Three new commands made their way into Romeo last night: search, apt contains and apt content. All three of them are provided by mintSystem 5.5.

If you have Romeo set up as a repository simply type “apt update” and “apt install mintsystem”. Otherwise you can get the deb from here:

http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/romeo/m/mintsystem/mintsystem_5.5_all.deb

apt content package

“apt content” shows the content of package, it’s a shortcut for “dpkg -L”. For instance, if you type “apt content mintsystem” you should see the following:

clem@mars ~/Desktop $ apt content mintsystem
/.
/usr
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/apt
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/linuxmint
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/icon.png
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/python
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/python/configobj.py
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/templates
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/templates/apt.conf
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/templates/preferences
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall/portals.list
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall/release.id
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall/sources.list
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/mintsystem
/usr/share/doc/mintsystem/copyright
/usr/share/doc/mintsystem/changelog.gz

apt contains filename

“apt contains” tells you which package contains a particular file. It’s a shortcut for “dpkg -S”. For instance if you type “apt contains /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt” you should see the following:

clem@mars ~/Desktop $ apt contains /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt
mintsystem: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt

search for keyword in directory

“search” lets you search for files containing a particular keyword. You can get a list of options by typing “search –help”:

clem@mars ~/Desktop $ search help

usage: search [arguments] [options]
arguments:
for text
in directory
options:
-c | –case-sensitive
-s | –show-filenames-only

“search” is easy to use. Let’s take an example and search for “workgroup” in /etc/samba. We type “search for workgroup in /etc/samba” and we see the following:

clem@mars ~/Desktop $ search for workgroup in /etc/samba
/etc/samba/smb.conf.ucf-old:26:# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
/etc/samba/smb.conf.ucf-old:27:   workgroup = MSHOME
/etc/samba/smb.conf:26:# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
/etc/samba/smb.conf:27:   workgroup = MSHOME

We can refine the search by adding “–case-sensitive” or only show filenames by adding “–show-filenames-only”. For instance:

clem@mars ~/Desktop $ search in /etc/samba for workgroup –case-sensitive –show-filenames-only
/etc/samba/smb.conf.ucf-old
/etc/samba/smb.conf

Let us know what you think and if you find any bugs. These will eventually be backported into Elyssa and will be featured as some of Mint 6’s improvements.

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Sponsors:

– $70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil – France)
– $81, Linuxmint-Shop.de (Germany) – http://www.linuxmint-shop.de
– $76, LinuxISOS.de (Germany) – http://www.linuxisos.de
– $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
– $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
– $30, LinuxMint-Forum.de (Germany) – http://linuxmint-forum.de/
– $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) – http://www.immobilien-es.com
– $10, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) – http://www.linux-onlineshop.de
– $10, Tuxdevil Outsourcing LLC http://www.tuxdevil.net
– $10, Jim Rogers (USA)
– $10, MXD Internet Solutions (Filip Oscadal – Czech Republic) – http://www.mxd.biz
– $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
– $5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) – http://www.urbancsa.org
– $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
– $5, Alex P.
– $5, Dimitris Athanasiou (RHO, Greece) – http://www.speedtest.gr
– $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
– $5, Robert Holland
– $1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p – Germany) – http://www.lintelligence.de
– $1, Linuxmint.de (d00p – Germany) – http://www.linuxmint.de
– $1, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
– $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)

Donors:

– $200, Peter M. (Canada)
– $101, Frans Van O. (Netherlands)
– $72, V. Mark L. (Ireland)
– $72, Rafael G. V. (Spain)
– $72, Florian B. (Germany)
– $72, Christophe W. (Switzerland)
– $72, Gerard R. (France)
– $72, Matthias R. (France)
– $51 (2nd donation), Richard Svendsen (Norway)
– $50, Coleman D. (USA)
– $50, Theo L. (Switzerland)
– $50, David M.    (USA)
– $50, Paul V. (Canada)
– $50, Ennien A. (Canada)
– $45 (4th and 5th donations), Andreas L. (Norway)
– $29 (6th donation), Temel Balci (Germany)
– $29 (2nd donation), Vincent V. (France)
– $21 (4th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany)
– $20, IT Servants (USA)
– $20, Tim V.-B. (UK)
– $20, Nathan H. (USA)
– $15, Robert N. (USA)
– $14, Carl K. (USA)
– $14, Marc M. (Belgium)
– $14, Costas K. (Greece)
– $14, Thorsten M.-R. (Germany)
– $14, Robert H. (Germany)
– $14, Daniel A. (Luxembourg)
– $10, Theodore P. (USA)
– $10 (2nd donation), Henry W.    (USA)
– $10 (2nd donation), James R.    (USA)
– $5, John S. (USA)
– $5, Bryan T. (USA)
– $0.1, Rytis S. (Lithuania)

Money raised in September:

* Donations: $1357.1
* Sponsors: $442.5

http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

MintUpload will support FTP as well as the already supported “Mint-Space” protocol. Users will be able to define FTP “services” with a name, a hostname, a username, a password and even an optional path. There is no immediate plan to add a graphical configuration tool to mintUpload but it will be possible to add FTP services by simply adding files in /etc/linuxmint/minUpload/services/. Here is an example:

type=FTP
name=My FTP Server
host=myftp.mydomain.com
user=me
pass=topsecret
path=uploadDirectory

FTP support in mintUpload will be one of the featured improvements coming with Mint 6 and it will also be backported to Linux Mint 5 Elyssa. It already works “in lab” and a package should hit the Romeo repositories this week.

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