In the Linux world, tarball refers to a compressed tar archive file. The most common type uses gzip compression and the file typically ends in tar.gz or .tgz. The tar command itself has its origin in Unix systems where is was used to save files to magnetic tape. The name tar stands for Tape ARchive.
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LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and php, (or Perl). It’s one of the most popular web hosting platforms. If you’re developing websites, it’s good to have your own private development environment to use while you build and test your websites. This post will show you how to install and configure a LAMP web development …
Continue reading Install LAMP and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 11.10In today’s post I’m going to show how to use the command line find program to search for files. There are certainly different GUI tools available in Linux, such as Beagle, to search for files. The advantage of many of these systems is that they index the files on your system so that the searching …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Finding FilesMany software packages in Ubuntu come along with a package configuration file. These files are used to control various settings for their particular package. In most cases, there is no reason to keep these files around after you’ve removed a package from you system. They get removed from your system along with the software package …
Continue reading Remove Old Package Configuration Files in UbuntuMany different Linux distributions will display their version information in one place or another in the GUI. If you need to pull this information quickly, it may just be easier to open a terminal window and find it from the command line.
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