Intro For a better development experience I needed to set up Wordpress locally on my Tumbleweed machine, which was somewhat different than the Ubuntu that I brought the site from. It wasn’t really 500 steps, but does have some gotchas and require some time to get right. Prerequisites Have a version of the WordPress site running somewhere on server that you can access. You need a mysqldump of its db and a copy of its complete file structure.

I use light for managing my screen brightness in exwm, because the repo-available xbacklight fails for want of a recognizable xserver. One day my exwm just stopped finding “light” after using it for screen brightness for a year or two. When trying to re-install with the instructions on their repo, I kept getting this error: autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --force-missing --warnings=portability autoreconf: no config.status: cannot re-make The solution turned out to be to skip the autogen part of the instructions and just move on:

I was receiving the error “We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser.” I noticed they worked in Chrome but not Firefox; in my experience this is because Firefox has some additional protections against non-free software that CHrome doesn’t care about. I identified that my browser was missing some codecs checking youtube and spotting the red-boxes under “what does this browser support?” Looking around I found this solution.