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Install all programs on a newly installed ubuntu system

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If you’re running Ubuntu there is a neat way of installing all of your programs on a newly installed Ubuntu system.
Run the following command on the ‘old’ Ubuntu installation.
“dpkg –get-selections > installed-software”

You’ll end up with a file called installed-software. Copy the file to a usb key and copy it to a location on your backtrack machine.
Run: “dpkg –set-selections < installed-software” in the directory where you copied the file installed-software.
Finally the “sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade” commands completes all of this. Be aware that is might take while until the installtion finishes.

If the above doesn’t work, you probably do not have dselect installed.
In that case, run “apt-get install deselect”
The above instructions also work on BackTrack 5

HOWTO: Monitoring your desktop Linux the easy way

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There are lots of programs that help us to monitor our personal computer. They provide us with memory consumption, cpu usage, network statistics and lots more. In this article I’m going to introduce gkrellm. I’ve always had gkrellm running in every desktop Linux. It’s very useful and provides essential information in real time. Installing gkrellm is just very easy, type:sudo apt-get install gkrellm

to run it, type

gkrellm &

and you’ll get several info about your computer in real time.

Gkrellm supports themes, so the app can have several appearances. I always use the “invisible” theme, which is a transparent theme, so you can see the background. Very cool. To install a new theme (Ubuntu) go to

http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/

and download the theme you like. Most of the themes come gzipped. Once you download the theme to your home directory, ungzipp it and move the whole directory to ~/.gkrellm2/themes.