Tag Archives: linux

Find PPA for specific package

If you want to find out from which PPA a specific package was installed or what other PPAs hold it, you can use the following command: (found at superuser.com) Here you can see that the package mpg is in the PPA gmpc-trunk/mpd-trunk and also in the natty/universe repository. The installed version is that from the… Read More »

Samba not showing Symlinks

After an upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, all Samba shares were missing symlinks, esp. symlinks to directories outside the share. To enable these again, add the following lines into the [global] section of your /etc/samba/smb.conf: Then restart smbd and you should see the symlinks again.

Sync Package List between 2 PCs

To export a list of all installed packages, you can use the following command: But this will loose any {A} markers for automatically installed packages and therefore produce a lot of garbage when dependencies change. To export only manually installed packages, use aptitude like this: (More aptitude filterstrings can be found on their project page.)… Read More »

Citrix ICAClient

This plugin will work with browsers which support Netscape compatible plugins, e.g. Firefox or Opera. SSL error 61 This error means your certificate chain is broken or not “trusted”. Get certificates While the Windows clients download the certificates automatically, the Linux client doesn’t. You will need access to a Windows running Firefox or talk to… Read More »

Merge Video Files

To merge multiple (similar) video files into one big file, there are different ways. avimerge This only works with avi files. avimerge is part of the transcode-utils package. If the sound doesn’t match from the second file on, use the -c switch. mencoder This should also work with mpg videos. Install the mencoder package.

ACPI Events

If you wish to change the behavior upon pushing e.g. the power button, you can edit the config files located in /etc/acpi/events/. To disable the power button, you would edit the file powerbtn there and change the action line to:

Compiling Kismet

You need the following libraries to successfully compile Kismet: Install from PPA You can also install the latest version using aptitude from Festor’s HackTools PPA.

Install missing i386-libraries on 64bit systems

If you are on a 64bit system, you might sometimes stumple upon 32bit programs which need several libraries of which are no lib32-packages. A good example is the Amazon MP3 Downloader. You can now either search the missing libraries at packages.ubuntu.com or use a tool which does this for you: getlibs. You run it with… Read More »

Flashplugin not recognizing mouse clicks

If your flashplugin only recognizes the very first mouse click and then seems to ignore the mouse completely, just click somewhere outside the area where the flash script is (e.g. on the webpage background) and then flash will recognize the next click. Some more promising solutions are these: Flash Preferences unusable If your clicks onto… Read More »