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How To Install Spotify In Ubuntu

posted on April 5, 2013 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Follow this guide and you’ll get to enjoy Spotify’s Linux client. Note that it’s a preview release and is unsupported. Create a new source file for the Spotify repository. # sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list Add the following line into the source file. Add Spotify’s public key so that you can verify Spotify’s packages. sudo apt-key adv [...]

How to set the date and time in Archlinux

posted on January 21, 2013 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Quickly set the current date and time in Archlinux. 1. Check the current time. [root@atom ~]# timedatectl status Local time: Mon 2013-01-21 08:57:21 MYT Universal time: Mon 2013-01-21 00:57:21 UTC RTC time: Mon 2013-01-21 00:57:21 Timezone: Asia/Kuala_Lumpur (MYT, +0800) NTP enabled: no NTP synchronized: no RTC in local TZ: no DST active: n/a 2. Set [...]

Linux How to change user UID and GID

posted on January 15, 2013 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

I was running Debian for sometime and in Debian the UID starts at 1000. Now I moved to CentOS 6 and the UID starts from 500. Simply changing the UID/GID seemed like an quick way to get my file permission back in sync. Here’s how to easily change the UID and GID for a user [...]

How to install Google Chrome on Linux Mint 13

posted on August 6, 2012 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Here’s how to install Google Chrome on Linux Mint 12 “Maya”. 1. Download the signing key. wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add – 2. Download the install package. Beta or Stable Beta, wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb Stable, wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 3. Install the Google Chrome package. This will also automatic add the Google Chrome repositories [...]

The Linux Command Line a book for the Linux beginner

posted on July 26, 2012 in eBooks, Linux with 0 Comments

New to Linux? Need a good beginner book to be your companion? The Linux Command Line by “William E. Shotts, Jr.” , that’s the book you need to get. The book’s 522 pages will familiarize you to the command line and the many commands that you will use in the future. Download the free PDF (CC) here or [...]

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