Posted on June 13th, 2008 by linux
Sometimes you encounter situation when you need a perl module to support your program but perl module is not available from standard linux repositories. Installing perl module from source code is not always good idea so what would be the best is to create package for a particular module using dh-make-perl command. In my case [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2008 by linux
When documenting my server installation I needed to have a list of packages installed on my server. dpkg –get-selections is great help but it returns values/packages each on separate line including “installed” keyword. This command returns list of installed packages in the single block separated with single space:
dpkg –get-selections | awk ‘{ print $1; }’| [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by linux
Here is a small howto print to a PDF file using KDE and firefox. First we need to install cups PDF support:
apt-get install cups-pdf
Then navigate you with mouse to:
KDE -> Control Center -> Select Peripherals -> Printers
From here we need to add new printer click on:
ADD -> Add Printer/Class ( do not select Add [...]
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