Roy's musings

I am using Flask for some of my internal services. If you haven't used Flask , I would absolutely recommend that you check it out. Recently I got the following error while I was attempting to serve a page from template. In an attempt to troubleshoot the error, I wasted almost half an hour. 127.0.0.1 - - [19/Jun/2012 17:48:37] "POST /" 500 - ---------------------------------------- Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 55176) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 284, in _handle_request_noblock self.process_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 310, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 323, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 64...

I was excited to see the announcement that Emacs 24.1 has been released .  I wanted to install and try. There were a few glitches that I faced during the installation. I thought it might be useful for someone who might be hitting the same blocks. Once I downloaded the source code and verified the signature , I unzipped the Emacs 24.1 source code. The first "configure" run gave the following error: configure: error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries were found. You should install the relevant development files for X and for the toolkit you want, such as Gtk+, Lesstif or Motif. Also make sure you have development files for image handling, i.e. tiff, gif, jpeg, png and xpm. If you are sure you want Emacs compiled without X window support, pass --without-x to configure. To address this error I had to do the following: sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libtiff4-dev libgif-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libxpm-dev Then when I attempted to ru...