Advanced Packaging Tools

Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a front-end for the package management system used by Debian GNU/Linux and its derivatives (quoted from wikipedia). This tool should be very familiar for ubuntu/debian users as we need it to install application by using the command below:

$ sudo apt-get install package

When we run the command, debian will look for the package from the repositories. And the sources of the repositories can be found on  /etc/apt/sources.list. We can edit this file to the closest server from our workstation or any server that we prefer.

My Ubuntu doesn’t compile

I’m quite new with Ubuntu and used to work with RedHat before. Using this new distro, made experiencing a lot of new thins such as what I got today. I was unable to compile several application from source code. The C compiler is installed, but not the essential headers. Therefore, I got the error message below whenever I compiled an application:

C compiler cannot create executables

To allow me compiling the source, here what I need to do:

#sudo apt-get install build-essential

Voila, I’m now able to compile the sources

Ubuntu on Live CD

I finally tried UBuntu using Live CD on my machine. I was trying to download the alternate CD since I didn’t know that I could actually install UBuntu using the live CD. How stupid I was.

The live CD looks OK to me. I will try to install it later on. It’s time to bed now.

Is there such a secret priority for a MS application ?

I used to open two application when I started up my PC to begin my daily activity , i.e: Microsoft Outlook and Firefox.

The start up process sometimes took several minutes to complete. But I normally not patient enough to wait for the startup to complete  so I double-click both of the application mentioned above while waiting for the process. What surprised me is that Ms Outlook will always be opened first regardless of what I clicked. This morning I tried to click Firefox first and wait for several seconds before clicking the Ms Outlook.  And again, Ms Outlook was launched first before Firefox.

Is there such a secret priority for a Ms Application ?