Things I have learnt tonight

[mrsbrown]

-When I install Fedora I should not be stingy about installing stuff

-When I think I won't need a CD player on a machine - I'm wrong!

-I should make myself a file of "useful terminal commands" -

To install gnucash, I just typed yum install gnucash on the basis that I would get the install that way and I couldn't remember the extra commands and couldn't work them out using man. Also I can't install off the cd because I have to reinstall a CD player in that machine. I will just go to bed and hope the abbostford box has sorted itself out by morning.

Maybe then I'll be in the mood to wield a screwdriver - if I need to

Comments

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

yum -y install somethingorother

go to bed

usually works for me. Especially with java and programming stuff where you have a gadzillion dependencies and yum takes 20 minutes to figure it all out for you.

"man -k something". e.g. "man -k calendar" tells you the name of all of the commands that have anything to do with calendars. Stuff in (1) or (8) is what you're after. Things in (2) and (3) are for C programmers, and (5) means a file format. e.g. tzfile (5) tells you what data goes in your time zone information file (in case you ever move to Mars and need to invent a new time zone).

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

I was just reminded of my favourite Linux command:

cal 9 1752

The calendar for September 1752, with the missing days.