Notes, fixes and guides.
Sixteen years of working notes — Linux and networking, Django and Laravel deployment, SwiftUI, AWS. Written down mostly so I can find them again.
awk: Find and Replace text
Syntax awk 'Program' Input-File1 Input-File2 ... awk -f PROGRAM-FILE Input-File1 Input-File2 ...If no Input-File is specified then `awk' applies the Program to "standard input", (piped output of some…
Dock applications
Avant Window Manager, Cairo Dock, and Wbar are dock-like applications for Ubuntu Linux. A dock represents running programs as icons at the bottom of the screen (as is…
Convert PDF files to JPEG, TIFF and more..
Use ImageMagic's convert program to convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.To install…
KernelCheck: kernel compiling process as easy as the click of a button
KernelCheck is a graphical user interface program designed to make the kernel-compiling process as easy as the click of a button. A kernel is the base of any…
Internet Explorer 6 in linux ( ubuntu 9.04)
Internet Explorer 6 can function under Wine, albeit imperfectly. For most purposes, Firefox can be used (with the User Agent Switcher plugin) to mimic Internet Explorer, but for…
Eye Candy Applications: your os will look great
Eye Candy Applications refer to the decoration of the graphical user interface. These can be add-on icons, themes, wallpapers, 3-D effects, etc. Gnome Eye-Candy Resources Gnome Look has…
alias: replace your lengthy commands with shorter ones
Create an alias, aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as the first word of a simple command. Syntax alias [-p]…
Synaptic Package Manager: a GUI method for installing programs/packages
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 GUI method for…
Aptitude: a terminal-based package manager
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 packages depend on…
SSH login without password
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 user’s home directory,…
Create a .deb package from source files
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 Rebuild package using…
Installing a package from source
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…