Notes, fixes and guides.
Sixteen years of working notes on Linux and networking, Django and Laravel deployment, SwiftUI and AWS. Written down mostly so I can find them again.
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…
Handling (Tar/GZip) and (Tar/Bzip2) archives
(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 extracted by merely…
Install Remove and Reinstall/Reconfigure/Repair .deb packages
Debian (.deb) packages are the packages that are used in Ubuntu. You can install any .deb package in your system. .deb files can generally be installed from your…
Manage firewall in ubuntu 9.04 jaunty
Network communications go through "channels" called ports. You can restrict which ports are available ("open") for network communications, creating a barricade to unwanted network intrusion…
How to add repository keys in ubuntu
Download the gpg keys for the repositories and automatically add them to your repository keyring: Example: To obtain and add the Medibuntu repository key: wget --quiet…