Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
Published on October 18th, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 was released today. Here’s a few pictures of the upgrade process.
Change current user on Ubuntu
Published on July 18th, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu
Since the command “su” won’t work on Ubuntu, unless you change the configuration, you can use “sudo -s -u” to change the current user to the one specified in.
How to install any package in Ubuntu
Published on April 23rd, 2007 in Ubuntu
standard packages found in the repository (you can also use apt-get for this):
sudo aptitude search ABC (apt-cache search ABC)
sudo aptitude install ABC (sudo apt-get install ABC)
sudo aptitude remove ABC (sudo apt-get remove ABC)
.deb (watch out for unresolved dependencies!)
sudo dpkg -i ABC.deb
.rpm (use .deb packages preferably though)
sudo alien -i *.rpm
.tar.gz (requires sudo aptitude install checkinstall)
tar xzvf [...]
Cleaning up your Ubuntu Installation
Published on April 22nd, 2007 in Ubuntu
After upgrading my Ubuntu 6.10 installation to the newest 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) over a thousand packages were upgraded. So it’s obvious that there were left some dependencies which are not needed anymore. Sure everything still works, but I like to clean up things on Operating Systems I use productively. That’s why I wrote a script [...]
How to get VMWare to work under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Published on April 21st, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu
As many other ubuntu users I quickly upgraded my boxes to Ubuntu Feisty. But I soon realized, that VMWare did not work anymore, even though I tried to recompile its modules for the new kernel that came with feisty. After surfing the web and trying multiple solutions, I came up with this one, which seems [...]
KDevelop won’t compile project
Published on April 18th, 2007 in Linux, Ubuntu
KDevelop is a nice C++ IDE on Linux. As I installed it on my new Ubuntu box and wanted to run it, everything seemed fine, until I tried to compile a project.
If the following error message appears while trying to compile a KDevelop project:
make: aclocal: Command not found
make: *** [all] Error 127
*** Exited with status: [...]
Unable to configure VMWare on Ubuntu
Published on April 13th, 2007 in Linux, Other, Ubuntu
While trying to install and configure VMWare Workstation on my new Ubuntu Desktop, i received the following error message:
“None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler [...]
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Published on April 11th, 2007 in Ubuntu
Since I have completely switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu, (I was no longer able to mess around with my Gentoo installation, Ubuntu is just so much more stable right out of the box), I am eager to get my hands on the final release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). Ubuntu gets user-friendlier and more stable [...]
lightweight alternative to PHPMyAdmin
Published on March 6th, 2007 in Linux, Web
PHPMiniAdmin is an extremely small alternative to the big, heavy and sometimes slow PHPMyAdmin.
PHPMiniAdmin seems to incorporate only the most basic features, so it might not appeal to everyone. But certainly to those, who are feeling comfortable with SQL and who prefer speed over functionality.
Check out the screenshot below:
The projects homepage can be found here: [...]
How to create your own SSL Certificate
Published on February 27th, 2007 in Best of, Other, Ubuntu, Web
The openssl toolkit is typically used to generate an RSA Private Key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request). But it can also be used to generate self-signed certificates which can be used for testing purposes or internal usage.
Step 1: Generate a Private Key
The first step is to create your RSA Private Key. This key is [...]