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Apache/MYSQL Problem

Basically, I get this error in my scripts: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/login/includes/db.php on line 10 I have uncommented extension:mysql.so I dont know why its not working, restarted everything aswell. I am running on ubuntu 32 bit. Apache/MYSQL is installed with full permissions. Here is m...

What's the difference between piping elements or specifying them as arguments in a Perl one-liner?

While learning Perl I am also learning Linux (Ubuntu), so it is kinda fire-hose sipping time around here. What is the difference between: find . -type f | perl -nle '... #aka yada yada' and perl -nle '... # same yada yada' `find . -type f` The first passes the file NAMES to Perl and the second passes the file CONTENTS it seems. ...

Difference between API and ABI

I am new to linux system programming and I came across API and ABI while reading Linux System Programming. Definition of API : An API defines the interfaces by which one piece of software communicates with another at the source level. Definition of ABI : Whereas an API defines a source interface, an ABI defines the low...

select * from foo (100 000 rows) takes 4 seconds, is this normal ?

I have postgres 8.4 installed on ubuntu server with 4 GB Ram and Intel E5504 2Ghz I've created one table create table foo ( id serial primary key, fname varchar(30), lname varchar(30) ) the insert of 10 000 rows takes about 4 seconds first time and 1 second after but the select of 100 000 rows takes 4 seconds always, select * from...

problem with libnet install

when i install libnet by sudo apt-get install libnet1, the program can not find libnet.h and I also can not find it at /usr/local/include or /usr/include. so i download the libnet and make it, but I get the errors make -C lib/ lib make[1]: Entering director `/home/liuqiang/workspace/libnet/lib' gcc -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused -Wstrict...

Codeblock won't run my program, I get sh: filepath: Permission Denied Ubuntu 10.04

So I'm trying to get this program to run, but code blocks throws me this error when I try to run it. sh: : Permission Denied. I'm pretty much 100% noob, so links to figure out how to fix it or educational stuff on the issue would be great for learning I think, but any ideas would be helpful really. :) ...

Ubuntu livecd hangs - unable to access my laptop

My Acer Aspire Laptop is unbootable. I'm trying to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04.1. Boot options accessible OK via F2. In fact, it still leads me into the olg grub2 menu, but I can't use any of the options because of corrupted installations on the various partitions (hence my wish to reinstall). Any type of LiveCD hangs in the middle of the ...

Colors with unix command "watch"?

Some commands that I use display colors, but when I use them with watch the colors disappears: watch -n 1 node file.js Is it possible to have the colors back on somehow? ...

Drupal: GD Image Filtering Low Quality / Poor > Performance

I'm getting this message in my Drupal installation: GD Image Filtering Low Quality / Poor Performance The installed version of PHP GD does not support image filtering(desaturate, blur, negate, etc). It was probably compiled using the official GD libraries from http://www.libgd.org instead of the GD library bundled...

sqlite3-ruby gem can't find sqlite3.h on ubuntu

Trying to get Rails up on ubuntu, and I’m having trouble installing sqlite3-ruby – it apparently can’t find sqlite3.h. All the references I can find to the error suggest the problem is either: sqlite3 headers aren’t installed, or make can’t find them. It looks to me like I’ve solved both those issues and I’m still seeing the same problem...

How do I find out the value to set the java_runtime_dir variable?

One of my Java projects requires setting up a variable java_runtime_dir. On Ubuntu, how do I find this directory? Is it the path to the java executable? ...

How to create a autorun file in linux and execute a shell file ?

Hi, How to create a autorun file in linux which is similar to autorun.inf in Windows in order to execute a shell file ie Following are the requirment 1.Autorun the installer file ./example.sh When CD is mounted onto the system . ...

Getting eclipse c++ set up on linux?

I downloaded the c++ version of eclipse from the eclipse website. This installed then when i ran the basic hello world code, it wouldn't compile. What else do i need to install to get c++ compiling on eclipse? I thought linux already had what it needed for c++ building/running? Ive googled around but the advice is for older versions of ...

opengl es 2.0 on linux

I would like to develop openGLES 2.0 apps on my ubuntu machine. I could not find any libraries/emulators that support ES 2.0 yet. Any suggestions? ...

How to substitue character matches with trailing characters from the same text line?

I'm using pdftotext to convert Spanish language text. Characters with accents or tildes are output in a systematic way that requires further conversion. Accents and tildes appear in the converted text in the correct position but without the letter. The letter almost always appears at the end of the output line. When it doesn't, I can...

help! apt-get erorr, after I trying install 'sun-java6-jdk' and jre unsuccessfully.

I try to install jdk and jre by using 'apt-get' command, but something wrong occured: ...... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: sun-java6-bin: Depends: sun-java6-jre (= 6.2...

Install R packages from binary in Ubuntu Lucid

I've installed R in Ubuntu Lucid with the command sudo aptitude install r-base When I try to "install.packages" it seems to download source and then spend ages compiling it. How can I get it to just download and install the binaries, like I'm used to on Windows? Is there any need to compile the packages myself? I'm running insi...

Ubuntu packages needed to compile Python 2.7

I've tried to compile Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 10.4, but got the following error message after running make: Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found: _bsddb bsddb185 sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name. Wha...

Is there a way to know the creation time of a file in ubuntu?

i am using ubuntu and want to know the creation time of a file even when it gets modified or accessed ? ...

gcc switches - what do these do?

I am new with using gcc and so I have a couple of questions. What do the following switches accomplish: gcc -v -lm -lfftw3 code.c I know that lfftw3 is an .h file used with code.c but why is it part of the command? I couldn't find out what -lm does in my search. What does it do? I think I found out -v causes gcc to display program...