With the Ubuntu 8.04 release a few days away, there comes a time when one needs an end-all reference to the system. The time is now, and if you’re an Ubuntu user and liked the original cheat sheet, then do we have a surprise for you:
Click the preview above to download your PDF copy. This sheet is free to modify and redistribute for your own needs; we just ask that you keep the FOSSwire logo on the page. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
If you haven’t seen the previous sheet or would like one with more general Linux and Unix commands, see the original.
Translations:
As always, we’re open to more translations and fixes. Enjoy!
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Hezy wrote:
gedit - test editor (KDE)?
I think the g stands for Gnome…
[ you caught that just after Chris did - oops! -jacob ]
# Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 9:09 pm
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# Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 10:39 pm
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# Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 11:11 pm
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# Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 11:16 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 1:01 am
LinuxTOY wrote:
Ubuntu 速查表…
曾经，FOSSwire 制作了一张 Unix/Linux 命令速查表，为 Unix/Linux 用户带来了方便。现在，他们又专门针对 Ubuntu 制作了一张速查表，其中包含权限、显示、系统服务、包管理、网络、防火墙、系统….
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 1:52 am
Lucain wrote:
Iwould like to traslate this cheat sheet to spanish if you dont mind
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 3:34 am
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 5:54 am
Arapajoe wrote:
I have translated it into Spanish. Thanks for the Sheet!!
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 7:53 am
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 8:43 am
Bill Goldberg wrote:
Thank for this, this sort of list always comes in handy.
I converted it to text and added it to my blog.
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 10:08 am
Bill Goldberg wrote:
oh, I couldn’t keep the fosswire logo in the text document (since it’s text) but I added credit to you guys at the bottom.
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 10:18 am
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 1:48 pm
Alex wrote:
Nice cheat sheet; great work!
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 1:50 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 2:58 pm
pfos wrote:
Nice work. Thanks for the cheatsheet.
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 3:07 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 5:29 pm
Alan Pope wrote:
You should use “sudo -s” to get a root terminal, not “sudo su”.
I would also recommend not suggesting “dpkg” to install packages, but use “gdebi” instead as this will resolve dependancies in the same way apt does.
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 6:24 pm
Alan Pope wrote:
Oh, and if you’re going to open a shell as another user, don’t use “sudo su user” use “sudo su - user” to ensure the environment gets setup correctly.
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 6:27 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 6:27 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 6:39 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 6:40 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 8:38 pm
Nick Nolan wrote:
Nice. Please add url to page where you can download the newest/original into the sheet. When I lose the pdf, I can just download it again. Thanks.
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 8:38 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 8:52 pm
John Greeley wrote:
I have to say you guys have mastered the art of the cheat sheet. There is a high density of important information content but it is still easy to understand. I wish you wrote man pages. More please!
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 8:56 pm
ulmen wrote:
Russian translation: http://ulmencave.blogspot.com/2008/04/ubuntu-cheat-sheet.html
Thank you!
# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 8:59 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 9:14 pm
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# Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 9:20 pm
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# Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 6:40 am
noname wrote:
Baguslah kalau ada Ubuntu CS ni…
Lagi senang newbie nak belajar dan mahir dengan Ubuntu/Linux.
Terima kasih.
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ZoRg Soft wrote:
In russian languige here:
http://mydiary.net.ru/2008/04/24/ubuntu-shpargalka/
# Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 10:26 am
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# Posted on 25-Apr-08 at 10:10 pm
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# Posted on 28-Apr-08 at 3:41 pm
JP wrote:
You should use ‘aptitude’ instead of ‘apt-get’ for all but the autoremove one. aptitude automatically does autoremove, so you could even skip that one.
Reason: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-aptitude
“… Note that aptitude is the preferred program for package management from console both for package installations and package or system upgrades.”
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html
“aptitude is now the preferred text front end for APT, the Advanced Package Tool. It remembers which packages you deliberately installed and which packages were pulled in through dependencies; the latter packages are automatically de-installed by aptitude when they are no longer needed by any deliberately installed packages. It has advanced package-filtering features but these can be difficult to configure.”
See also: http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/
# Posted on 28-Apr-08 at 8:46 pm
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# Posted on 02-May-08 at 10:29 am
papapep wrote:
Translated to Catalan (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Recursos?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubunturef_cat.pdf). Thanks a lot for such a great job!
# Posted on 08-May-08 at 12:31 am
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