General :: Adding Programs That Were Not Preinstalled
May 28, 2010
I have always had to use windows etc, of course this means I have become accustomed to the way the programs are automatically installed etc... so my question is:
Once I have found appropriate software which I would like to add to my computer, (which is Linux Compatible)... what are the steps, in the simplest terms to start using it?
To confirm, I have got to the stage where the program is on the computer but as no "window" pops up... I am fairly lost to get it from the completed downloads to actually start using it... is it an option like extract? Could you give me the basic steps.
I installed an application named Specto for monitoring websites and im trying to launch this on boot.i got XFCE4 and went into Application Autostart in the Session and Startup... and i cant seem to find out where to point Specto, is it in the /usr/share/applications or not cause i tried adding it from there and it wont launch on start... anyone got a rundown on this? trying to understand it but i just dont coming from windows. Not sure where applications are going at all and the file system is just a mess compared to windows so i have no control on what and where to look.Also Specto does not show up in task manager and in the Session tab of Sessions and Startup... why?
I'm trying to create a liveCD/USB for use of myself and my family. The idea is to set up the LiveCD to look like their used to seeing it. I know I can just copy the homedirectory but I wanted to do it via script so new user accounts could also have the common bells and whistles we use.So really I have two questions.1. Is it possible to add programs to the Gnome Tool Bar from command line? aka via a script2. Is it possible to modify the default panel template so new users get my changes?
I need a list of all the packages that are on a new ubuntu install. This is for a script I am trying to write.Does any one know where I can get this without doing a clean install and running dpkg -l?P.s. even better would be being able to find out if a package was on the pc when it was a clean install.
I bought a pc with ubuntu 9.10 pre-installed today. Unfortunately there's a problem with the network connection, i.e. I don't have any. The mb is a Foxconn A74ML series with onboard LAN. I've switched cables with another PC and it didn't have any effect. The other PC is still connected to the internet and the new one is still not connected. How I can/should do to get a connection?
I just got a new Toshiba Satellite 64bit laptop with 4bg of ram and a 640gb hard drive, I want to dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Links and I had the guys at Best Buy make me a partition so that if something went wrong with the partition it would possibly be on them. the issue I'm running into is that I can't seem to figure out how to boot to the "S" partition on my hard drive when installing Lucid Links via a USB key.
I am trying to install Fedora on my computer but I am getting a kernel panic at liveCD boot after boot menu. It occurs to me for F13 and F14 (all x64, F14 x86 seems to boot fine but I'm trying to host a x64 guest OS on it so I need to get the x64 version to work)
My system specs: Dual Opteron 265 4GB RAM Asus K8N-DL (nVidia nForce Pro 2000, BIOS 1010)
I also tried to install F14 in some other computer (which worked flawlessly) and put the HDD into the computer in question, which gave me the same kernel panic.
When configuring certain programs for compilation from source it's required to include path to required libraries/packages. I don't know how to obtain that information. For example, how do I know the installation prefix for openssl on my system? It's not in the default directory (/usr/local/openssl).
i found this but i dont know how to do it for the repo that im using
it says to add this to the /etc/yum.conf file but how do i do it for rpmfusion.org? what do i have to change to the following lines? or is there another way
I'd like to add another network card to my linux box. I've plugged in the hardware and rebooted, but I do not see a second network config file under network-scripts. Also, if I hit ifconfig -a, I only see one network listing. How do I proceed?
I start/stop lots of new instances as I'm learning to use Amazon EC2. Every temporary instance is added to the known_hosts file. Is this ever a problem for others who use EC2 a lot?
I'd like to tell ssh to skip this step anytime I connect to amazonaws.com. Is there a way to do that in the config? I'm using Linux & openssh.
I'm seeing on my Fedora 15 box. I want to add the superuser to a group called, say, thisgroup.thisgroup is absent. Surprisingly, when I thought of editing /etc/group, root was present there!Anyone on why groups didn't show my new addition?
I just installed nagios to a Cent 5.4 box. Everything is working so far except I want to add a plugin I found on nagios exchange. The file has a .pl extension. I am unsure how to add the plugin to the rest of nagios. Do I need to add it to a nagios folder and then define it. If I just try to run the pl file I get a error mesg. I am unsure if the error is caused by system misconfig or because the plugin is not installed. The plugin is check_dayime.pl and the error I get is Can't locate Date/Parse.pm Perl seems to be working as I can run simple perl scripts and perl -v spits out v 5.8.8
I have a fairly long list of data that I am trying to put into a math program (maple) but before I can do that I need to edit the format of the data such that at the end of every 25th line I add a comma. I would prefer a solution that uses vi, but if that's impossible sed would be fine also (or awk).
I'm trying to add a plugin to Pidgin, but I'm not really shure how to do it... I downloaded the binairy as a shared dll (.so) and copied it to the pidgin root folder (/usr/lib/pidgin/)... I was kinda hoping that would be sufficient, but (after restarting Pidgin) I still don't see the new plugin in the plugins-list. What am I doing wrong, or what should I do next?
I'm trying to output two certain fields of a very large text file to 2 very small text files. Then take those files and add all the lines together to come up with a total from each file (two totals).
Breakdown: Put 0 in a text file to be drawn by respective while loops for math later
Output last 60 integers to a file for total A (new integer every minute) Output last 60 integers to a file for total B (new integer every minute)
The two while loops are supposed to be adding the lines together. The echo commands at the end are for testing purposes, just to see the output. However, when I run this, I get the output of
Code:
0 0
Which is obviously not what it's supposed to be. Is there a more efficient way to do this or am I missing something in the script that would reset the values to "0"?
