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.
UNP: Now extract any archives without any worries
Many of us may know how to extract a .Tar.gz file. But how many of us know how to extract a .bz2, .lz, etc files. Some extra option…
apt-rdepends: How to know the dependencies of a package in Ubuntu
I am sure that this might have happened to you also, when you tried to install a package, and then a message showed "Failed dependencies".Now use apt-rdepends to…
Fix ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx black screen on bootup issue
You can face this issue in two conditions.1. Those who have installed ubuntu 10.04 might encountered this problem. The screen goes blank just after grub (may be after…
How to play video dvd in Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
Install the libdvdcss library.# sudo su -# apt-get install libdvdcss2# apt-get install libdvdread4# cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/# ./install-css.shIf it says that the package is not found then try…
GNU Screen: a free virtual terminal multiplexer
GNU Screen is a free virtual terminal multiplexer that allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. Persistence…
How to install Stable Open Office 3.2 in ubuntu 10,04 Lucid Lynx
PLEASE TRY THE METHOD TWO FIRST. METHOD 1 Download the installation package archive of Open Office from the below links. 32 bit US English 64 bit US English…
How to Enable/Disable vertical and horizontal scrolling using touchpad in ubuntu
Ubuntu provides configuration of the most common touchpad options in System > Preferences > Mouse Below the some common options you would like to enable under the Touchpad…
How to increase the priority of a running process in Linux
Kernel decides how much processor time is required for a process based on the nice value. Possible nice value range is: -20 to 20. A process that has…
How to make Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Multimedia Ready
In Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are activated by default. For installing Multimedia files you need to add medibuntu repositories. Run the following…
Upgrading to 10.04 Lucid Lynx from Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
To upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 on a desktop system 1. Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box. 2. Update Manager should…
How to view the performance details of individual CPUs in the top command
You can view the performance details of each CPUs of your machine in the top command by pressing 1 (number one) while the top command is running.one). $…
Resolve Skype video chat (web cam) issue in ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
Problems using WebCam in Skype. I installed Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bits). After installing, i found that the color webcam display looked ''green''. I had faced the…