Linux : Rebuild deb package from installed files

Step 1 :

To rebuild Debian package (.deb) from an installation

kartook@H4C<3r:~$apt-get install dpkg-repack

Now here i am going to rebuild K3B from my Ubuntu 10.04

kartook@H4C<3r:~/packagebuild$ sudo dpkg-repack k3b dpkg-deb: warning: ‘./dpkg-repack-13038/DEBIAN/control’ contains user-defined field ‘Original-Maintainer’ dpkg-deb: building package `k3b’ in `./k3b_1.91.0~rc2-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb’. dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)

kartook@H4C<3r:~/packagebuild$ kartook@H4C<3r:~/packagebuild$ [...]

May 13th, 2010 | Category: Applications, Linux, Security, Unix | Leave a comment

Lunix : How to Install Nvidia Video Drivers In 10.04 Lucid Lynx ?

1. Open your terminal

kartook@H4C<3r:~$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

2. Next we need to blacklist “nouveau”. Do so by adding the following into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf with your favorite text editor.

About Nouveau

kartook@H4C<3r:~$ sudo blacklist nouvea

3. Install the latest official stable driver from the repository

kartook@H4C<3r:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

4. Next we’ll [...]

May 12th, 2010 | Category: Applications, Linux | Leave a comment

Linux : How To create RPM from Source

This is for the CentOS user out there. Sometimes when you try to search for rpm packages, the only thing that you find is the source file. I like to  create rpm file usingfrom source file:

1. save the source file(usually in tar.gz or tar.bz2 format) 2. extract the files-> tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz or [...]

May 12th, 2010 | Category: Applications, Linux, Unix | Leave a comment

Linux : How do you change login GDM image in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

This tutorial will explain How to change the boot splash screen image for 10.04

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow

Then logout, and you’ll see an Appearance window pop up. Change it to how you prefer it, then close it and login as usual.

When you have [...]

May 12th, 2010 | Category: Linux, Unix | 2 comments

Linux :How to upgrade ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

Hi ,

Today i did my ubuntu upgrade just small easy command ,ubuntu 9.10 installation to 10.04

the magic command is

sudo do-release-upgrade

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May 12th, 2010 | Category: Applications, Linux, Unix | Leave a comment
 
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