Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.

2012-07-07 1 min read Bash Linux

CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂

export FIGNORE=CVS:~:.o:.svn
bind 'set match-hidden-files off'
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Ubuntu setup – post installation script

2012-07-03 4 min read Bash
My iPhone apps as of February 2010
My iPhone apps as of February 2010 (Photo credit: dougbelshaw)

If you have done a new installation of Ubuntu or Fedora, then yuou know you have to search all kind of blogs to find out what all to install. So, here is a easier way to do that. Just run this script, it will install some applications which are mostly a “MUST” for all the installations. And the list of applications that are installed are :

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convert word document to html

2012-06-27 1 min read Fedora Linux

First install the required package:

sudo yum install wv

Description:

Description : Wv is a program that understands the Microsoft Word 6/7/8/9
binary file format and is able to convert Word
documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser.

And here is the list of the programs that this utility provides:

/usr/bin/wvAbw
/usr/bin/wvCleanLatex
/usr/bin/wvConvert
/usr/bin/wvDVI
/usr/bin/wvDocBook
/usr/bin/wvHtml
/usr/bin/wvLatex
/usr/bin/wvMime
/usr/bin/wvPDF
/usr/bin/wvPS
/usr/bin/wvRTF
/usr/bin/wvSummary
/usr/bin/wvText
/usr/bin/wvVersion
/usr/bin/wvWare
/usr/bin/wvWml

So, if you want to convert a doc file to html just do:

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tora installation on Fedora 17.

2012-06-22 1 min read Database Fedora

Here are the previous links on Tora:

Tora on F16

Tora on Fedora

And if you are interested in installing from source then you can always use this link:
http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/2012/02/06/tora-fedora-16-mysql-oracle/

 

And if you are interested in just installing it then you can always do:

rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc17.i686.rpm"
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rpmconf – Tool to handle rpmsave and rpmnew files

2012-06-18 1 min read Bash Fedora

Install the utility:

sudo yum install rpmconf

Description:

Description : This tool search for .rpmnew, .rpmsave and .rpmorig files and ask you what to do
with them:
Keep current version, place back old version, watch the diff or merge.

And finally run the utility:

sudo rpmconf -a

and if there is a conflict or rpmsave or rpmnew file, then you will see something like this:

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symlinks -delete all invalid soft links in Linux/Fedora

2012-06-12 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed :

sudo yum install symlinks

and here is the description:

Description : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.
Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks
which point to nonexistent files.  Symlinks can also automatically
convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.
Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining
symlinks on your system.

and the help for the same:

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unable to browse windows network with samba4

2012-05-27 2 min read Fedora Linux

I use Fedora 17 on my work laptop and thus need to connect to windows share sometimes. After I upgraded to Fedora 17 some time, I was unable to browse the windows network. I would get all kind of errors and warnings and tried everything that I knew about Samba to fix the issue. Tried searching through all the forums to figure out what was wrong but nothing helped. And suddenly today I resolved it and guess how:

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