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List all installed packages in ubuntu

Posted on March 22, 2013 by admin

To list all installed packages in ubuntu, run dpkg –get-selections

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Things i don’t like in Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on June 4, 2010 by flashweb

Ubuntu have two horizontal tool bar, not just in 10.04, it used to be in all previous versions. It waste vertical space in monitor. Windows done it perfectly with one horizontal task bar having everything. Why Ubuntu waste screen space … Continue reading →

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git: ‘svn’ is not a git-command. See ‘git –help’.

Posted on February 6, 2010 by admin

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

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Google Chrome Now Available for Linux

Posted on January 16, 2010 by admin

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.

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XPGnome – Make Ubuntu look like Windows XP

Posted on January 7, 2010 by admin

XPGnome theme can make ubuntu look like Microsoft Windows XP.

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Changing computer name in ubuntu

Posted on October 8, 2009 by admin

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.

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How to extract RAR files in Ubuntu

Posted on September 24, 2009 by admin

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

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Enable Apache Mode Rewrite in ubuntu

Posted on September 18, 2009 by admin

You need to run “a2enmod rewrite” to enable apache mod_rewrite. hon@hon-desktop:~/web$ sudo a2enmod rewrite Module rewrite already enabled hon@hon-desktop:~/web$ In my case it was already enabled, still .htaccess was not working. It was the default site, so i need to … Continue reading →

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Install festival tts in ubuntu

Posted on September 12, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 17, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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