Mint tips and tricks

Revision as of 20:25, January 8, 2013

1. Your username in Mint is "me". Your password is "eecs182". Occasionally, you may need this, for example, when installing software within Mint.
2. Mint is a full-fledged Linux system. Mint is a variant of Ubuntu, a popular Linux system.
3. It is a good idea to back up your files that are inside Mint to a safe place. Mint can occasionally crash. Your laptop can also crash. Every semester, we have a few such cases. To start with, you can use Shared Folders in VMware to share a folder between your laptop and Mint and copy files back-and-forth. To Share a Folder, go to Virtual Machine -> Sharing and follow the obvious prompts. The shared folder will be in /mnt/hgfs folder (at least in Fusion). Let us know if it is different in Windows!
4. Use the backup method provided to you for homeworks.

Popular commands using in Terminal:

• listing contents of a directory:

%  ls    (list)

• finding where you are in the directory structure:

 % pwd 
(present working directory)

• changing directory:

%  cd [directory]

• changing directory to home:

% cd

• viewing a file in Terminal:

% more [filename]

• starting the Python interpreter:

% python

• compiling a C++ program:

% g++ -Wall -g [.cpp files] -o [outputfile]

• debugging a C++ program:

%  gdb [outfile]

• editing a program:

% emacs [filename]