Text* Snippets: ubuntu code

first to find the big hex number
then to add it. Note the format of the command

xauth list
xauth add ubuntu/unix:0 . 8443108aff2df3cff0d91fa307ad3885

to firefox ubuntu administration by deckard on Jun 12, 2007

for various reasons (like installing vmware tools)

apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

to ubuntu linux administration by deckard on Jun 12, 2007

look up package names and contents via shell

apt-cache search <search string>

to ubuntu linux administration by deckard on Jun 09, 2007

// description of your code here

will give you a nice list of installed packages...

apt-get install apt-show-versions

apt-show-versions | sort

best way to remove all traces of them is

apt-get --purge remove packagename

(I got fancy and did apt-get --purge remove php5* which removed all of em)

to ubuntu linux adminstration by deckard on Jun 07, 2007