Sometimes when tweaking and adjusting a system a need to select the default applications may arise. In Linux systems selecting the defaults has been made easy via terminal with update alternatives commands
In oder to take advantage of update alternatives open your terminal (gnome-terminal, lxterminal…) and use for example following commands to adjust your system. Continue reading
Some times it happens that when doing system tweaks you accidentally remove the wrong packages which will result in having an unstable and possibly even an unfunctional system. So in order to get through the bad scenario of unusable system it might be in place to create a session entry to your session manager (lightdm, gdm3…) so you can open up a failsafe terminal session if everything else fails on your gui elsewhere. Continue reading
Sometimes it may happen that you will actually need to install something manually: there might not be a recent enough version from the program which you need or the program may be absent all together. Solution for the previous hardship is installing the program from source code via terminal. Continue reading
If you are trying to build Openmeetings read the previous part of the guide first:http://www.techtimejourney.net/?p=875
Disclaimer: Remember that everything in this post is provided purely on educational purposes. If any harm should come to your system the author of this website withdraws from any responsibility. Also you should be noted that in case of Ffmpeg different codes of conduct may be applied to the usage of the Ffmpeg depending on your location. Continue reading