How many times have you installed Linux, tweaked it to perfection with various applications, only to have something happen and you have to re-install. Or you get that machine up and running with all the goods and then want to re-create the system on another machine. In either of these situations, the last thing you [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Sep 12th, 2009
- Comments: 16
Create your own mobile Ubuntu repository with APTonCD
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 16th, 2009
- Comments: 11
Getting to Know Linux: Installing From Command Line
For users new to the Linux operating system, nothing beats installing applications with the graphical Add/Remove Software applications found in the main menu of your desktop. But sometimes that ever-so-user-friendly GUI isn’t an option. Once such instance would be a headless server with no graphical desktop. Or maybe you’ve found a particular applicaiton that is [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 22nd, 2008
- Comments: 12
Installing Linux applications with Aptitude
For those of you who like a little more power behind your tools you will certainly appreciate the Aptitude front-end for the apt package management system. Aptitude is based on the ncurses computer terminal library so you know it’s a pseudo-hybrid between console and gui. Aptitude has a powerful search system as well as an [...]
