Find packages based on files they contain inside-debian/ubuntu

error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
Problems with source code compilation are very common. Usually it is because missing files or packages as in example above.
To Search for package which contains config.h files is very easy:
first install apt-file
apt-get install apt-file
then update apt-file
apt-file update
All you need to do is now instruct apt-file command to search for [...]

Download, install, update, erase rpm packages using yum

yum – Red Hat tool for RPM package management used to download, install update, erase or list info about system packages
/etc/yum.repos.d/ -> list of configured repositories (web or ftp sites) that will be searched to download and install RPM packages
To view which repositories you have enabled:
yum repolist enabled
repo id [...]

Installing vmware and setup package dependancies on Fedora

1. Download vmware package (.rpm)
2. Install using rpm package manager
rpm -Uvh VMware-xxxxx.rpm (xxxxx = installation file)
3. Run config program
vmware-config.pl
- problems during configuration:
a.) None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to [...]

Configure Multiple Virtual IP Addresses on linux

Creating virtual IP address is very easy task. All we need is root access to the ifconfig command. This commands will create virtual ip addresses on eth0-> eth0:0 and eth0:1 network interface:
ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.148.143
ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.148.144

How to enable mp3 support on Fedora linux

There are to packages which enable mp3 support on fedora linux. First package which needs to by installed can be found here: livna
Second package can be installed by fedora’s package management tool yum:
#yum install k3b-extras-nonfree
all done.