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Changing Ubuntu APT mirror from commandline

Last day i removed GUI from Ubuntu installation as i don’t need GUI in development machine. Today i run apt-get, found it is downloading packages from server located in USA. I need it to download files from Indian Ubuntu mirror


How to extract RAR files in Ubuntu

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 unrar


Install festival tts in ubuntu

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


Debian: How to find a package is installed from .deb or source

When installing ffmpeg-php in a debian server, i got error # phpize -bash: phpize: command not found # This is because php-devel package is not installed on the server. Before installing, you need to find out whether php is installed