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When trying to compile something from source in Linux, there may be lots of dependencies missing. Running the ./configure command will only tell you one missing dependency. Then you must run ./configure again, install another missing dependency, run it again and so on. However, you can make ./configure tell you everything that it’s missing or [...]

You see cool themes on almost all screenshot of Ubuntu all over the internet but don’t know how to do it. No worries, it can be done in no time. A much cooler way to handle this: using Emerald. Emerald needs Compiz to run and you can control the window borders, look and feel. You [...]

To see a list of packages taking up most space on your system, run the following command in a terminal: 1dpkg-query –show –showformat=’${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n’ | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk ‘{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}’ If you only want to see the 10 biggest packages, use the tail -n [...]

There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree. 1sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a since this command would take a lot of time to process (~1 hour) depending on your [...]

This tutorial shows how you can install the Adobe Flash plugin 10 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop. Although this sounds quite trivial, there are a few problems along the way, especially if Flash 9 is already installed.

Starting with Ubuntu Karmic, Grub2 is used (for clean installs for now), so THIS how-to on recovering the GRUB no longer works for the new GRUB2. But recovering GRUB2 (after breaking the GRUB2 or installing Windows – which breaks GRUB2, etc.) is just as easy. Here is what you need to do Note: This tutorial [...]

On my work computer, most of the ports are blocked, meaning I cannot use a Bittorrent client. I can, however, use a remote Bittorrent client, and then I use the steps described in this article to synchronize the remote Bittorrent download folder with a local folder. Using this, I can basically use a Bittorrent client [...]

This is a script found via a Reddit user (cozzyd), it allows you to upload images to Imgur.com via right click. This is only available in Unix. To use it, make sure you have nautilus-actions, zenity and curl installed. In Ubuntu, install them using this command:

I used to resize my pictures very quickly in Windows XP. I downloaded an addon that included the option to resize my pictures by adding the command to the right-click menu. I find this is also available in Ubuntu and I can now just right click on an image file and do to job.

I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP EliteBook 6930p Intel 64bits but find it can’t go into hibernate. These are steps I tool to get it working. Because if there is no swap file, linux can’t go into hibernation, for that reason, I firstly checked if the system swap files were mounted properly. This [...]