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How Can We Help? Search Print What is a symbolic link? A symbolic link is a special file that points to another file on the system. When you access one of these files, it has a pathname stored inside it. Use this pathname to advance to the file or directory on the system represented by the pathname stored in the symbolic link. How to create a symbolic link? Create a symbolic link with...

How Can We Help? Search Print I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 and needed to have the RIGHT CLICK OPEN IN TERMINAL option enabled. eg. If you need to work in the desktop directory via the terminal and you don’t want to navigate to the directory via typing this application will come in handy.  To enable/install this follow the steps below. STEP 1 Make sure you are connected to the Internet STEP 2...

How Can We Help? Search Print This tutorial will guide you how to install Internet Explorer on UBUNTU Linux via IEs4Linux. IEs4Linux only contains Internet Explorer 5, 5.5 and 6. IEs4Linux comes in handy especially for Web Developers who need to test their web applications on Internet Explorer. NOTE: For security reasons only use IEs4Linux for development and not to surf the Internet. STEP 1 Open...

How Can We Help? Search Print Example: If you have a directory with 10 000 text files in it and you need to find a certain word in a certain file but you aren’t sure what the name of the file is. You can use the method described below to find the file with selected text within it. Answer: In the command line type the following command: grep -rni “Hello World” *.txt and press...

How Can We Help? Search Print I installed phpMyAdmin in Ubuntu 9.04 via apt-get install phpmyadmin but when I type  in the address bar in my Internet Browser the page is not found?  I have installed PHP, Apache2, mySql and have restarted Apache but still nothing happens when I type . Create a symbolic link in /etc/apache2/conf.d that points to/etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf Files included in...

How Can We Help? Search Print With this tutorial I assume that you know what Apache web server is and that you have PHP and Apache installed on your machine. Also ensure that you are able to serve web pages. NOTE: This has been tested on Ubuntu 9.04   Answer: Open your Terminal Window or the command line. Navigate to the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory with this command: cd...

How Can We Help? Search Print How to create Aliases in Ubuntu? If you have a command that you run all the time in Ubuntu like pwd to print your working directory, you can create an alias for that specific command. In otherwords a shorter version for the pwd command.   Open a Terminal Window (CLI = Command Line Interface) Type the command cd to take you to your home directory. Now you need to...

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In the File Browser (Graphical) press the key combination ctrl+h together in order to view all the hidden files and folders.
In the command line when listing directory contents (ls) use the option -a eg. ls -ato list all hidden files.  Files or folders that start with a . (dot)

How Can We Help? Search Print When loading Flash enabled websites in Firefox I get Flash Player problems? I’m running Firefox 3.0.13 on Ubuntu 9.04 Examples: When loading Google Analytics some flash features like the Dashboard, Visitors Overview and Map Overlay just load the whole time without any results displaying. Some sites eg. www.sterkinekor.co.za does not work properly in Firefox...

How Can We Help? Search Print We accomplish this by using the “mv” (move command) Example: File Example: {codecitation class=”brush: bash;”}mv old_file new_file{/codecitation} Directory Example: {codecitation class=”brush: bash;”}mv old_directory new_directory{/codecitation} NOTE: mv can move several files into a destination folder, or a single file...

How Can We Help? Search Print NOTE: Has been tested on Ubuntu 9.10 In Ubuntu open Synaptic Package Manager ‘System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager‘ Now we need to install 2 apps called alien and fakeroot alien – Convert and install rpm and other packages fakeroot – Gives a fake root environment To install them simply type alien in the Quick search box and...

How Can We Help? Search Print NOTE: Tested on Ubuntu 9.10 Open a new Terminal Window  Download the following file  using the wget command{codecitation class=”brush: bash;”}wget {/codecitation} Save the file in your Home Directory or any other Directory Give the file executable privelages by using the following command {codecitation class=”brush: bash;”}chmod +x...

How Can We Help? Search Print By using the find command we can search for files and directories using the command line. The find command uses a raw search to find files and directories. The usage is find [PATH] [OPTIONS][SEARCH CRITERIA] Example: find /home/ -name test The example above finds all files/directories within the home directory that contain the word test Below are different common...

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unzip zipFile.zip -d directory

unzip – list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
-d = An  optional  directory  to  which  to  extract files.
directory = The directory where to extract the files to
zipFile.zip = Your ZIP file