Debian Tips & Tutorials

Unoconv (converter between OpenOffice.org document formats): a commandline utility which can convert from any document format that OpenOffice can import to any document format it can export. Install Unoconv Debian apt-get install unoconv Ubuntu, Mint sudo apt-get install unoconv Start Open Office in headless mode soffice -headless -accept=”socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;” -nofirststartwizard doc to odt unoconv -c “socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext” [...]

A few days back I have got a laptop from one of my friend. Since I don’t have another pc other than my desktop my plan was to use this laptop for doing experiments. So I decided to install Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to test LTSP5. But the optical drive of lap was not working. My [...]

In this tutorial we can see how to compile and build the binary package of Linux kernel. The advantage of creating binary package is that you can install the kernel on multiple machines instead of compiling kernel in each and every machine. The kernel used is 2.6.28. Prerequisites: apt-get install libncurses5-dev gcc make linux-headers-`uname -r` g++ [...]

Here is an how to for booting GnewSense from usb drive. GNewSense is a complete Free Operating System and is recommended by Free Software Foundation (FSF). It is derived from Ubuntu. The current version is 2.2 as of writing this post. Since the proprietary components are removed from the Kernel (Linux) and the OS it [...]

Debian GNU/Linux Lenny released on 14th February. It comes with more than 25000 Free Software applications. In this post we can see how we can upgrade the existing installations of Debian Etch 4.0 (IT@School GNU/Linux 3.2/3.0) to Lenny. First of all open terminal application. I use Konsole. Switch to super user (root).