How to find the history of updated packages by apt-get or aptitude? The history is in log files of dpkg and apt: /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/apt/history.log /var/log/aptitude To check the recently installed packages: cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep ” install ” To list history of recently installed packages by apt-get: cat /var/log/apt/history.log | grep ” install ” To…
How to install the wireless driver in Linux Mint for HP Mini 110 Netbook? The bcmwl-kernel-source for Broadcom Linux STA driver works. You may need to connect the network first by the LAN cable or another wireless adapter. Open Control center -> System, Driver Management. After a while, it will ask you to select the…
How to manage Linux console screen by commands? When the screen will be blanked? Put the screen into powerdown mode or power off the screen? 2 tools are useful for managing the console screen on Linux: setterm – set terminal attributes.vbetool – run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state. When the screen will…
How to monitor temperatures of laptop on Linux? This works on Linux Mint: sudo aptitude install lm-sensors hddtemp For lm-sensors, first detect the sensors by: sudo sensors-detect To detect the temperature in the system: sudo sensors To detect the HDD (e.g. sda) temperature: sudo hddtemp /dev/sda An example of the output: [zma@mini:~]$ sudo sensors acpitz-virtual-0…
I find git diff output is not easy to read when the text file contains long lines that is long enough to exceeds the screen size. We may not forbid the using the long lines for all files. How to handle lone lines in git diff better? Two possible methods to make git diff with…
How to boot Linux Mint to the console by default? (that is, the run level 3). 2 methods introduced here to boot Linux Mint to console/command line. Method 1 (may only work for earlier releases; check method 2 below): set kernel option. Edit /etc/default/grub and add text to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text” Then, re-generate grub…
The video files copied from iPhone is rotated by 90 degree when they are played on Linux. How to rotate a .mov video from iPhone by 90 degree on Linux? Specifically: 1) Play the video by rotating 90 degree. 2) Edit the video by rotating 90 degree and save it. You may check Rotating Video…
How to install Adobe Reader on Linux Mint 17? First, add Canonical PPA repository sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner” Then, update apt cache and install Adobe Reader sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install acroread You can select “Yes” to set Adobe Reader as the default PDF viewer or “No” to not set it. E.Z.M.,…
How to un-trust a computer that I have trusted with iOS 7 device, such as iPhone? You can delete the Lockdown folder to reset the trust/un-trust status of iPhones. Apple provides tutorials for Max OS X and Windows at: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5335 (archived) . If you are using Linux, the Lockdown folder is: /var/lib/lockdown Answered by Lucy.
I installed Linux Mint 17 in the traditional BIOS mode. However, Windows 8.1 on my computer can only boot in the UEFI mode. I do not want to reinstall the Windows or erase it. How to turn a BIOS-based Linux Mint 17 installation to UEFI booting? You may refer https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting for some information.
How to find which package provides a file in Debian based releases, such as Linux Mint, Ubuntu? You can use `dpkg`: $ dpkg -S /path/to/the/file -S or –search is the option to make dpkg do a “search”: -S, –search filename-search-pattern… Search for a filename from installed packages. To search which package provides a command file…
How to find whether a package is installed on Linux Mint? For example, I would like to check whether ghostscript is installed. Using dpkg: dpkg -l List all available packages (installed and not installed): apt-cache pkgnames
How to install WordPress Buddy Press template? Themes for BuddyPress are available at:http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tags/buddypress Make sure that the theme tagged as “buddypress” is compatible with the BP/WP version activated in your server. As of BuddyPress 1.7, BuddyPress works with most any WordPress out of the box. BuddyPress 1.7 includes base template files that should fit into…
How to install ffmpeg on Linux Mint 17 Qiana? To install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and etc: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg Does anyone know why this was taken out of the main repositories? Linux Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu…
How to convert a video file in format as flv to mp4 with ffmpeg? You may use method from here: https://www.systutorials.com/3540/converting-video-files-for-ipod-iphone-ipad/ ffmpeg -i input.flv output.mp4 Or by specifying more details about how to handling the codecs: ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mp4 You may also add more options as you like. For more,…
How to run programs in different languages from Windows’ language? For example, some non-unicode programs in Chinese on English version of Windows will display some garbage characters. You can use the AppLocale util provided by Microsoft to run legacy applications without changing language of non-Unicode applications (system locale): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppLocale You may check this link for…
I’d like to force using of https on one of my site. How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache with mod_rewrite? You can put these lines to the .htaccess file in the directory from which you would like to redirect HTTPS to HTTP: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
How to set up the driver for an HP printer on Linux Mint or Ubuntu? First install the packages: sudo aptitude install hplip hplip-gui Then run sudo hp-setup and follow the GUI instructions to set up the printer.
I know that one can make a zip of the current branch by: git archive -o archive.zip HEAD However, at situations, one may want to clone a copy/snapshot of remote repository at a specific branch because: 1) The repository is large with long history and cloning the whole history takes too much time. 2) What…
How to install no-ip.com update client noip2 on Linux Mint 17? First, install the noip2 client: sudo su – cd /usr/local/src wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz tar xzf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz cd no-ip-2.1.9-1 make make install Then, generate the configuration file noip2 -C Last, make noip2 daemon run at reboot crontab -e Add this line to crontab: @reboot /usr/local/bin/noip2 I’ve…