Questions tagged [application]
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How do I list all installed programs?
How do I list both programs that came with my distribution and those I manually installed?
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Should I put application into /usr/local or /usr/local/share?
What are the "standards" -- should I put application (not just binary, but entire distribution) to /usr/local or /usr/local/share.
For example scala or weka -- it contains examples, binaries, libraries, and so on. So it would be…
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Is there any CLI/terminal slideshow app?
I'm asking myself: is there, on linux, any software that can build and show simple slides on terminal, like the slides you make on Libreoffice Impress (but way more simple)?
This would be a great experience to make a presentation using only the…
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Are binaries portable across different CPU architectures?
My goal is to be able to develop for embedded Linux. I have experience on bare-metal embedded systems using ARM.
I have some general questions about developing for different cpu targets. My questions are as below:
If I have an application compiled…
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run Mac OS X applications on Linux
According to this Wikipedia article:
OS X is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc.
so i was thinking:
is there any similar application to Wine but runs Mac applications?
is it possible…
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Program to show keystrokes (shortcuts) on display
I'm going to make a presentation about a software product and it has some key shortcuts, that I want to show. Is there a program, which displays the keyboard-shortcuts, that I have used?
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How can I read CD-Text information from CDs
What applications are available for GNU/Linux that allow read-out of CD-Text data from CDs?
Command-line programs would be preferred.
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How can we trace problems of crashing programs in Linux?
If an application crashes in Windows we can check the Event Viewer in the Administration tools to see what has crashed. Sometimes it has useful information others not, but it is a start.
In linux if an application (any) crashes how one starts to…
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Personal health records software
Does anybody know personal health records software for Linux?
I want to record blood pressure, pulse, temperature, feel to analyze later. I will write information manually, as my measuring instruments doesn't have connection to PC.
Of course I can…
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Colorized `cat` for source and script files?
Possible Duplicate:
How can I display syntax highlighting on a file?
Is there any application like cat, but with color output?
I'd like to view my files with colors like in any IDE's editor.
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Does quiesce exist for Linux?
Quiescing a file system allows you to make a backup of the database while it is still running and other programs and their data as well.
The application generally needs to be notified of the quiesce backup operation because all the buffers need to…
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Where to start creating CLI applications?
After using linux for a month or two, I know what I'm doing now.
When creating programs, using whatever language, I've obviously been using code like this:
$ python test.py
And so if I wanted test.py to read a given file, I would have to use:
$…
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Custom desktop launcher search path in Ubuntu
I know I can write a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications, but can I add new folders to the search path similar to the $PATH environment variable?
For example, I want to put my .desktop files in ~/mydesktop/ and…
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Why isn't discover software manager able to load applications in Arch LInux?
Why isn't the discover software manager loading any applications in Arch Linux? This is what discover is saying:
Discover currently cannot be used to install any apps because none of its app backends are available. Please report this error to your…
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Bash script - run application and show live output
I've got a bash script that sets up some environment parameters and then runs a c++ application.
The c++ application outputs information showing it's current state as it runs.
Currently, I only see the results of this once it's finished running.…
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