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Adding packages to kubuntu - in particular, mozilla - Forums Linux

Adding packages to kubuntu - in particular, mozilla

Posted: 22 Oct 2006 03:47 PM PDT

mike sullivan wrote:
 

Only Kubuntu doesn't use synaptic - it comes with Adept. Start Adept
Package Manager, search for what you want, click install. If you like
synaptic better, go ahead and install it.... Software installation in any
ubuntu derivative is fairly simple.

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Means of saving bash_history regularly

Posted: 22 Oct 2006 09:42 AM PDT

On 2006-10-22, Unruh wrote: 

man bash:

If the histappend shell option is enabled (see the description
of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below), the lines are
appended to the history file, otherwise the history file is
overwritten. If HISTFILE is unset, or if the history file is
unwritable, the history is not saved.

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vim - sed search/replace compatibility

Posted: 21 Oct 2006 01:02 PM PDT

com wrote: 

Escape the backslashes using a character class.
[\]
See if that helps.

Linux version for dual booting?

Posted: 21 Oct 2006 07:58 AM PDT

"Michael DeBusk" <net> wrote in
message news:s_r_g.10487$news.pas.earthlink.net... 

I tried Ubuntu 6.06 DT i386 on the laptop in question. The X
server crashed. Appearently the video subsystem is "to new"
for any of the drivers. ATI Radeon Mobility 200M.

later....

hibernating (S4?) with no swap

Posted: 20 Oct 2006 03:37 PM PDT

In article <uni-freiburg.de>,
LEE Sau Dan <uni-freiburg.de> wrote: 

FWIW, it unmounted all the filesystems (TYVM, swsusp) then aborted on 2.6.18.
 

Well, the main reason I would use suspend-to-disk is so it _wouldn't_
use battery.
 

Thanks. I'll look into suspend2. Any idea where I find that, or is
Google my friend here?

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best distro to install on CF card?

Posted: 20 Oct 2006 08:51 AM PDT

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:44:07 +0000, Peter Lynch wrote:
 

How much RAM do you have currently in the box? You don't need much, if
all you're going to do is run a very limited -- no X, shell only -- task
specific system. Something like that would only require a few megs of RAM
for the system ram disk. And by a few, I mean 4 megs or so.

I have a little floppy "rescue" system that loads a fairly complete system
(shell only) on a 4 meg ramdisk, but only uses 2.6 megs of it, leaving
ample room for logs, temporary files, etc.

Stef

setup network problem

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 08:29 PM PDT

WeOn Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:43:39 -0500, net wrote:
 

Well just in case someone else has this problem I will continue here.
After sneaking around the side with a usb to LAN adaptor I have
updated the box and installed nvidia drivers for my video
card(turbo6200c). What makes this interesting is now lspci now show
the Ethernet. I still can not however activate it. It says cable
unplugged ?. This is a little progress however and I will take what I
can get.

simple Q again

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 01:41 PM PDT

On 18 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, Swingingming wrote:
 

I suspect that is a typo - should be a '.tgz' file, which is a tarball
compressed with gzip.
 

Find a command line, and run the command

tar -ztf /path/to/name.of.tgz

making the obvious corrections. Look at the file names it is reporting.
Do they begin with a directory name

[compton ~]$ tar -ztf downloads/arping-2.01.tgz | column
arping-2.01/ arping-2.01/openbsd.h
arping-2.01/Makefile arping-2.01/solaris.h
arping-2.01/LICENSE arping-2.01/arping-2/
arping-2.01/arping.8 arping-2.01/arping-2/install-sh
arping-2.01/arping.c arping-2.01/arping-2/configure.in
arping-2.01/README arping-2.01/arping-2/arping.c
arping-2.01/arping.yodl arping-2.01/arping-scan-net.sh
arping-2.01/freebsd.h
[compton ~]$

In this example, there is a directory name (arping-2.01/) and this means
that the contents of the tarball will be placed in a directory named
arping-2.01 in "this" directory. On the other hand, it might have an
absolute pathname (/usr/src/arping-2.01/ for example) which means that
the files will be placed somewhere else. Lastly, it may be lacking a
directory name, and all you see is filenames, like this

Makefile arping.yodl arping-2/install-sh
LICENSE freebsd.h arping-2/configure.in
arping.8 openbsd.h arping-2/arping.c
arping.c solaris.h arping-scan-net.sh
README arping-2/

which means it will drop the files "right here" (which gets messy). In
this latter case, make a directory (mkdir directory_name), and move the
tarball into that directory (mv tarball.tgz directory_name), and change
into that directory (cd directory_name).

Execute the command 'tar -zxf tarball.tgz' (making the obvious correction)
and then change to the directory where the "new" files are located. Run the
command 'ls' to see what you have, and then start reading - paying attention
to the files in all CAPITAL letters - like README.
 

Unfortunately, that depends entirely on the instructions that are found
in the tarball. Start with the README and see what it tells you to do.
Make sure this source is meant for your distribution and release. Pay
attention to the kernel version numbers (run 'uname -a' to see what you
have now). You will probably also need the development packages, including
the compiler and GNU 'make'. These are not installed by default, so you
may need to install them before going further.

You may find additional help in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva
but I'd suggest you post from your ISP's news server RATHER THAN GOOGLE
because some otherwise helpful people don't see posts from groups.google.com.

Old guy

Unable to boot linux

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 12:04 PM PDT

Kiran Kumar wrote: 

In my other post I meant created a Logical partition as with parted or some
other tool and then install on that logical partition. It reads like you tried
to create the linux partitions by hand. You do not do that.

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How to fix bootfiles installed with VMWare?

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 09:28 AM PDT


Allen Kistler wrote: 

That's what i found out t. Downloaded the rescue-cd, used chroot and
reinstalled the kernel. And then it added scsi-hdd support:)

Booting Linux from an external USB drive

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 07:20 AM PDT

Mike wrote: 
Try using the flash drive in a USB-1.1 port. I don't care if it's
slower, it's usually a working solution.


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hi, simple question

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 01:16 AM PDT

Good point. I was assuming that, in the setup stage, he was probably
operating as su. For a long time after I started learning Linux, I
couldn't see a reason to be anything but root. ; )



On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:54:03 +1000, faeychild <com>
wrote:
 

New Install Needing Partition Help

Posted: 17 Oct 2006 01:53 PM PDT

Im at that point where Im wanting more security on my system, like
partitioning /home, but I do not fully understand partitioning. I have
read and read over the past four days so I have pieced together
something that I think is correct.

I was told not to put the /root account on a primay and only /boot on a
primary. I dont know if that is correct or not. But I did it the other
way - now I wonder if I have to, or need to, change it.

FC5 Install Hang: ACPI: Assume Root Bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0

Posted: 17 Oct 2006 07:14 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Jim Garrison <com>: 
 
 
[..]
 
 
 
 

Really? Iirc the same kernel parameter were mentioned in the URL
I posted...
 
 
 
[..]
 

Glad to hear!

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Busted Debian install?

Posted: 16 Oct 2006 10:54 PM PDT

***** charles <com>: 

I believe it's TAB.
 

.... In which case, neither solution helps you. Both grub and lilo are
happening before the system is up, so there's no network.


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Program to track changes and roll them back.

Posted: 16 Oct 2006 06:47 PM PDT

John Hasler wrote:
 

Because I compiled them last week? :)

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acpid and poweroff

Posted: 08 Oct 2006 11:22 AM PDT

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:22:25 -0000, Martin Fenelon
<invalid> wrote: 
The hardware usually forces power off when the button is held for 5
seconds.


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