100 Linux Tips and Tricks
Tip 12: asm or linux include files not found
On older Linux systems, you may have some errors about include files not found in the asm/ or linux/ directory when you try to compile some programs. This means that the kernel source code was not installed. Bot asm/ and linux/ directories are links to the kernel source code.
To install them on your system, you need to get the kernel source code. Then you need to link the directories:
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
This will link the 2 directories in the include tree allowing applications to find them.
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Tip 13: ICQ on Linux
The original ICQ client does not currently run on Linux. Fortunately, there are clones that do run on Linux and offer the ICQ service to users. A popular ICQ program is Licq available from http://licq.wibble.net. Another popular one is Micq available at http://micq.chatzone.org. Other ICQ programs are also available for Linux. This is licq:
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Tip 14: Reading foreign documents
Linux comes with various freely available word processors and office suites. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office doesn't come with a Linux native port. But you can still read and write Word and Excel files.
Word Perfect is a Corel word processor product that has a Linux port. The latest version is Word Perfect 8. It is available freely for personal use on Linux, and will read and write Word files. It is available from http://linux.corel.com. Another program is Star Office. This product from Star Division looks very much like Microsoft Office and offers similar features. It will also read and write all kinds of file formats. Star Office is available freely for personal use from http://www.stardivision.com:
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Tip 15: Scanning with Linux
A number of scanning programs exist for Linux. A popular one currently is SANE which stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is available from http://www.mostang.com/sane. It is an application programming interface that provides standardized access to scanners.
Several graphical frontends are also available from the SANE Web page.
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