If you’re using Chef on FreeBSD you might stumble upon the following error message when using the knife command.

After upgrading my chrome port on FreeBSD 9.3 I got the following error message when I tried to start chrome:

If you try to install the nokogiri gem on freebsd you may get the following error message:

If you’re not using gnome or xfce but have some gtk apps installed then you could always set your theme preferences via ~/.gtkrc-2.0 like this:

I recently switched to airline as powerline replacement for vim.

To enable support for powerline-fonts the following steps were needed:

Sometimes you have to rebuild ports due to a library update. But if there are vulnerabilities known for that ports then make will bail out with an error message and refuse to build the port. Instead it gives you the advice to update or deinstall the port which is good advice but sometimes just not possible.

If you run into an error while trying to compile the py-cairo port complaining it can’t find the python headers, you need to rebuild your python port with pth support disabled.

To mount an iso image under FreeBSD just follow these steps.

To get wine (which is a 32 bit application) running on a 64 bit FreeBSD installation you have 2 options:

1. Get the wine-fbsd64 packages from mediafire.
2. Build it manually.

Since some time it seems to be somewhat impossible to install the ruby-debug gem into your rails app. The error message will most likely look similar to this one:

When using Linux it is often helpful to use the following command if an application crashes: