Category: Linux

Install Win32Codecs in Linux

Win32Codecs is a collection of important codes to play videos in linux Download http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2 Extract into /usr/lib/codecs/

Mount ISO Images

Mounting ISO Images in Linux mount -t iso9660 -o loop <Image_File> <Mount_Point> How to Mount ISO/MDF Images in Linux

Install Recoll

Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux. It is based on the very strong Xapian backend, for…

Installing Perl Modules

Install Perl modules on a linux system – must be connected to the net perl -MCPAN -e shell If CPAN…

Compile and Install LAMP Server from Source – PHP5, Apache2, MySQL5

MySQL ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/mysql –localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql –with-mysqld-user=mysql –with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysql.sock –without-comment –without-debug –without-bench make make install cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf chown root:sys /etc/my.cnf chmod 644…

Hardware Profile

OS: Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Default run level: 5 Language: en_US.UTF-8 Platform: i686 BogoMIPS: 5401.97 CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD CPU…

Remove an existing Kernel

The final numbers(2.6.20.6) is the version of you kernel. You can get this using uname -r (for the current kernel)…

Sharing an Internet Connection from A Linux System using IPTables

To setup internet connection sharing in Linux system using IPTables Enable IP forwarding Run as root sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 To…

Installing MS Core Fonts on Linux(Fedora)

Download the MS Core Fonts Smart Package File wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec Make sure that the rpm-build and cabextract packages are installed:…

Yum Options

Using yum command usage: yum [options] < upgrade, install, update, info, search > Use the -y option to bypass the…