Posted on February 6, 2010 with No Comments
On ubuntu , when i run git svn, i get following error
root@hostonnet:/usr/local/zend/share# git svn clone http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk git: 'svn' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'. root@hostonnet:/usr/local/zend/share#
This is fixed by installing git-svn
sudo apt-get install git-svn
Posted on January 16, 2010 with No Comments
Today i installed Google Chrome on Ubuntu. It works great, now i have Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome on Ubuntu desktop. Great work Google for supporting Linux.
Tags: browser, chrome, Google Chrome, ubuntu
Category: ubuntu
Posted on January 7, 2010 with No Comments
XPGnome theme can make ubuntu look like Microsoft Windows XP.
Tags: ubuntu, windows xp theme
Category: ubuntu
Posted on October 8, 2009 with No Comments
To change computer name in ubuntu, run
sudo echo "computer-new-name" > /etc/hostname
Now you need to reboot to get the computer name changed.
Tags: change name, computer name, hostname, ubuntu
Category: ubuntu
Posted on September 24, 2009 with No Comments
To extract rar file, you need to install unrar with
sudo apt-get install unrar
To extract a rar file, go to command line, run
unrar x fileName.rar
For other command line options of unrar, run
man unrarPosted on September 12, 2009 with No Comments
festival is a tts (text-to-speech) software in ubuntu that offers several different voices.
To install festival, run
sudo apt-get install festival
Now to use festival, in command line type
echo "Host On Net Provides Web Hosting" | festival --tts
Or
festival --tts file-name.txtPosted on May 31, 2009 with No Comments
By default ubuntu 9 have chmsee installed to view windows chm help files.
chmSee is ok for reading chm files, but there is no search function. If you have a reference chm file, it is not easy to find some thing you need with out search function.
I have installed xchm that have search function and also shows bookmarks.
Tags: chm, read chm linux, ubuntu, xchm
Category: ubuntu
Posted on May 31, 2009 with No Comments
To extract RAR archives in Ubuntu, you need to install unrar.
On terminal run
sudo apt-get install unrar
Or you can install from Synaptic Package Manager
To extract a rar file, run terminal, go to the folder where the rar file is located.
Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
Run
unrar x filename.rar
hoston@linux:~/my/share/software/FTP$ unrar x FlashFXP.rar
UNRAR 3.80 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Alexander Roshal
Extracting from FlashFXP.rar
Creating FlashFXP OK
Creating FlashFXP/FlashFXP OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/FlashFXP Website.url OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/flashfxp.chm OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/FlashFXP.exe OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/IEFlash.dll OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/install.sss OK
Creating FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Bulgarian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Catalan.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Chinese Simplified.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Chinese Traditional.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Czech.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Dutch.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/European Portuguese.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/French.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/German.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Hungarian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Italian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Japanese.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Korean.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Polish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Russian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Spanish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Swedish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Turkish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/libeay32.dll OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/ssleay32.dll OK
Extracting FlashFXP/SN.txt OK
All OK
hoston@linux:~/my/share/software/FTP$
Tags: Synaptic Package Manager, ubuntu, unrar
Category: ubuntu