Vim Latex Suite Install on Ubuntu

Ubuntu doesn’t manage vim’s addons, so installing the vim-latexsuite package doesn’t actually put all the relevant hooks into your vim installation. To do that, (after installing the package) execute; sudo vim-addons -w install latex-suite

October 5, 2011 · Andrew Bolster

FIX:CUDA on Debian Jessie

Hopefully a super quick one (while I’m procrastinating from procrastinating). Debian Jessie is a lovely operating system until you try and do anything with it. Lots of Package deprecations etc etc etc. Anyway, I’ve got a history with GPU stuff and I’ve been playing with integrating it into some of my research, but in a bout of insanity I decided while I’m over in Liverpool (for another 4 hours) to wipe my old workstation and bring it over from Ubuntu 15.04 to Jessie (which I’ve been using on my main laptop for a while now). ...

Andrew Bolster

Unattended Updates in Linux Mint

There’s several very valid tutorials and guides around about getting Ubuntu, Debian and Mint to automatically update and upgrade, but they don’t do much explaining/checking. This is a short post filling in the gaps I observed. Get the package sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades -y Enable the package scheduler File Being Messed With: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades Log File Being Watched: /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log I’ve got no idea why this isn’t automatic; possibly that in other environments, you only want security level upgrades to core system components rather than updating all regular applications. (Not doing this left me scratching my head for a while wondering why the logs kept saying No packages found that can be upgraded unattended when apt was telling me something completely different. Anyway, put the following into a new file named above. ...

Andrew Bolster