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Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian

Duffy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:41:45 +0000

I Recently found the 'system sound' tab in gnome-sound-property grayed out my work around to this was to install the freedesktop sound theme.

Firstly remove gnome-audio
```
sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-audio
```

Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds
```
sudo rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/desktop/gnome/sound
```

Install some needed packages

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra0 gnome-session-canberra build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev intltool debhelper

Grab the source for freedesktop sound theme from git.debian.org

wget -O freedesktop-sound-theme.tgz 'http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/freedesktop-sound-theme.git;a=snapshot;h=c6773c0c08eeaab03c466dc015d36809dff537bf;sf=tgz'

Unpack and apply some small fixes

tar xzf freedesktop-sound-theme.tgz
cd freedesktop-sound-theme/debian
sed -e 's:touch build:./configure --prefix=/usr \&\& $(MAKE) \&\& &:' rules > tmp; cp tmp rules
sed -e 's:\*:&.ogg:' freedesktop-sound-theme.install > tmp; cp tmp freedesktop-sound-theme.install
rm tmp
cd ../

Build and install the package

sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ../
dpkg -i freedesktop-sound-theme_0.2-1_i386.deb

Invoke gnome-sound-property and configure 'system sound'

gnome-sound-property
then you can select 'system sound' tab

Finally reboot your system and you should be good to go

Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History

Duffy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:00:27 +0000

This comes in very handy if your trying to track back when you had last run something.
To enable it just simply add export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S " to your .bashrc file

echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "' >> ~/.bashrc

Then reload your .bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

Now when you run history you should get a output similar to the one below

   502  Aug/12 - 13:48:31 tail -f /home/duffy/log/access.log
  503  Aug/12 - 13:49:01 echo hello
  504  Aug/12 - 13:49:24 more /var/log/syslog

Some other bash history tips

The best way of finding something quickly in your bash history is simply by pressing ctrl+r and then typing out the start of the command it will auto complete it with any matches found in your bash history

If you don't want to save duplicate commands in your bash history simply add export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth to your .bashrc
```
echo 'export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth' >> ~/.bashrc
```

If you want to change the lenght of history add export HISTSIZE=1000 to your .bashrc
```
echo 'export HISTSIZE=1000' >> ~/.bashrc
```

Setting up a FTP Server on debian

Duffy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:26:21 +0000

Install vsftpd
```
apt-get install vsftpd
```
Edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and make the following changes:
1. Change Yes to No in the following line
```
Anonymous_enable = YES
```
2. Uncomment the following lines by removing the #
```
#local_enable = YES
#write_enable = YES
#local_umask = 022
#chroot_local_user = YES
```
Finally restart the vsftpd
```
/etc/init.d/vsftpd
```
You and any of your users should now be able to FTP the server

Disabling IPV6 on Debian

Duffy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:50:48 +0000

If you don't use ivp6 for anything and your ISP doesn't support it theres not much of a need to have it enabled. To disable it we need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

nano /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

By default you will have the following line

alias net-pf-10 ipv6

Replace it with the following

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

You can now remove all the ipv6 stuff from /etc/hosts and once you reboot ipv6 will be disabled

Creating aliases in bash

Duffy — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:15:52 +0000

Are you tired off typing out full commands? if so aliases can save you time. They allow you to shorten long commands down into one word. To add a alias edit ~/.bashrc

nano ~/.bashrc

Then come to the bottom of that file and add your aliases like this:

alias rm = "rm -i"
alias lightyrestart = "/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart"
alias server_name="ssh -v -l USERNAME IP ADDRESS"

Then Reload your .bashrc file and your aliases should be enabled

source ~/.bashrc