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How to install linux in Ubuntu/Linux?

Joys of Programming — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:56:29 +0000

This package installs all the needed infrstracture to get crashdumps from your running system. If you are experiencing kernel crashes that cannot be debugged normally (because the problem is infrequent or panic’s the system in such a way as to make information gathering impossible), then you can install this package to automatically enable capture of [...]

tee: Direct output to standard output and File

Joys of Programming — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:15:15 +0000

With linux pipes, you can direct the output of one program as an input to the other. But using pipes, you can only direct the output to another program. But if you wish to direct the output to the standard output as well as to a file, you can still use tee. Take for example, [...]

How to set System Time using NTP?

Joys of Programming — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:40:22 +0000

NTP is helpful to synchronize system time of computer over a network. This is very useful if you have multiple computers and you require all the computers to have uniform time. You can start the NTP server in one of the machines and synchronize the time across all the machines using this server. This is [...]

How to install KDE in Ubuntu?

Joys of Programming — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:04:35 +0000

Ubuntu by default has the GNOME desktop. But if you want to use KDE, you must Install Kubuntu. There are two ways by which you can do this. Replace Ubuntu with Kubuntu. Install Kubuntu within Ubuntu The second option is the best one because you can experiment with both GNOME and KDE. Let’s explore how [...]

How to install apache in Ubuntu?

Joys of Programming — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:44:40 +0000

Apache can be installed in Linux using source. It can be easily installed in Ubuntu using the following command But after installation, you can verify that in the browser. Enter http://localhost/. If everything is fine, the page can be displayed with no connection errors. To start/restart apache or To stop the apache server

How to install maven in Linux?

Joys of Programming — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:54:49 +0000

Installing maven in Ubuntu is as simple as executing the following command Note that you must be connected to the internet to execute the command

How to install log4cpp from sources?

Joys of Programming — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:03:15 +0000

log4cpp is used for logging purposes in C++. To install log4cpp in Linux is as simple as installing some simple packages like liblog4cpp5 and liblog4cpp5-dev. But if you want to install log4cpp from sources, you need to follow the following procedures. Using these steps, you can easily install log4cpp in Mac and Linux (or any [...]

find vs locate: Save your time

Joys of Programming — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:56:40 +0000

Both the commands: find and locate serve the same purposes- find file names. Then which one is a better option to search for files. But before moving on to telling the difference, let me tell you how locate command works The working of locate command. locate makes use of a database for its proper execution. [...]

XML programming in Linux

Joys of Programming — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:52:51 +0000

For a detailed tutorial on XML programming, check the libxml tutorial. To start XML programming in Ubuntu, you must have the following packages in your system libxml2 libxml2-dev libxml2-doc libxml2-utils To install these packages, Once you install these packages, you must check the path where the libxml2 header files are present You must make use [...]

How to install missing pthread manpages in Ubuntu?

Joys of Programming — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:33:30 +0000

If you want to start programming in Ubuntu, one of the major requirement is to install the man pages. To start pthread programming in Ubuntu, you must require the pthread man pages. If you check any pthread man page in a fresh Ubuntu system, you may encounter the following errors To deal with this issue, [...]