Open up a Super User Terminal Mode (from the Applications menu | System Tools | Terminal Mode – Super User) First, we need to add the repository where all the cool backports and upgrades are. At the command prompt, type: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line at the bottom: deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib [...]

Ok, this morning I was reading about KompoZer, a WYSIWYG web page editor for Linux. I”m currently using Quanta, but it’s all manual entering of HTML/PHP/etc. KompoZer Looked promising, with a Dreamweaver style interface, so I went into my Synaptic package manager and searched for it. Nadda. Not in my list of available apps from [...]

I’ve been testing all the various cd ripper packages on my Debian Lenny Distro of Linux but none of them would rip to mp3′s. They would rip ok to OGG files, but I can’t play those on my cellphone’s mp3 player. As you know from my other tutorial, that it’s a breeze to load your [...]

Ever wanted to see what your network traffic is doing and if there are any background transmissions slowing down your internet? But you don’t want to be a network admin to be able to figure out the stats from log files and traceroutes, right! Well, check this out – Etherape, a visual network traffic tool [...]

After upgrading to Lenny, everything was really smooth and in order. The only package that didn’t upgrade automatically was Quanta. So from the command line, I did a quick install of Quanta and good to go. Well, sort of. After the upgrade, I rebooted to find that my sound was broken. Up in the top [...]

The directions below are a bit outdated with the latest version of Ubuntu. You can still disable IPv6 in Firefox per the instructions below, but if you’re on Ubuntu (or any variety of Ubuntu), there is no longer the alias file. Instead, use sysctl to disable IPv6 without rebooting by typing this in Terminal (you [...]

Yesterday I decided to take my debian system from Etch to Lenny, stable to testing. Quite a few of the programs I use had some major upgrades that I wanted to get. So, I planned to take an hour or two and convert to Lenny. It took forever! But, from that experience I learned alot, [...]

Note: I updated this article for the Lenny distro. I’m using the source repositories in the US. Here is the most basic, stable sources.list that I’m using for Linux Debian the Lenny distro on my laptop. I edit this file by going to a Terminal as SuperUser and entering the command: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list This [...]