Category: Ubuntu

  • Single command Ubuntu LAMP stack installation on Desktop Edition…..

    This used to be a pain in the butt. Lots of manual apt-get lines and config edits to get it to work. Weŕe talking about installing the LAMP stack onto a preexisting Ubuntu Desktop Edition installation. I used to do this backwards in the old days by installing the Server edition first (with LAMP) and…

  • Writing Moblin (and Ubuntu) USB images using dd in OSX

    I came across this problem this morning, while writing the newly downloaded moblin USB image file. The concept is straight forward, plugin a 1GB+ USB stick into a functioning Linux or Windows box, make sure the stick is not mounted and use dd to write the disk image to the stick. Under OSX however the…

  • Syncing Linux (Ubuntu) and Iphone/Ipod Touches with Firmware 2.x

    If you’re using Ubuntu and have recently upgraded your IpodTouch or Iphone to 2.x firmware, you might be interested in this detailed tutorial. It basically outlines how you can setup syncing under Ubuntu with your 2.x device. The guide assumes that you have jailbroken your ipod/iphone . There is also a nice section for older 1.x…

  • Sugar interface on a USB stick…..

    Thanks to Sugar Labs you can now have your Ubuntu 8.10 or Fedora 10 linux distributions with sugar on it…..Shweet :-).  Yep you heard right, go here and grab your OLPC XO inspired 1GB USB stick image and boot all those old PC’s into sugar. According to Walter Bender (the creator of Sugar OS) a…

  • Duplicate your Ubuntu Installation….

    As good as Ubuntu (and linux) are in general, once in a while you just get to a point where you need a reinstall. That’s when the realization kicks in that you’ve got far too many packages installed since the initial Ubuntu install. It’s okay, there is a way out. Make sure you have a…

  • Super Ubuntu save you time….

    If you’ve ever installed Ubuntu and started cursing right after because some piece of software you thought was in there wasn’t, then Super Ubuntu might be for you. It’s basically Ubuntu with a bunch of useful applications pre-installed. You even update through the standard Ubuntu methods. The only downside is that the distro is 32-bit…

  • How to mount CD/DVD images from command line under Linux

    Here are some quick CLI commands to get those CD/DVD images mounted under Linux (without having to burn them first). # ISOmount -t iso9660 -o loop,user file.iso /path/mount_directory # MDFmount imagen.mdf /path/mount_directory -o loop=/dev/loop0 # NRGmount -o loop,offset=307200 imagen.nrg /path/mount_directory

  • Basic APT commands

    Okay, now for a bit of CLI goodness. Here is a quick list of basic apt commands.  Debian and most derivatives (Ubuntu) use these for package maintenance.#searchapt-cache search packagename #package infoapt-cache show packagename #cleansudo apt-get cleansudo apt-get autoclean #old packages #checkapt-get check #get source codeapt-get source packagename #get depapt-get build-dep packagename #update/install/remove/upgradesudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get…

  • UNetbootin takes care of all your USB Linux installtion blues….

    I’d covered Fedora’s Live USB creator a while back. But for those of you wanting to install other flavours of linux on a USB stick (or a HD even), the process was lengthy and cumbersome. That was before UNetbootin, the Universal Netboot Installer. You see UNetbootin can be run from Linux or Windows and will enable you…

  • Transcode and stream DV to mpeg4 via firewire using VLC and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

    Well kids are you ready for todays lesson in transcoding DV video. So first you need a decent machine. I’m using a P4 2.4Ghz oldie that has Firewire on-board and am chewing up 50% CPU for NTSC encoding. Then you need to get Ubuntu 8.04 installed. Once that’s done use the following command to install…