While trying to set up a VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 I was unable to compile Ruby 2.1.1 (which was the current version). I kept running into errors such as:

readline.c:1977:26: error: ‘Function’ undeclared ...

The cause is that Ubuntu 14.04 ships with Readline version 6.3 which apparently breaks builds of Ruby and Python. …

Ubuntu 12.04 breaks netatalk and when you try to login in to the apple share you will get errors such as this in /var/log/syslog:

Jun 14 13:03:13 GlaDoS afpd[4395]:
===============================================================
Jun 14 13:03:13 GlaDoS afpd[4395]: INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 4395 (2.2.1)
Jun 14 …

In order to determine the source of a package:

apt-cache policy {package name}

e.g:

apt-cache policy xbmc
xbmc:
  Installed: 2:11.0~git20120321.14feb09-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid
  Candidate: 2:11.0~git20120321.14feb09-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid
  Version table:
 *** 2:11.0~git20120321.14feb09-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid 0
        500 …

Purpose

Set up Netatalk to use afp between my Mountain Lion desktop and my Ubuntu file server.

Relevant Details

Hackintosh OSX desktop running 10.8.2 Ubuntu Server running Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric

Process

All of this is on the Ubuntu File server. Setting up the afp Mountain Lion client is trivial. Simply connect to server …