Ubuntu

Chroot in Ubuntu

If you ever manage to damage your ubuntu install so badly that it won't boot (as I recently did when trying to remove the gnome GUI) then boot from a LiveCD and then open up a terminal.

Type the following…

The package vmware-server needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it

I recently tried installing a .deb package I had made by converting an rpm. Synaptic package manager however errored and since then won't open. Every time I started synaptic I was getting this error:

The package…

Retrieve Drive UUIDs in Ubuntu

One easy command to retrieve all drive UUIDs.


ls -lF…

Greasemonkey scripts won't update on Ubuntu

The usual reason for not being able to update the scripts is that your permissions are wrong in your Firefox folder. Your Greasemonkey scripts will be in your firefox folder. The default place for this is (please…

ZFS on Ubuntu

Installation on Ubuntu 9.04

Filip Brcic is kindly providing Ubuntu packages for zfs-fuse.

To install zfs-fuse add Filip Brcic's launchpad repo to a source list.

sudo nano…

Tell Ubuntu to avoid using SWAP partition with swappiness setting

By default Ubuntu will move data in RAM onto the swap file/partition on the hard disk long before it runs out of memory. It will pick data that isn't accessed often but this can still be an annoying slowdown on the…