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To install "aspell" in linux, follow the below steps:


cd /usr/local/src
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf aspell-0.60.6.tar.gz
cd aspell-0.60.6/
./configure
make
make install

This will install aspell at the location /usr/local/bin/aspell. Make sure that you have build tools installed on your operating system. If you don't, you can install it using the below command in ubuntu :

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential

The key board short cut to paste the content from clipboard to putty terminal in Linux is Ctrl+Shift+Insert

First copy the content using Ctrl+C. This will copy the content to buffer. Then go to putty terminal and press Ctrl+Shift+insert

This is a tutorial which shows how to dual boot Linux and PC-BSD 10. PC-BSD 10 uses ZFS as the file system and grub for the boot manager. I was able to successfully dual boot PC-BSD and CrunchBang Linux in my laptop.

I was able to achieve this after lots of trial and error methods. I have not found a valid guide in the internet to do it. All the tutorials were outdated or at least not working for me. I have spend a lot of time in the pc-bsd/freebsd irc channels and finally able to achieve this after trying out different suggestions from the irc members. Thanks to them all for the guidance.

There is no Mozilla Thunderbird package in CrunchBang Linux. So if you try

sudo apt-get install thunderbird

it won't work. The Thunderbird is rebranded to Icedove in Debian. As CrunchBang is using Debian as upstream, it is Icedove in CrunchBang Linux also.

Below given is the steps to install BCM43142 wireless drivers  in CrunchBang Linux.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers$(uname -r | grep -Po "\-[a-z].*")

sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms