This is specially useful in vagrant machines
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Install utility to add apt sources easily:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
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Add sources that contains emacs24
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
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Update the apt source list and install emacs24-nox (for emacs without X)
sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install emacs24-nox
Done.
Udacity isn’t concerned with students who fall short. Its creators are busy trying to help those who ace every triple-gold-star problem and never miss a quiz—the young men in Lahore, Beirut, and Caracas who haunt Internet cafes and spend hours engaging in jargony repartee about elegant solutions on the Udacity message board. These are the people that Udacity hopes to help recruit to talent-hungry dot-coms like Google and Amazon
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Funny how they mention Caracas as one of the places with people with low resources…
From this blogpost
Whenever I upgrade the version of my virtualbox env, I always run through the annoying warning given by vagrant, saying that the virtual machine doesn’t have a matching version to the virtualbox-guest-additions.
In order to solve this issue, I always follow the steps given in this blogpost.
I re-post this steps over here for my personal records…
This is specially useful in vagrant machines
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Install utility to add apt sources easily:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
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Add sources that contains oracle-java-7
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
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Update the apt source list and install java’s oracle version
sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer
Done.
Success is when you’ve failed so much that you start to fail at failing.