While “apt-get” and “aptitude” are fast ways of installing programs/packages, you can also use the Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Manager), a… Read More »Synaptic Package Manager: a GUI method for installing programs/packages
Aptitude is a terminal-based package manager that can be used instead of apt-get. Aptitude marks packages that are automatically installed and removes them when no… Read More »Aptitude: a terminal-based package manager
For this you required to generate your own personal set of private/public pair. ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you. On the… Read More »SSH login without password
If your build from source is successful, you can make a Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb) for future use: Install package tools: sudo apt-get install checkinstall… Read More »Create a .deb package from source files
Make sure you have all the necessary development tools (i.e. libraries, compilers, headers): sudo apt-get install build-essentialsudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` Note: “uname -r” lists… Read More »Installing a package from source
(Tar/GZip) archives end in “.tar.gz” and (Tar/Bzip2) archives end in “.tar.bz2”. Bzip2 is the newer, more efficient compression method. These files can generally be automatically… Read More »Handling (Tar/GZip) and (Tar/Bzip2) archives