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Checkinstall lacks on Debian Etch, but the solution is very simple.

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• Versione italiana: aMsn, antialiasing (SVN) e TLS su Debian GNU/Linux;
• Traduction Française: Comment installer aMSN sous Debian et Gutsy?
  

aMsn is the most complete clone of Windows Live Messenger, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux: custom emoticon, animoticon, webcam, nudges and vocal messages. We’ll compile the SVN version of aMsn on Debian Lenny and Sid, activating font antialiasing and installing the whole thing under /opt.

… and solving, finally, the TLS problem!
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If you have installed Quark XPress 7,0 and it gives you an error message, which says that it doesn’t find Color Manager.qrc, than try to remove the program.
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Sometimes you need to save locally an existing Wordpress installation, for various reasons: to have a backup for tests, to modify a theme, moving the blog to a new server, etc.

With this article, you’ll see how to create a complete and perfect backup, translating all the URLs in the database to match your new host (http://localhost/ for local copies, or http://newserver.org/ for host changes). Even images’ URLs will be fixed.

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