optimize this before! Anyways, right out of the box I get this Initialization error 4 from OfficeTabLoader.Dll. It turns out that my Antivirus Software (Bitdefender) is the problem: This works…

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Crystal libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file

Today I upgraded my Ubuntu to 18.04. Compiling a file with Crystal gives me the following error: stderr:     /root/.cache/crystal/usr-share-crystal-src-ecr-process.cr/macro_run: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The library in question, libevent-2.0.so.5 has been superseded by libevent-2.1.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.6 Crystal is of course aware of this…

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Interview with Simon Long of Raspberry Pi about the Raspberry Pi Desktop, UI design, and much more!

Important background information: this interview was done in early July 2018, so some applications to which Simon refers might already be released, etc. Max: This is the interview with Simon Long of the Raspberry Pi Foundation who is mainly responsible for Raspbian the desktop OS. Simon: That’s right. Max: Many applications like VeraCrypt release binaries…

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Crystal & Alpine on the Raspberry Pi

Bringing together two interesting technologies: Alpine Linux – a small-size and security oriented Linux distribution Crystal – a compiled language with a nice syntax (similar to Ruby) on the Raspberry Pi (armhf / ARMv6, which would also support the Pi Zero W) is not possible currently, as of 21.12.2018. There is no (at least no…

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Crystal: crystal language Duplicate trail found

max@morpheus:~/crystal/taxgod$ crystal run src/taxgod.cr Unhandled exception: Duplicate trail found ‘vat-correction’ (Radix::Tree::DuplicateError) from lib/radix/src/radix/tree.cr:0:11 in ‘add’ from lib/radix/src/radix/tree.cr:149:11 in ‘add’ from lib/radix/src/radix/tree.cr:149:11 in ‘add’ from lib/radix/src/radix/tree.cr:108:9 in ‘add’ from lib/kemal/src/kemal/route_handler.cr:49:7 in ‘add_to_radix_tree’ from lib/kemal/src/kemal/route_handler.cr:21:7 in ‘add_route’ from lib/kemal/src/kemal/dsl.cr:12:1 in ‘post’ from src/vatcorrection.cr:26:2 in ‘__crystal_main’ from /usr/share/crystal/src/crystal/main.cr:97:5 in ‘main_user_code’ from /usr/share/crystal/src/crystal/main.cr:86:7 in ‘main’ from /usr/share/crystal/src/crystal/main.cr:106:3 in ‘main’…

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