I upgraded the dist to Hardy Heron, the Ubuntu 8.04. And my experience with it so far has been very satisfactory. Its much more stable now. I found various stuff already bundled which previously I had to explicitly install. For me the good things bundled… Firefox 3 Hardy provides Firefox [ Read More ]
If you have installed ruby using apt-get or if you have not mentioned the configuration option for openssl while installing from source, you can expect openssl will not work with ruby. Here is the solution for the same… Step 1 Install gcc and make(if you don’t have already on your [ Read More ]
In a fresh Ubuntu, not having the locales setup, it shows warning every time while installing any software/library and while stopping/restarting as well. You can setup the required locales easily. The following example shows the simple steps to setup the en_IN UTF-8 locale. Step 1 Edit or Create the file [ Read More ]
It was ruining all my mood and concentration when i was trying some sample ruby code in irb and again and again i had to retype the things because the arrow keys were not working there. I searched the problem on net and found that i need to have readline [ Read More ]
While installing RMagick on Linux, if you are getting errors like this “GraphicsMagick-config… no configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. …”, below is the solution for this error. RMagick requires ImageMagick and which further requires loads of dependencies already available to get installed and work [ Read More ]
Working on command line SSH is quite natural but FTP is a bit heck. I found it hard to work on command line FTP for my godaddy account specially for removing the remote files and uploading the directories. I found the gFTP very much useful GUI based Ftp client. You [ Read More ]
Hi everybody, I have moved fully on Ubuntu FeistyFawn There are lots of cool features in it like …. Run Application(the application launcher, hotkey alt+f2), the DesktopBar(full web and system search including files and folders, hotkey alt+f3) … and the TomBoy notes. Use ctl+l to open explorer in specific location
