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How to turn Off the Shutdown/Restart confirmation dialog box in Ubuntu 14.04

By default, Ubuntu is configured to always prompt you with a confirmation dialog box with two choices when you want to shut down or restart your computer. The same thing happens when you log out of your account or lock


Lubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) – A faster experience

Desktop view of Lubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr): Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu . Lubuntu uses the minimal desktop LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), and a selection


Ubuntu: How to drop a MySql database

Login as MySQL root or admin user: $ mysql -u root -p Now lets drop database ‘otrs’ using below command: mysql> DROP DATABASE otrs; Lets create the same database again using below command: mysql> CREATE DATABASE otrs; once done, close


Install Google Chrome in Ubuntu

Install Google Chrome in Ubuntu Google chrome is very light weight and fast web browser. It is developed by Google. First add the google chrome repository in our system. Run following commands as root (sudo -s) Now update apt cache


Installing nslookup in Ubuntu

Today i tried to run nslookup on a Ubuntu VPS It was Ubuntu 12.10 To find which package provides nslookup command, use apt-cache search We found 2 packages that is related to nslookup. First one is what we need. Second


MySQL access from command line on Ubuntu

First connect to your Ubuntu server using ssh and run below command It will give you a password prompt as follow: Enter root password there and press enter key, then it will be connected successfully. It will show below output: To


Install TeamViewer on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit

Latest Ubuntu 14.04 have something called Multiarch. That means, you can run 32 bit binary in a 64 bit OS. Atleast that is what i understand 🙂 You can read more about Multiarch at https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch So you need to install


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


Uninstall GUI from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my development machine. I don’t want GUI, i could download Ubuntu Server ISO and install it, but i have ISO for Ubuntu Desktop, so i decided to install Ubuntu normally, then un-install GUI. First


How to uninstall asterisk on Ubuntu

Lets get list of packages installed by asterisk To uninstall a package, you need to use So, lets first remove asterisk package. In most cause, it will remove all dependency. If not, check with dpkg -l and un install remaining