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Update: Turns out that xxd does exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot, that's mostly what I'm looking for- especially the hex editors.

Is there any kind of software that can take any random file from any text or binary format, and turn it into a regular text file, and back? I don't mean into a text file that has any resemblance to whatever text might be in the original file- just a file that gets treated as a text file by the os an...

I'm on Mint 6. Whenever I start Aptoncd and click on "Create", at some point while it reads package informations, it simply crashes and disappears. When I start aptoncd from the terminal, I get the message "FATAL -> Failed to fork." in the terminal at the point when it crashes. A...

Thank you, that worked well.

Is there a way to make sure that a command or script is executed whenever a specific software is started? So that it's a bit like a cronjob, but instead of running at fixed times, it runs, for instance, whenever you start Firefox. Sorry, I couldn't think of a fitting combination of words to type int...

Step 3: Our package selections 1. Backup /etc/apt/sources.list ... or copy it to one of your other systems (in case you want to have the same packages everywhere) 2. On system #1 (the one you want to backup) issue this command: sudo dpkg --get-selections > packagelist.txt => This will write your pa...

Thank you, I think I'll try those.

Is there some way to automatically get a different image from a list of images as your wallpaper every time you log in?

Wow, that's great. Thanks.

I think for people who have a lot of additional software packages aside from the standard ones, it might be useful to be able to automize the installation of their additional software after a new install. So what about a software that works like this: When you run it, it checks what deb packages are...

I've now downloaded the firefox-related packages from the Mint repository by hand and installed them with dpkg and deleted the .mozilla directory, but firefox still tries to load the ubuntu firefox start page.

No, I'm using the update function in Synaptic. (And thanks for all, while we're at it.)

Hi again, If I install a new version of Mint that includes a major upgrade of a software, will it usually get along well with the old ".nameofsoftware" directory in my home folder? If that directory contains text- for instance, if the software in question is Tomboy or Krecipes or something...

Hi, I've installed Celena a while ago. The Celena release announcement says that you maintain Firefox yourself now, to get rid of the problem with every updated version trying to load the Ubuntu Firefox start page. But for some reason, that doesn't work for me. All the time since I my first routine ...