Most tutorials online show how to install PEAR by doing this:
sudo apt-get install php-pear
This installs version 1.6.1. It works great because it's super easy! My problem is that I want to install PHPUnit and it requires PEAR version 1.8.1 so my install of PHPUnit failed. So how do I install a newer version of PEAR on Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit on an AMD. It regularly hangs for a few minutes at a time when some of the processes's CPU usage % goes into 'disk sleep'. During that time I can't start new programs and most of the programs on the desktop become unresponsive.
I would rather it didn't hang and my applications remained reliably responsive. Why does this happen and how can I stop it?
I work in an environment wherein files are exchanged over email which are then processed into databases.
In Windows, mapping a network drive and storing files directly to a folder in the network drive from Firefox/Chrome downloads is a breeze.
How to achieve the same in Ubuntu? I don't see the SFTP'ed drive/directory as options in Firefox- Downloads setup.
Thanks in advance!
Can I dual boot ubuntu with on a inspiron 1720 (it is running windows 7).
One issue is I don't have space on the c:\ drive, but other partitions have space.
Will that cause any issues?
This is just to play and learn with, and I don't want to ruin my main windows install doing this.
I don't think my laptop is powerful enough for a virtualbox install (only 2gb ram).
I want to write code in Dev C++ so that when i execute in Ubuntu 8 , it clones my windows 7 from D: partition to its child partitions E:,F: ...
i have made my partitions of equal sizes and i have tested by manualy using ntfsclone ,so their will be no problem in cloning.
this is part of kiosk system and i hope you understand what i am upto
Some reference or help will be appreciated
thanks
I'm trying to use Skype with Ubuntu Karmic and I just don't understand how to configure Pulseaudio properly. The previous version of Skype allowed me to talk through and hear the voice on my USB phone and the ringing sounds through my laptop speaker. I'm not able to do this with the new version (2.1.0.47).
On my Ubuntu server, when I do everything now I do it as "root" user.
So for example, logging into ftp filezilla, I enter "root" as username...
Is this the way to do it, or should I create a users group and add priveliges to the users in that group?
Don't know if I should create a new user or not, it works with root just fine, but I don't want any security flaws...
Thanks
I want to restart ssh or sshd but I get this error:
qqqq@Matrix-Server:/$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop
sudo: /etc/init.d/ssh: command not found
qqqq@Matrix-Server:/$
Do I need to install ssh or sshd or does it come with Ubuntu?
How do I enable/disable a stick pointing device in Ubuntu (9.10)? How can I configure clicking and scrolling with the stick pointer? (I can't click with the stick and scroll the page.)
I have a now non-bootable install of Ubuntu. What files do I need to copy to backup all of the MySQL databases (including database users and permissions)?
I need to build an server (Ubuntu 9.10 server) to host source control (subversion) from my house. What are the minimum specs (processor and ram) to do this with good performance? I'll need to buy some new parts from newegg and just need enough to get by. It may also serve as a file server for other things in the future, but nothing intensive like media streaming.
I've been trying to find a way to run a torrent client strictly through a VPN. I am running Ubuntu 9.10, and use Ktorrent. I can connect to vpn.itshidden.com but I am worried about the connection dropping if I'm away from my computer. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a small media server at home which has software raid and a gigabit link to the rest of my network.
For some reason though, I only get ~10MB/s transfers when copying to/from the server.
How can I benchmark network throughput (Windows 7 desktop <- Ubuntu server) and hard disk performance to try and identify where my bottleneck might be?
I can click the "movie player" from the GUI of Ubuntu, but how could I know the corresponding command line cmd. I want to run the movie player from commmand line.
Many thanks.
In my Ubuntu 8.04 'Other' menu, it has 'OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime', 'Sun Java 5.0 Runtime' , 'Sun Java 6 Runtime'.
Can you please tell me where are these actually installed?
I can only fine 1, the OpenJDK :
$ which java
/usr/bin/java
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b11)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 1.6.0_0-b11, mixed mode)
How can I find the others?
Thank you.
I have a few Ubuntu servers (8.10, 9.10) that is set to automatically install security updates. Some times these updates requires a restart of the system, and this string is shown in motd:
*** System restart required ***
To get a notice about these, I plan to write a Nagios test to monitor if the server is in need of a reboot. So, my question:
Is there a better way than parsing /etc/motd to find out if a reboot is needed?
Problem
Retrospect is a backup system that my organization uses, but I can not find support for my Ubuntu 10.04 64bit desktop.
What I have tried (but did not work)
download the Redhat version and attempt to convert to deb
wget http://download.dantz.com/archives/Linux_Client-7_6_100.rpm
sudo alien Linux_Client-7_6_100.rpm
The Restrospect user forum has this thread, which provides an i386 .deb file for installing Retrospect
Question
Is there a way to install this on my system?
I am running Top to monitor my server performance and 2 of my java processes show virtual memory of upto 800MB-1GB. Is that a bad thing?
What does virtual memory mean? And oh btw, I have swap of 1GB and it shoes 0% used. So I am confused.
Java process = 1 Tomcat server + my own java deamon
Server = Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
In 10.10 upstart is being used instead of sysvinit.
It's possible to remove annoying upstart services which you do not want by removing the appropriate file in /etc/init/blah.conf
However, this seems a heavy handed approach. How do you correctly configure upstart to be able to selectively turn these services on and off via the command line?
As a practical example, the answers listed here to turn gdm off using rcconf no longer work:
How do I prevent GDM from running at boot on Ubuntu?
I am looking for a guide on how to set up a local home server that will also be used as a web server. I have an old desktop with Ubuntu 12.10 and wish for this to be used as my central web and local server. I also have multiple Windows 7 systems at home that I wish to be part of this network and a wireless router. Can someone provide me with assistance on where to start (perhaps just the home network) or refer me to a guide on how to do this?