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Upgrade Complete

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

I finished up all the upgrades to my home PC putting me on Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Unfortunately none of the auto-magical upgrade tools provided by Canonical worked for me, so all my upgrades were done via cli, using aptitude. Mostly this means I had to repeatedly run “sudo aptitude dist-upgrade”, interspersed with removing/installing specific […]

Tags: compiz, Gutsty, Kubuntu, Upgrade

Upgrade Begins!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

I’ve been running Kubuntu 6.06 LTS as my main OS on my home PC since it was released. Along the way, I’ve upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 and Amarok 1.4.3 and installed a variety of packages from unofficial sources. When I Edgy 6.10 was first released I looked into upgrading, but held off. This was due […]

Tags: 6.06LTS, 6.10, Dapper, Edgy, Kubuntu, Upgrade

Linux CLI Tip

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Quickie, Software

Sometimes when you’re staring the bash prompt, you want to be able to see if a specific program is currently running. There are a couple of ways to do this; generally I run: ps –ef | grep ProgramName However I once saw a tip for doing something similar with top but I lost the link […]

Tags: linux, tips

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