Install PhantomJS under Ubuntu

This card explains how to install RubyMine for the first time. If you want to upgrade an existing RubyMine installation (after legacy install) to a newer version, see How to upgrade RubyMine.

Option A (new way)...

First install Node.js / npm.

Then you can install Bower through npm:

sudo npm install -g bower

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby

DeaDBeeF is one of the better music players for Linux.

You can find installation instructions here.

I recommend install Node.js using nvm. This way you can have multiple Node versions in your ~/.nvm. You also won't need to install global packages with sudo anymore.

Node via nvm will automatically bring npm. yarn will automatically be availa...

We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come with 6 months of support. If there is really no other way, it's possible to install packages from later Ubuntu re...

Use the PDF toolkit:

sudo apt-get install pdftk

To rotate page 1 by 90 degrees clockwise:

pdftk in.pdf cat 1E output out.pdf    # old pdftk
pdftk in.pdf cat 1east output out....

Instead of using this hack you might want to use MariaDB 10.x which can work with both old and new apps.

An alternative could be to use the MySQL Docker image which ...

The Ubuntu Documentation on LaTeX says, that the packages tetex are no longer supported. You can install the alternative texlive (380 MB) via apt-get.

sudo apt-get install texlive

Rbenv won't compile REE 2011.03 properly on Ubuntu 12.04, failing with an error in tcmalloc.cc.

If you want to keep tcmalloc functionality, you can do it like this:

1. Open ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/share/ruby-build/ree-1.8.7-2011.03
2. Re...