Do you get lots of annoying crash reports on Ubuntu?.. well Apport is system tool which intercepts system crashes and reports them to Ubuntu. I’m sure that it is great for the developers – however it can be really annoying if you get the same error appearing all the time. So, you can easily disable … Read more
We just had a problem with our DHCP server and there seems to be another dhcp server on the network. To find this I used Wireshark on my Ubuntu machine to find the problem. 1 – Install wireshark 2 – Launch wireshark with permissions to read the network interfaces. You can either do this by … Read more
If you need to remove all the old kernels which were not currently being used to free up some space on the boot partition then this will do it for you.
The package ‘ia32-libs-gtk’ has been removed in Ubuntu 13.10 (I have no idea why). When you try and install it you get the error “Package ‘ia32-libs-gtk’ has no installation candidate”. It seems that most people need this ia32-libs-gtk for installing or running Adobe Air. I have found the solution is: This got Adobe Air working … Read more
I have made a new set of instructions for Installing Balsamiq Mockups on Ubuntu 13.10 because it it is slightly different from installing it on Ubuntu 13.04. Step 1 – Download Adobe Air – http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. Step 2: Make the installer excutable. Step 3: Try running the installer. Step 4: If your computer is 64bit then … Read more
You can batch rename files in Ubuntu using the “rename” command. It should be installed by default – so no need to apt-get install. The command is quite simple: For example renaming: google_marker_green.png google_marker_blue.png etc… To: map_marker_green.png map_market_blue.png etc… Hope this helps someone.
If you want to convert an eps to pdf then a really good tool is the obviously named epstopdf. To install this you need install the texlive-font-utils package:
Once you have over three Ubuntu servers or desktops to manage it can be really useful to have a tool to help keep all their packages up to date. Put simply, you can’t keep logging into to each computer, checking and installing updates manually. I am not talking about configuring Ubuntu in the first place … Read more
You can install Balsamiq Mockup on Linux / Ubuntu but Balasmiq don’t provide good instructions. I have no idea why they don’t spend a little time and write documentation properly. Anyhow, here is how I installed Balsamiq on my Ubuntu 13.04 laptop. If you are looking for Instructions for installing Balsamuq Mockups for Ubuntu 13.10 … Read more
I’m just starting to use Ansible to automate the configuration of some of our servers. Therefore, I need to stop sudo asking for a password. You need to edit /etc/sudoers . However, you can’t do this with your usual text editor. You need to use visudo sudo visudo To add a your user add the … Read more