Just threw together a very simplistic shell script that will: 1. Add the Virtualbox repository to /etc/apt/sources.list and will automatically build it by pulling the “Codename” variable from ‘lsb_release’. 2. Download and install the GPG key associated with the Virtualbox repository. 3. Perform an ‘apt-get update’ and install Virtualbox with no prompts. You can checkout … Read more
As the Ubuntu’s new tag line says “It’s time for a change.”, indeed a lot of change has been implemented to the operating system, applications and the interface. There are few which you will find it interesting and useful and while few others might annoy you because of a sudden change. I never liked Ubuntu … Read more
Here is how you can compile the mother of all editors on Ubuntu 10.04 from source: 1. Obtain the source archive for Emacs from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ 2. Open a Terminal in Ubuntu and type: A. sudo apt-get install build-essential libxpm-dev libgif-dev libtiff4-dev B. This will install the necessary packages to compile Emacs. 3. Extract the Emacs … Read more
Put together a couple of simple shell scripts that will automatically download the latest deb stable release for Ubuntu/Debian and installing it via dpkg. Below are the two scripts for both 32 and 64 bit architectures. You could easily drop these in /etc/cron.daily to have nightly builds done. I386(32 Bit) Script X64(64 Bit) Script