. The flash player may not be installed automatically using firefox. While trying install firefox, you may get the error following error ” Firefox could not install this item because “install-0zr..rdf” (provided by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.”The Screeshot of error is provided. To fix this issue, you need to upgrade/install certain libraries using yum. I have mentioned the commands below.

Aug

cPanel icons missing on WHM

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Linux

cPanel icon missing, whm cpanel icon

Usually WHM allows you to login to the cPanel accounts from the “List Account” option. But sometimes you may not able see the cPanel icons which prevents you to login to the cPanel account as root.

FIX:-

Aug

How to install .deb files using dpkg

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Linux

.deb install, dpkg install, ubuntu package instal

Most of the Ubuntu users depend apt-get to get and install debian packages. Using apt-get application is the quickest way to find and install debian packages. The installation part is done by an application named dpkg. Dpkg doesn’t have to be used by apt-get, you can use it manually as well.

dpkg is a medium-level package manager for Debian

Aug

Openarena: FPS game for ubuntu users.

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Linux

fps game for ubuntu, Openarena, ubuntu games

I was on a search for a ‘BIG’ game that could be used on ubuntu desktop and my search ended up on ‘Openarena’. Openarena is a FPS (first-person shooter) game suitable to those above 17 due to violent and racy content. It can run on Linux, Mac OS X, and all 32-bit flavors of Windows that I know of (that supports

Jul

OpenVZ : Not able to SSH or enter into a VPS

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Home, Linux Tags

openvz, openVZ not able to login, Unable to open pty

While trying to SSH or enter into a VPS from the node, you may get the following error :

Unable to open pty: No such file or directory

Jul

Google Chrome for Linux : Download it now!

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Linux

chrome for linux, google browser, google chrom linux download, google chrome for linux, google linux browser

“Google Chrome browser for linux“, I am using it!

The google chrome browser, the light weight browser i have ever seen is now available for linux. But they have released only a in-progress build of Google Chrome for Linux. Google Chrome for Linux is released by Google for testing. I downloaded it and its my default browser now Luckily., it didnt crashed yet.

Google Chrome for Linux has the same look and feel as that was for the Windows. But the following significant chunks of functionality are known to be missing:

Jul

How to switch into ‘root’ user on an Ubuntu desktop

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Linux

sudo su -, switch to root, ubuntu root

Just an another simple tip for the Ubuntu desktop users.

Ubuntu wont allow you to login as root due to some security reasons. But we need the root privilage for ‘apt-get’, process restart etc. Most of the users use ‘sudo’ to execute these tasks, which will run the command with ‘root’ privilages. But you can simply switch into the root user by using the following command:

sudo su -

Jul

Content management systems : All you need to make an impressive online presense

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Linux

content management, online publishing tools

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.

CMS’ are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators’ manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. These concepts represent integrated and interdependent layers. There are various nomenclatures known in this area: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management and so on. The bottom line for these systems is managing content and publishing, with a workflow if required.