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Show and search list of installed packages (Ubuntu)

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

To show the complete list:

dpkg --get-selections

To filter the list

dpkg --get-selections | grep XXX

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Eclipse PDT or Webtools missing perspectives on Linux (Ubuntu)

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

This post is an aide-mémoire and hopefully helps anyone who has the same issue I had; namely that Eclipse PDT or Eclipse Webtools Project running on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) was not making all installed perspectives available. (more...)

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Get latitude, longitude of location using google maps

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

1. Right click map and “center on location”.
2. Execute this JS in browser address bar:

javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

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