Thursday, July 24th, 2008
In this day modern day, most software installations can be done using repositories and package managers. However, you might face a situation of having only the source files availalble with you – you probably would want to try out bleeding edge software, which hasn’t been packaged yet, or isn’t available ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
This is a guest post by Kunal Gautam. This article is aimed at RHEL and Fedora users.
If you’ve been using Linux for a while, then you’d know how much of a pain it is to install a software which runs into dependency problems. One way of getting around this is ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Found this article while going random browsing, the original article is from Linux.com with JC Lima reccreates it, with example. Definitely worth reading
At first it did not make a lot of sense since unless you have the file open, this will not work. How likely are you to have the ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Want to try out some *NIX commands? But dont want to install *NIX ? Or cab't install *NIX ? Then This site's for you: CB.VU
CB.VU is a Unix-like virtual shell command line interface.
See "info" for the full credentials.
Try it out! It rocks!
PS: do type weather, matrix and whereiam You'll like ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads
35MÂ Â Â Â /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs
177MÂ Â Â /home/sathya/Downloads
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu\ ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
There are lots of times where you'd want to mount a CD/DVD image. Say your friend who uses his Windows box has given you a .iso file or a .mds/mdf file, created using Alcohol 120%. How would you mount them in Linux? Using the Terminal and making use of the ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Although Linux had progressed far from being a command-line only OS to a full fledged totally GUI based one, sometimes, the command line is the best way to get something done. Here are 5 of the must-know commands. These commands can b quite useful and handy.
1: mount: Used for ...
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