1) Download the required font
2) Create the folder mkdir /home/<YOUR_USERNAME>/.fonts
3) Move the downloaded font to the folder “.fonts“
2) Create the folder mkdir /home/<YOUR_USERNAME>/.fonts
3) Move the downloaded font to the folder “.fonts“
Category Archives: Linux
Linux command install tasksel – ubuntu
sudo apt-get install tasksel
Set environment variables permanently – ubuntu linux
You can set it usinf the “explore” command
For eg : export some_var=some_value
list environment variable ubuntu linux
Just type the command “env”
The output will be
The output will be
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06
GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT=us
LANG=en_IN
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=1844
MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/gnome.mandatory.path
GDM_LANG=en_IN
Ubuntu 10.04 : Make Pidgin run at startup
Click System > Preferences > Start up Applications.Just click on the add button and fill the name and command fields with the value “pidgin”
and save the details .
How To Find Out Your Ubuntu Version
Just click System/About Ubuntu?
or
Got to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and type cat /etc/lsb-release
Then you could see the following
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS”
Find out current working directory of a process
Find out the process id ps aux | grep {process-name}
To find out current working directory of a PID 2234 pwdx pwdx
Output /home/<user-name>
Find out process id of a process – Linux
ps aux | grep <process-name>
Find out current working directory – Linux
pwd
/home/<user-name>
Command to unzip a zip archive – linux ubuntu
unzip pics.zip
This will extract compressed files in a ZIP archive