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Installing perl modules in non standard directory

Source: http://modperlbook.org/html/3-9-1-Installing-Perl-Modules-into-a-Nonstandard-Directory.html Specifying PREFIX=/home/user is the only part of the installation process that is different from usual. Note that if you don’t like how Makefile.PL chooses the rest of the directories, or if you are using an older version of it...

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Compiling in $HOME

Original article Author updates   Original article Source: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/compiling-in-home/ If you don’t have root access on a particular Linux system that you use, or if you don’t want to install anything to the system directories and potentially interfere with others’ work...

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umask in *nix operating systems

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/44542/what-is-umask-and-how-does-it-work To calculate for the umask, unlike file system permissions. The octal umasks are calculated via the bitwise AND of the unary complement of the argument using bitwise NOT. The octal notations are as follows: Octal value : Permission 0...

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Installing Office 2010 on wine

Installing Office 2010 on wine Steps Use PlayOnLinux for Office install (It downloads 1.5.x version of wine) Change wine version from 1.5.x to latest – results in improved antialising Install missing wingdng2.ttf and wingdng3.ttf Under tab ‘Install Components’, install the...

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hosts file location

Location of hosts files on Windows and Unix Operating system Windows > %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Unix $ /etc/hosts Format <ip-1>    <host-1> <host-2> <ip-2>    <host-3> <ip-3>    <host-4> Related posts: Crontab quick reference