Install Boxee on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
Installing Boxee turns your computer into an incredable HTPC but the installation process is not as straight forward as they would have you believe for the 64-bit 9.10 karmic release. At the time of this post Boxee is only available for 32-bit Jaunty 9.10 release but it can be successfully installed with the following [...]
Install Linux development man pages in Ubuntu
By default Ubuntu doesn’t install the manual pages used for Linux software development which is an invaluable reference for any system developer. These man pages describe the Linux programming interface including Linux system calls as well as system library calls.
To install these man pages simply install the manpages-dev package.
$ sudo apt-get install manpages-dev
You can [...]
Install, upgrade, and remove RPM packages
RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. There are a variety of distributions besides Red Hat that use RPM to manage packages including Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, CentOS, and Yellow Dog Linux among others. RPM uses a database to keep track of what packages have been installed on the system and where they are located. This [...]