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If you have an Ubuntu installation, and want to check what version it is, you have a number of options.
One of the methods is to run
more /etc/issue
This will return something like this:
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
But this isn’t the best way.
You need to use uname command, which prints system information including kernel version and whether kernel [...]

Minitube is a native YouTube client for Linux and Mac OS X. The really useful part about Minitube is that it does not require Flash Player.
The application allows you to watch the movies in full screen and very important: it requires no installation; but you do need Qt version >= 4.5 and the Phonon libraries [...]

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 failed, [...]

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 can [...]

To see a list of packages taking up most space on your system, run the following command in a terminal:

dpkg-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 10 command, [...]

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.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a
since this command would take a lot of time to process (~1 hour) depending on your hardware in [...]

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.

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