This quick guide is made for home user who are not familiar with official installation of firefox5. Open terminal and run the following commands sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable This will install the repository of firefox5 sudo apt-get update This will update your package manager with the new firefox5 sudo apt-get install firefox Tadaaaa….. now close your …
Category: Linux
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Aug 05
How to destroy a Confidential File completely in linux (Shred)
Some times you may worry if you accidentally delete a file. then after a Google you would be satisfied with the tools like getdataback, recovermyfile, foremost etc. Consider a situation that you have borrowed a pendrive from your friend or someone else and you copied some important or confidential files from your office and moved it to your PC or notebook …
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Feb 01
How to Back Up and Restore a MySQL Database
As you know your website data is stored in your database server. To prevent disaster, backup your data regularly is a must for you and every website owner. There are many ways to backup MySQL data, one of them is using mysqldump to dump your MySQL data to a file. Dump all MySQL Databases mysqldump …
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Jan 22
Execute PHP Script from command line in Ubuntu
Some times there is a great requirement to execute some codes of PHP immediately, but for that we have to format the output according to HTML format since generally PHP scripts are executed using LAMP. For example if we want to fetch some data from a table of RDB using PHP and need to see …
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Jan 22
How to Install and Use TeamViewer on Linux
TeamViewer is one of the most popular remote desktop software because it is really easy to use and it has support for different operating systems. Although its main function is to remote control a desktop for technical support, it also has file sharing and presentation features. If you are using Linux, you can easily install …
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Jan 22
How to Crack Password-protected Zip Files Using Linux
In case you or your friend has forgotten the password of your password-protected .zip file that may contain important documents, music, there is really no need to worry as there are plenty of password crackers available out there. If you are using Linux, I highly recommend you download and use FCrackZip. FCrackZip is a simple, …
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Jan 22
How to Open/Extract RAR files in Ubuntu Linux
How to Open/Extract RAR files in Ubuntu Linux If you happen to download a file that contains .rar extension, you will have to unpack or extract it first in order to view or use its content since it is a compressed or archived file. RAR is a proprietary documented archive file format that supports data …
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Jan 12
Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password
Reset MySQL Root Password in Linux: You can reset forgotten MySQL database server password with following five easy steps in ubuntu. Step 1: Stop the MySQL server process. /etc/init.d/mysql stop Step 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password. mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables Step 3: Connect …
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Dec 28
Enable .htaccess in Apache2
At first You should define, mod_rewrite is a part of Apache server that can rewrite requested urls on the fly. To enable in Ubuntu, you just need to write this command in terminal sudo a2enmod rewrite Then edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default Find the following Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all and change …
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Dec 04
How do I find out If Running Kernel Is 32 Or 64 Bit?
Target Audience: Beginners of Linux/Unix Users Many beginners of Linux/Unix users might struggle or uncertain when they download softwares for Linux/Unix to choose correct software according to its kernel ie. 32 bit or 64 bit. The uname command gives you the solution. Execute the following command in terminal: $ uname -a If the result contains …
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