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Setting Up Simple Dropbox Integration with Ubuntu

Image via CrunchBase The default installer of Dropbox for Ubuntu works with the Nautilus file manager. But this integration is not always desireable, below is a method to install Dropbox on your Ubuntu box without installing Nautilus.

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Search for Multiple Strings in Linux Command Line

Update (2026): This guide has been updated with modern Linux CLI tools, performance optimizations, and common terminal patterns for searching multiple strings seamlessly. Searching for multiple strings inside text files or terminal streams is an absolute staple of system administration, DevOps, and backend software engineering. While traditional Linux systems offer classic tools like grep, modern […]

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Getting Multimedia Working on Ubuntu

Image via Wikipedia If you are a newbie Ubuntu user then in all probability you have struggled to get the system setup to listen to your favorite music, watch your favorite movies and browse your favorite sites(video and flash). Is there a quick simple way to fix these problems in one go? Yes there is […]

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Upgrading to the Latest Firefox – Ubuntu Hacks

Image via Wikipedia Heard a lot of wonderful reviews of the latest firefox? Want to try it out on your Ubuntu box? Well unfortunately Ubuntu does not update its Firefox packages immediately after the release. To give a good test run for the latest and best you need to add the repository for the latest […]

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Fixing – “Internal error: Segmentation fault”

Recently while compiling some programs I received an unique error message: c++: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. Even compiling a simple Hello World program gave the same error. To fix the problem I needed to use a program called debsums on Ubuntu. debsums is a program used to […]