unable to run package setup for sublime text

After installing sublime text, we must be able to open text files with it. Right click on a text file and you must see the option "open with sublime text". In case you don't , click Open with other applications and you should see Sublime text opti...

To check if a given package is installed in Debian / Ubuntu, type

dpkg -s <package-name>

To get a neater output use dpkg-query which accepts wildcards as well.

dpkg-query -l <package-name>

In Redhat / Fedora / CentOS use the foll...

when the file names were actually in japaneese, IE by default will not converting the links from Japanese text to unicode URL format i.e %20. Here is the fix that required

<a href="<%= product.product_image.url) %> ">SOME FILE NAME</a>
CHANGE...

To get formatted results for select statements use \G as a suffix for the query.

select * from table_name\G

In ubuntu, you have a variety of window managers to choose from. Though Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Unity as the default you can switch back to Gnome, or choose other managers like Cinnamon.

If you want to know, which window manager you are running c...

grep -rnw 'directory' -e "text-to-search"

-r is recursive, -n is line number and -w stands match the whole word.

grep --include={*.c,*.h} -rnw 'directory' -e "pattern"

This will only search through the files which have .c or .h...

To copy a folder in the remote server to your local machine,

scp -r username@IPaddres:/remote/directory/path /local/folder/

In case you wish to copy in your current local directory

scp -r username@IPaddres:/remote/directory/path/ .

Use following command and answer YES to enable dynamic updates:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf

Do a system restart after that.

To use Ack, make sure you have Perl installed and run the following commands in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install ack
sudo apt-get install ack-grep

Now you can use ack-grep command to search for matches in the files

ack-grep -i some-text
#...

For Chromium browser versions greater than 34, to use flash one must install Pepper flash.

For Ubuntu 14.04 or newer, run

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status 
# to see what version of...