After power up my vmware virtual machines on the Ubuntu I have had a problems using arrow keys when my mouse pointer was captured by the console. Could no move at all and I had to use and Num pad on my keyboard to move around which was really annoying since I could not [...]
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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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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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