Alias what a blessing.

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Kubuntu, Terminal on Aug 8th, 2008 | 0 comments

No not the TV show although the show wasn’t bad either LOL.

There are some commands I use allot and I do mean allot.

For instance

ssh madberry@example -v

what if I just had to type:

example

I can using the alias.  We can just add it to the .bashrc file or use(as they tell you in .bashrc) put all your aliases in the .bash_aliases.

Here is how we go about doing it.

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Install and search for packages with apt

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Apps, Kubuntu, Mini How To on Aug 5th, 2008 | 0 comments

“Mini How To” Install and search for packages with apt.

Looking for how to install packages bij the “point and click” method click here.

Let’s say you wanna install a package but you don’t know for sure if it’s in the repository’s.  Then you can use this Terminal command to do so:

We’ll search for firefox as an example.

apt-cache search firefox

As you can see this displays a list of all packages related to Firefox.

Now let’s install Firefox:

Here we have to use sudo or apt won’t work and tell you:

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