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Java

OpenJDK 9 & macOS: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Library not loaded: @rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib

Some time ago I wrote a post on how to brew and manage multiple (Adopt)OpenJDK versions on your mac - which is my current java setup. Premised so, lately I wanted to

  • aleofreddi
2 min read
macOSX

Manage multiple jdk versions on macOS

Using homebrew It's super easy to install any JDK version from the adoptopenjdk builds: Andreas-Mac-mini:installer a.leofreddi$ brew tap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk ==> Tapping adoptopenjdk/openjdk Cloning into '/Users/a.leofreddi/Applications/

  • aleofreddi
1 min read
macOSX

Perl fails to compile XS modules on macOS Mojave

On Mojave, I ran into a situation while trying to install CryptX via CPAN: "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- CryptX.bs blib/arch/auto/CryptX/CryptX.

  • aleofreddi
1 min read
Unix

How to compress a PDF file on MacOSX (& Linux)

Often (and especially when scanning documents with my printer) from MacOSX I would get unreasonable huge PDFs which are not suitable for emails. To strip them down without pain one can use ghostprint:

  • aleofreddi
1 min read
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