Removing debian dependencies

removing extra packages that should've been removed by purge
aptitude purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}')

Set terminal window name


title=`hostname`
echo -n -e "\033]0;$title\007"

Mac seeing debian

sudo aptitude install avahi-daemon libnss-mdns

Installing gem rmagick in Ubuntu

You will need the hearder files:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev
then install the rmagick gem

sudo gem install rmagick

Installing sqlite3 in ruby Ubuntu

To install sqlite3 in ruby you will need the header files:
* sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
then you can install it from gem or from the ruby repository

Install Ruby 1.8.6 on Ubuntu with readline

When installing ruby 1.8 in Ubuntu 9.10. The specific version of ruby that is on the repository is 1.8.7. If you need version 1.8.6 then you will need to follow this:

• install dev

sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential bison byacc gperf zlib1g-dev libreadline5 libreadline5-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libssl-dev 

• download rails 1.8.6:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2

• unpack it
• install it

./configure
make
sudo make install

Linux looking for a file by date

If you are looking for a file by date you can use

touch -d "13 may 2001 17:54:19" date_marker
find . -newer date_marker