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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


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


Install Asterisk In Ubuntu

Asterisk is an open source toolkit for building communications applications. Asterisk is a tool that enables PBX ( Private Branch Exchange)  integration. Login to ssh and run following command. Type Y when you are prompted with the Do you want to continue


Install PHP 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.x

To install PHP 5.5.x on Ubuntu, add PPA To install PHP 5, run For updating existing version of PHP, run PHP Version before upgrade After Upgrade XCache is exta, i installed it with After PHP Upgrade.


List all installed packages in ubuntu

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


Things i don’t like in Ubuntu 10.04

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


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

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


Google Chrome Now Available for Linux

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.


XPGnome – Make Ubuntu look like Windows XP

XPGnome theme can make ubuntu look like Microsoft Windows XP.