Add Package Control in Sublime Text 3 through the command line

The easiest way is to download https://packagecontrol.io/Package%20Control.sublime-package using wget or curl, and store it in ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Installed Packages. It will then set itself up upon first starting the editor. As a bonus, if you create ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings and populate it with the packages you want installed, everything should work more-or-less automatically to download and install everything. … Read more

Bash Pipe Handling

I decided to write a slightly more detailed explanation. The “magic” here lies in the operating system. Both programs do start up at roughly the same time, and run at the same time (the operating system assigns them slices of time on the processor to run) as every other simultaneously running process on your computer … Read more

Installing ghc binaries on Linux (can’t find libgmp.so)

You either add /usr/local/lib and/or /usr/local/lib64 to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or add them to /etc/ld.so.conf, or (since you already have /usr/lib64/libgmp.so.3) add a missing symbolic link: cd /usr/lib64 sudo ln -s libgmp.so.3 libgmp.so (and perhaps the same for /usr/lib). Note that /usr/lib64/libgmp.so.3 might be a different version from /usr/local/lib64/libgmp.so, make sure ghc can actually be used with … Read more

Error message “500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()” [closed]

This blog here points out how to fix this problem. http://www.mikestechblog.com/joomla/operating-systems-section/operating-systems-ubuntu/155-500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot.html The issue being that the user’s root directory is writable. The Frontier Group provides you with a fix on vsFTPd. Here are the steps to be taken (copy paste from the tutorial, in case the link dies) login as root (or sudo..) and do … Read more