Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Getting (compiling) the latest version of Beagle Indexing Service on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I couldn’t find pre-compiled packages (.deb) for the latest version of Beagle (0.3.9), so I thought about compiling it myself, I did the following: Downloaded the new source files from http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page (beagle and libbeagle) and extracted the files. Opened a … Continue reading →

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An Ubuntu Resource Treasure: Ubuntu PPA

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Ever tried installing packages that weren’t built for your version of Ubuntu? I’ve tried that HELL lot of times!The solution was in front of my eyes, but seems I was blind or something :S; It’s Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive): … Continue reading →

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How to force remove an erroneous package in Ubuntu

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

If things get messy and you weren’t able to remove it using the package management tool (apt-get or aptitude), then you can manually remove the package: Open /var/lib/dpkg/status as root, “sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status” and search for your package and remove … Continue reading →

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Terminal Terminal Terminal Terminal :)

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik
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Type The Command Once, Execute in Multiple Terminals: keyboardcast

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

“sudo apt-get install keyboardcast”, nothing more to say 🙂

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