Archive for April, 2014

Restore grub after windows7 install

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5 years
by in Linux

I get forgetting the steps so here’s a reminder.
When you dualboot with windows and install windows *after* Linux you’ll lose the grub menu and get into the proper OS anymore.
That’s not ideal.
So here the steps to restore the grub bootloader after windows has removed it.

  • Get a Linux live USB/CD/DVD and start it.
  • Start a terminal and type this 
    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys 

sudo chroot /mnt

update-grub

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

exit
  • reboot

Done.

 

 

ogg not playing on Kivy when packaged with pyinstaller

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5 years
by in Childsplay, Kivy, Windows

I’m working to package a Kivy based project for Windows7 by using pyinstaller and while following
the Kivy manual I noticed that all went well except for the ogg sound files I’m using.
The only thing one would notice when running the “exe” is that when playing the ogg you
would only hear a “click” iso the ogg sound file.
The solution  was to include by hand the the following DLL’s from site-packages/pygame:
libogg.dll, libvorbis.dll and libvorbisfile.dll to th eroot of the “exe” tree.

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