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Compiling C Program on OS X to Run on Linux

I have a pretty simple C program that does some cryptographic calculations using only standard library functions. I will be running the program on Ubuntu (10.04, 32 bit) and compiled it on OS X 10.6 using cc with the -m32 flag. When I tried to run it on Ubuntu I got the error message “cannot execute bin…

CPAN giving all sorts of errors on ubuntu

I am just trying to run a simple perl program to import data from xml and export it to database. Use Mysql; did not work, so I used DBD::mysql instead after failing to get Mysql.pm from cpan. However, I am unable to install anything. I am trying to install xml parser module, but cpan gives these errors no mat…

How to select the output device of audio in ubuntu manually?

In Ubuntu, we can select the output device of audio in sound preferences. But now I want to write a shell script, so I need to select the output device from the commandline. Answer You can first view your current default audio device by typing: And with you can view all your devices. And with this command you…