Archive for June, 2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Installing MATLAB under Ubuntu 6.06
Some notes about installing MATLAB under Ubuntu 6.06, Dapper Drake:
The MATLAB installer cannot be run from the CD. So, copy the contents of the first CD to your drive. e.g., sudo cp -r /media/cdrom0/ /tmp/matlab
The license file must be in the installation directory before installing MATLAB. So, if you’re installing in /usr/local/matlab, then […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Ubuntu, Linux, MATLAB by lee
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Location of GNOME Menu Applets
I was trying to find out the name and location of the program launched by a GNOME menu applet, when I discovered this little trick by complete accident.
Open a terminal
Go to the menu of interest and drag it to the command line by holding down the left mouse button
This gives you a *.desktop file. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Ubuntu, Linux by lee
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Installing GNU Radio under Ubuntu 6.06
Edit: Aug 6, 2006
The instructions on this page are for the old GNU Radio build system. There is a new build system as of August 4, 2006. See http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/BuildGuide for details.
Installing GNU Radio under Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake is actually pretty easy once you piece together all the bits of information you need. […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Ubuntu, GNU Radio by lee
Sunday, June 11th, 2006
Managing alternative programs under Ubuntu (Debian)
Let’s say you want to maintain two or more versions of the same program on your system. Normally what you’d do is make a symbolic link that points to one of the alternatives. (e.g., ln -s /usr/bin/automake-1.4 /usr/bin/automake) When you later want to use one of the other alternatives, you simply change the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Computers, Ubuntu, Linux by lee
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Connecting to Internet from Command Line
I have a Kontron JREX-PM single board computer with Ubuntu server edition. That means no X-Windows.
To get the server on the network, I had to do the following:
1) In /etc/network/interfaces. Edit the “auto lo” line to say “auto lo eth1″, then add the following.
iface eth1 inet static
address 130.108.25.228
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 130.108.25.1
You might need […]


