These instructions are for Ubuntu 13.04 using the Unity interface (although, hints are provided at the bottom of the article for those who have installed a different desktop). Linux (of which Ubuntu is a flavour) and it’s inspiration Unix, have a strong emphasis and tradition of doing everything via typed commands. Often, when searching the Internet for a solution to a problem, you often find terse (possibly cryptic) answers along the lines of: Test if you can reach Google with ping -c 4 google.com or To recursively change your file permissions just: chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs In order to run those commands, you have to open a shell or command line or terminal (they are all synonymous, but shell is the preferred term in Linux and Unix circles). There are many different shells, the original Unix shell … Read entire article »

These instructions are for Ubuntu 12.10 using the Unity interface (although, hints are provided at the bottom of the article for those who have installed a different desktop). Linux (of which Ubuntu is a flavour) and it’s inspiration Unix, have a strong emphasis and tradition of doing everything via typed commands. Often, when searching the Internet for a solution to a problem, you often find terse (possibly cryptic) answers along the lines of: Test if you can reach Google with ping -c 4 google.com or To recursively change your file permissions just: chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs In order to run those commands, you have to open a shell or command line or terminal (they are all synonymous, but shell is the preferred term in Linux and Unix circles). There are many different shells, the original Unix shell … Read entire article »