1. Here’s how to to create a remote branch in git:: git push origin origin:refs/heads/my_branch … or even simpler and more straightforward: git branch my_branch # create branch locally git push origin my_branch # push it to server 2. To push your changes to the remote branch: git push origin my_branch 3. To delete the […]
To check your libc (glibc) version type “ls -l /lib/libc.” and hit TAB. This should expand the line into the name of your libc library file, e.g. something like /lib/libc.so.6 Umm… no, the .6 does not mean that your glibc version is 6, unfortunately it is a little more complicated than that 🙂 … but not […]
If you’ve installed Fedora Core 9 you won’t be able to play your MP3 audio files out of the box. I suppose some other Fedora versions also have this “feature”. I won’t go here into a lengthy explanation as to why exactly FC9 does not play mp3 – Fedora actually handles that quite good (the […]
This was something which I found to be quite annoying on the Xfce Desktop Environment version 4 (4.4.3), it probably is the same for some other Xfce versions too… The XFCE Window Manager defines the so called global Window shortcuts, meaning that when this key-combo shortcut is pressed, no matter where (from which application), the […]
On my newly installed Fedora box (I said “newly” but this may be a bit misleading as I installed FC9, which is an old distribution but I have to use it for compatibility reasons with other software…) I had the following problem: I had no sound (e.g. YouTube plays a clip and there is no […]
If you want to find the relationship between files on your system and RPM packages (which one owns/belongs-to which) then this page will be of help to you. 1. Contents of an RPM package 1.1.1. This RPM command will show you the contents of a package which is already installed on your system: rpm -ql […]
PROBLEM: The Linux init process gets an error that looks like this (in the stderr output): INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rc” Several things may cause this error but in my case it was happening because the rc script had #! /bin/sh on the first line, and /bin/sh was missing. SOLUTION: In /bin provide a link called […]
The below information was shamelessly copied, word for word, from http://mike.kruckenberg.com 🙂 Changing end-of-line Mode in Emacs (replaces ^M line return) Every now and then I run into this. I export CSV data from Excel and find that when trying to use it in other places the line-returns aren’t quite right and unix tools like […]
PROBLEM: On certain Linux distributions removable media (USB flash drives, CD’s,…) are auto-mounted by default and all users can read and write to them (if media is writeable of course). On others, inserting a removeable media results in an error message similar to Failed to mount “200GB Volume”, e.g. an error message from your file-manager […]
After installing the VirtualBox software from Oracle start it up. Depending on your distribution and window manager it will be in the “System’ start menu or it may be somewhere else. Create a new Virtual Machine (e.g. another Linux box with Fedora – select these from the ‘OS Type’ drop-down boxes). You may select an […]