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How to find and install Epson CX5500 All-In-One Scanner drivers on Ubuntu

To install Epson CX5500 scanner driver in Ubuntu, they have made a utility called "iscan" / "ImageScan! for Linux".

You can download the latest version from some of Epson's global sites (Use the steps towards the end of this article to see how I navigated through their numerous archives).

[SOLVED][PHP PEAR] How to fix the error 'could not extract the package.xml file' and 'Download of "pecl/uploadprogress" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive', when trying to install PECL uploadprogress using PHP PEAR on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

Setting up, upgrading and maintaining a clean and functional Drupal/PHP Development environment is an art, and quite a piece of cake for the skilled sysadmin. But the ever changing versions of OS packages and dependencies can bring up quite some unexpected challenges to a budding developer. Here is the solution to one such error that might eat your brains out.

Almost all usable versions of Drupal - 6, 7 and 8 - use PECL uploadprogress to show file upload progress.
And installing it on previous Ubuntu, PHP versions was as easy as running the following command:

[SOLVED] How to get the Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY wireless/WLAN/WiFi adapter working on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr or LinuxMint 17 Qiana - (Tested on a Dell Studio 1435 Laptop)

Note: I did this for a friend's Dell Studio 1435 Laptop, while installing the latest LinuxMint 17 Qiana Mate Edition. This should work on Ubuntu / LinuxMint for any machine which has a Broadcom BCM4312 wifi (802.11b/g) adapter.

You can make sure that you have the correct device mentioned here, by typing in the following command in the Terminal:

lspci | grep -i bcm4312

It should show something like this:

How to install/set up an Android Development Environment on Ubuntu (12.04 Precise / 13.04 Raring / 13.10 Saucy) / LinuxMint (13 / 14 / 15 Olivia / 16 Petra), and get started with learning the basics of app development by creating your first app

1. First, follow the steps on the following URL to make your Ubuntu / LinuxMint machine ready for configuration as an Android development rig:
http://antojose.com/content/how-to-install-eclipse-4-3-kepler-eclipse-4-...

2. Then go to developers.android.com,
and from the menu on top, navigate to
Develop > Tools > Developer Tools > Download.

[SOLVED][HOWTO] How to install Drush via PHP PEAR on your cPanel/WHM shared hosting server account

With SSH enabled, Drush is one of the best command-line tools that a Drupal developer/admin can have.

If you havent heard of Drush, checkout these pages to know more about it, and about how it can help make your life much saner:
https://github.com/drush-ops/drush#description
http://drush.ws/about

Here is how you can install Drush on your cPanel/WHM shared hosting account:

How to build / compile / install a High Performance / Latest Version (1.8.3 or later) of Git version control system from Source on Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 / 13.04 Server/Desktop

Installing Git on Ubuntu can be as simple as this:

Method 1: The easiest and Ubuntu recommended way - using the Ubuntu package manager:
sudo apt-get install git-core
Done!

Well, it takes quite some time for the latest version of Git to reach the Ubuntu repos - as of now, the repo version is around 4 months older than the actual version of Git out there.

To install those, you need to Build/Compile/Install from the latest version of the source code.

Here is how you do that:

[HOW-TO] How to enable Malayalam Inscript Keyboard to start typing in Malayalam in Ubuntu 12.04 / Ubuntu 12.10

The Inscript Keyboard is one of the 'de facto' standards for Typing in Malayalam on Linux.

You can use the following steps to configure and enable easy and professional Malayalam Typing capability on your Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 desktop:

Click on the Ubuntu Dash Icon (the top-most icon in your Unity Dashbar) that is by default found towards the left end of your desktop),

When the Dash shows up, type in the following search string: "Keyboard Layout", and click on the icon that shows up in the search results.

[HOW-TO] Installing Redmine 1.4.x (Project Management Suite + Issue Tracker + ...) with git integration and incoming emails support, on a hosting server with cPanel version 11.x

Getting the EasyCap USB 2.0 DC60 Audio/Video Capture Device working on Ubuntu 10.04

The EasyCap USB 2.0 DC60 is a quick answer for those of you who want a cheap solution to view/capture audio/video from their camcorders / DTH set-top boxes.

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