Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu’

Adding a ppa in Ubuntu

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PPAs (Personal Package Archive) provide additional resources. They are small repositories you can add to get some special content. You can add them with Bash: Lets make an example: If you want to install Clipgrab, you add the repository first: Then you have to update your sources: Now you can install clipgrab the usual way: [...]

Getting Hardware Information in Ubuntu

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I’m using Ubuntu now for many years, but I always have to look the commands for retrieving hardware information up. Now I will not Google any longer but search in my own little cheat sheet. I guess most commands will work in every Linux distribution, but I tried it only in Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Maybe you [...]

Converting Files with Linux

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The following tipps work under a Linux terminal and were tested with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I guess they will also work with other systems, as the programs are available for them. If you know some further file conversions, please let me know. I am also very interested in Web based conversions. Image Files If you [...]