Ubuntu essential knowledges

I migrated to Ubuntu one year ago, but I still don’t get the essential operation there. So, I put some random Ubuntu essential knowledges about it especially when it come to web development. Here there are several links I’ve found useful*.

Structure of file system

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview
• http://www.basicconfig.com/linux/filesystem
• http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-or-ubuntu-directory-structure.html

File permission

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions

Web development

• http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
• http://alan.edward.es/posts/installing-and-configuring-xampp-for-linux-lampp/
• https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

From the article above, you can install Node.js via package manager provided by ppa:chris-lea/node.js by actually adding python-software-properties package. Just run these commands and there you go.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make nodejs

For further explanation, you can read here.

Updating Ubuntu

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/110477/how-do-i-upgrade-to-a-newer-version-of-ubuntu

My experiences upgrading Ubuntu using software updater was not good and I had a little trouble with it. Fortunately, we can upgrade it using terminal and I found it easier and much more faster. At that forum site, I prefer the solution from NikTh that I can make it sort as:

1. Check whether there is an upgrade or not, using sudo do-release-upgrade -c
2. Housekeeping,

   sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
   sudo apt-get clean all
   sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ { print $2 }')

3. and Upgrade using sudo do-upgrade-release

Those steps are just to make it easy to remember of course, for the details you can step into the site and read whole the article 🙂

Appearance

• http://www.ubuntuthemes.org – Ubuntu themes website
• http://www.ubuntuthemes.org/installation-instructions/ – How to install the themes (Installation instruction)

In terms of installing themes, here are the steps I found easier to do:

1. Download the theme, and extract it
2. open Terminal (ctrl + alt + t), and execute this command sudo mv theme-name /usr/share/themes/
3. then, activate it! you can do this using “Unity Tweak Tool” because it’s easier

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*dynamic, still gonna change