Monday, April 28, 2008

How to enable sound in Debian Etch installed on Virtual Box

Install alsa-base, alsa-utils and libesd-alsa0 packages.
Use the alsaconf command to configure and load the necessary sound modules.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

How to add a user to the sudoers list

How to add a user to the sudoers list:

1. Open a Root Terminal and type visudo (to access and edit the list)
2. Using the up/down arrows, navigate to the bottom of the sudoers file that is now displayed in the terminal
3. Just under the line that looks like the following:

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

4. Add the following (replacing user with the actual username):

user ALL=(ALL) ALL

5. Now press Ctrl+X and press Y when prompted to save

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

How to re-install MacPython on OS X

Remove the application folder '/Applications/MacPython'

Remove the framework '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework'.

Remove the symlink in '/usr/local/bin'.

Remove all files with names starting with Python under '/Library/Receipts'.


Done :)