Here’s a piece of my current Makefile: I have libsdl installed properly, SDL.h is in /usr/include/sdl where it belongs, but it just won’t compile. I also have the line #include “SDL.h” in my .h files, but still no go. Anyone knows why? Answer If the header file is /usr/include/sdl/SDL.…
Tag: linux
Configuring for a compiler different than the default while running configure
I am compiling the glibc library. Before I could do that, I need to run configure. However, for compiling glibc, I need to use the gcc compiler which is not the default compiler on the machine. The manual says the following. Now my problem is that I don’t have any administrative rights on that machine. …
How to display only different rows using diff (bash)
How can I display only different rows using diff in a separate file? For example, the file number 1 contains the line: A file number 2 contains the following lines: How to make in the following happen? Answer a.txt: b.txt: Use comm: The command line options to comm are pretty straight-forward: -1 suppress col…
How to remove tooltip hints in thunderbird? [closed]
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How using a Java GUI in a GL Linux Server command line?
My school projects are all done on the Linux Server, which is all done with command lines and no GUI. One of my java projects requires me to create a java GUI and to be able to build and run the project on the GL server. I’m confused since the GL server is all command line, but my professor says
How to gzip all files in all sub-directories in bash
I want to iterate among sub directories of my current location and gzip each file seperately. For zipping files in a directory, I use but this can just work on current directory and not the sub directories of the current directory. How can I rewrite the above statements so that It also zips the files in all s…
How to install PHP mbstring on CentOS 6.2
How do I install mbstring with PHP on CentOS 6.2 I’ve tried: But no packages were found? Answer do the following: under the section updates, comment out the mirrorlist line (put a # in front of the line), then on a new line write: now try: (afterwards you’ll probably want to uncomment the mirrorli…
How to insert an offset to hexdump with xxd?
Is there an easy way to add an offset to the hex dump generated by xxd ? i.e instead of I should get Answer This is what I am doing now..It works perfectly but its kind of lame approach for just adding an offset 🙂
Why is import of SQL so slow?
I have an SQL file containing two tables with around 600,000 rows altogether. Yesterday, I tried to import the file into my MySQL database on Fedora 16, and it took over 2 hours to import the file. On my Windows PC it took 7 minutes. My Linux and Windows machines have exactly the same hardware. A couple of my…
Reliable writes in linux
My requirement is to write a never ending stream of incoming variable sized binary messages to the file system. Messages of average size 2KB arrive at 1000 messages/sec. So in an hour, total number of messages would be 3600*1000*2 = 6.8 GB. The main purpose of the messages is following 1. Archive them for aud…