It was hard to make a good title with proper English on this one because I wasn’t sure how to exactly describe what I’m doing here. Hopefully you located this blog ok and are trying to do the same thing I am. The Goal of This Exercise Every computer needs a new operating system ‘refresh’ at some point because of…
How to Fix PDF Engine Error Problem in Pandoc in Ubuntu
Intro All I wanted to do was to convert a markdown (.md) file to pdf for crying out loud. I heard it was possible and good to use pandoc. For years I ran the command I was supposed to. Looks like this: pandoc input.md -o output.pdf But all I got was this: pdflatex not found. Please select a different –pdf-engine…
SETTING UP STALWART WITH PODMAN AND QUADLET
SECTION 1 – BACKGROUND This document comes from my many attempts to make this work with podman-compose setup. I got it working and hope to document those details at a later date. I had to give up on that because when I exited the ssh session it would kill the server. I found this reddit post which made me conclude…
HOW TO CLEAR MAUTIC CACHE IN PODMAN
I had a challenge with my mautic landing pages when I did a fresh install using Podman. Part of the process that I thought was both useful and educational and worth leaving as a permanent post was how to clear the Mautic cache, especially using podman This mautic documentation page indicated that it may be required to a) clear the…
HOW TO GET MAUTIC LANDING PAGE BUILDER WORKING
THE BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM After much face-palming I finally got the html builders working on a fresh install of Mautic. Before that, when I went under “Components” and “Landing Pages”, and when I tried to open the builder function after selecting a template, all I got was a white screen with the tools on the right pane. When I clicked…
Mautic Contacts Import Export Template CSV
This will be one of my smallest posts. For some reason in Mautic, unlike most systems I’ve worked in, you can’t easily click and download a .csv ‘template’ of the fields that it uses. I was trying to create a test list in a spreadsheet and then import that test list (mainly for emailing of course) into Mautic and I…
How to Wipe Out a Podman Container with Podman-compose Setup
Its kind of a tricky post I’m making here because actually there is no difference between how you remove the containers whether it was created with podman-compose or otherwise. However, it took me a long time to figure that out and get the quick and simple answer so here is a blog to cut to the chase. If you created…
How to Get Set Up For Audio-Only Audiocasting
Of course I don’t use the word ‘podcast’ because its roots are associated with a large company that hasn’t done a lot of good for freedom in software (or hardware). So, you will read ‘audiocast’ and you’ll know what it means. The purpose of this post is to give you an open source and audio-only setup for recording, while also…
Doing a Direct-to-Local MYSQL Dump
One of the most valuable things I learned in my ‘my-server-has-run-out-of-memory’ crisis was that I can dump my database directly to my local machine without having to first save it to the server and then download it from there. It is surprising that it took me well over 5 years to find it but what a gem for every person…
How to get a Podman Container IP address with less errors
(Edited Solution Dec 13, 2024) (Second edit of Solution Dec 28 2024) Background I was trying to get the IP address of one of my podman containers. I was using this command over and over with much pain (and no gain): podman inspect -f ‘{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}’ <container-name> Journey to the Solution Finally, after much frustration, I resorted to AI…