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Terms you often see in Ubuntu

Today's blog will be on Terms which we  often see while using Ubuntu but we usually ignore them as they are not of our use and doesn't bother us with anything. Terms which will be discussed today will be: purge saucy yannubuntu IGN HIT GET PPA launchpad i386 amd64 x86_64 Backports Purge , purge is a package that is used to remove applications completely and removing all the instances of it. We can do that by using one of the following commmands: > sudo apt-get purge > sudo apt-get --purge remove Whether they should or shouldn't both exist is perhaps a debating point. However - they are absolutely identical. You can also check that by going through the man page of apt-get. Saucy is basically Saucy Salamander who provides two images for ubuntu where one is the desktop version, the desktop image allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. Second is the server image, t

Directory Sturucture of Linux

Hello Readers, This blog was supposed to be on Web Development but is on Directory Structure of Linux because of a user request. Today we'll be looking deep down in the hierarchy of Linux Directories. First let's list all the directories which are present in a Linux based Operating System. Few of the directories varies from system to system which we'll not discuss like lost+found and few more. So lets look at the basic and required directories. This Hierarchy is formed under FileSystem Hierarchy Standards (F.H.S.). In total we'll discuss a total of 16 Directories which are as follows: /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /lib /media /mnt /opt /sbin /srv /tmp /usr /var /root /proc These are the 16 directories which are present in the most important directory .i.e ' / ' which is the root directory not the one mentioned above this ' / ' directory contains all the directories mentioned above. Now talking the directories mentioned above:-:  

Installing and Uninstalling packages from source

Hello Readers, Today I'll tell you about installing packages in Ubuntu using the config file and the .tar of the package. Firstly we'll extract that .tar file which consists of the files required to install the package.            ***************run the commands via sudoers**************** There are 2 main files in the archive where first is the config file and second is the make.in file. The config file is the file which consists of all the configuration required for the package, it checks for the preliminary packages which are required and the version whether they are updated to the latest or not and other prerequisites required for installation. To run the configure file you first need to move to that directory. Let's say you are installing a GLIB package which is placed in the download directory  > cd Downloads/glib-2.43.4  > ./configure with the ./configure command, the config file of glib will execute and will check for all the required