Most digital media comes in some sort of proprietary format or another; MP3, AAC, DVDs, MPEG, and so on. Ubuntu by default doesn’t include these codecs due to licensing issues. However, it’s quite simple to install the necessary codecs, which come in the Ubuntu Restricted Extras packages. To do so, open up a Terminal window […]
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Picasa 3.0 for Linux (beta) Instructions: Picasa is free photo software from Google. This version is Linux compatible. Picasa won’t delete your pictures or put them online without your permission. This is a preview of the upcoming release of Picasa 3 for Linux. We encourage you to try out this beta release and provide feedback […]
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$ kartook@H4C<3r:~/packagebuild$ […]
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 load the […]
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 […]
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
Server CORE : Use the Sconfig Utility to Install Windows PowerShell on Server Core ? The Server Configuration utility (Sconfig) provides a text-based menu system that makes it easy to do the following: * Configure domain or workgroup membership * Change a server’s name * Add a local Administrator account * Configure remote management features […]
There is a few software that will use the editor command to find out what text editor to use. Example commands will be dch to add a new .deb changelog entry, revision control softwares when prompting for a commit message … There is basically 2 ways for changing the default editor: * System wide * […]
Lightscreen is a simple tool to take screenshots of your desktop and applications in Microsoft Windows. Lightscreen allows you to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots. Once you install Lightscreen, it operates as a hidden process in the background. However, you can invoke the Lightscreen GUI via the System tray icon. Talking […]