I really miss the old versions of Skype on my Macbook running OSX Mountain Lion. While I could just download and install one of the Skype version for .DMG’s some people I talk with require the newer version of Skype to use some of the features not available in the older versions, etc. I wish…
Having trouble logging into an AWS instance using an SSH key? I was too and when I finally figured out what the issue was I was kicking myself. Recently I was called to assist figuring out information about a clients AWS deployment for a project where the original developers were no longer available or answering…
When installing the acidbase package on Ubuntu Linux there are numerous popups that require answers. Some of those variables are covered in this article however there is one that when searching debconf selections for it isn’t listed with acidbase so it can be harder to locate. Below I display the popup in question and describe…
If you are putting together a script that uses wget to post data to various URL’s it is likely that you do not want wget to save the response back from the server in files. You can easily get around this by specifying the output file that wget save to with the -O switch. Below…
It can be useful to know the debconf variables for an application you are going to install on Ubuntu Linux before installing the application. Below are the possible debconf variables to set for acidbase when installing on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
It can be useful to set temporary environment variables from the command line in Linux. Even more useful is the output of a long command being set to a single environment variable. Below I show an example of setting an environment variable followed by setting an environment variable to the output of a command or…
When setting up a server or group of servers for the first time you may find yourself wanting to create MySQL users without having to login to MySQL. It would make sense for the mysqladmin command to offer this functionality but it does not. Instead you can create the MySQL user with the mysql command…
The purpose of this article is to list the variables that are available to set when installing mysql-server on Ubuntu Linux. You can use the debconf-get-selections command to list debconf variables for any installed package on Ubuntu but the debconf variables are most useful before a package is installed so I constantly find myself having…
I find myself on a regular basis looking for various debconf variables to set before installing packages on Ubuntu. This is typically to not have to type in the answers on the various configuration screens or because I want to script an install of some package. If the package has never been installed before on…