Due to increased ‘online security risks’ in past few years, Firewall is a mandatory application/software these days, for everybody. When you’re using ubuntu 11.10 (or any other Linux based operating system such as Debian, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Fedora etc) then you shouldn’t worry much about security because a packet filtering system called – ‘netfilter‘ is already there (shipped [...]
ppa:unity-team/staging After adding, pen the Update Manager, click ‘Check for Updates’, and proceed to install those you’re prompted to do. This can also be achieved via the Terminal by running: – sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-team/staging sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade All done? Restart your computer then begin enjoying Unity 5.0. It’s all gone wrong! Halp! [...]
What follows is a basic example of how a source package for a python script might look. While most of the packaging tutorials are a bit complex, they can really help if you hit a problem. That said, I first learned the basics of Debian packaging by simply looking at Debian packages. apt-get sourcesomething similar and [...]
Probably the most popular package managers are apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, and Software Center. There are others (Linux Mint has its own, and there are some designed for KDE), but these are the ones you’ll run into most often. apt-get is a simple command-line tool. It’s handy if you know the exact package name of what you [...]
