After upgrading the hard drive on my desktop Linux box I decided that I would install the newest version of Linux Mint on it. Although I love Ubuntu I find Mint to be quite refreshing and less time consuming to get all set up, as a result my 3 most used linux boxes are [...]
LinuxMint is a refreshing new take on Ubuntu, for those of you who are getting tired of the “same old thing ” but aren’t quite ready to venture away from a Debian based distro. It has a crisp UI, with a slightly more familiar menu for those of you coming straight from Windows. [...]
Sometimes you just can’t remember what packages you’ve already installed, or what version you are currently running. Thankfully you can quickly find out this information from the command line.
$ dpkg –get-selections
acl install
acpi-support install
acpid install
adduser install
alacarte install
alsa-base install
alsa-utils install
anacron install
apmd install
apparmor install
apparmor-utils install
apport install
apport-gtk install
apt install
apt-transport-https install
apt-utils install
apt-xapian-index install
aptitude install
apturl install
You’ll find that there is far too much information returned by this command and the only way to find exactly what you need is [...]
