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 know the dependencies and their dependencies of a package.When we make a query for dependencies of a package, apt-rdepends searches the APt and return the list […]
On several situation you will need to find out the version of ubuntu (debian) installed in a system you are using.For that open the command terminal and type: lsb_release -a ————————————————————————— The GNU/Linux Advanced Administration: In this ebook “The GNU/Linux Operating System”, the main contents are related with system administration. You will learn how to […]
You may have noticed the blanking of screen after an idle timeout. This may be annoying while you are watching a movie. So If you want to disable the X screen blanking that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer or …,Type this at terminal setterm -powersave off -blank 0 To make […]
Although Google Desktop is not the only search and indexing herrmamienta available on the web, it takes a large company behind it to make it very popular.Well, Linux version of this tool (which uses the same algorithms that a version for web) and are available packages for Debian 4, Fedora 6, Ubuntu 9.04, SUSE 10.1 […]
Create your own login screens in ubuntu.. Components of a GDM Theme A GDM Theme is basically composed by: * A background image* A screenshot to be displayed in the GDM Configuration* Icons (images for the icon bar)* An xml file, where the actual theme is defined. This file allows the declaration of frames, images, […]
Download the tar file from here.…and extract it…. You can see many image files, one c file, one Makefile and one bdf file.To create a usplash using this…just type at terminal…$ cd dipin-usplash2$ make Now you will get a dipin-usplash.so file. This is the usplash file. Now u can create your own usplash by editing […]