Building PDF output in a Sphinx project using LaTeX on Linux

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Sphinx on 14 Dec 2021

I’m doing this on Linux Mint 20.2, but these steps would also work on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or derivatives.

My note-taking setup

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Note-Taking on 21 Aug 2020

An overview of my current note-taking set up using QOwnNotes and Nextcloud. I also discuss programs I have used in the past like Zim, org-mode and Joplin.

List of useful software

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Linux on 12 Jun 2020

Linux powerline-go A powerline style prompt written in Go.

BioVM 18.04

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Biomint on 23 Apr 2018

A new release of BioVM with updated software, Galaxy configuration, documentation and includes recommendations for installing new software.

Conda

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Python on 04 Apr 2018

Install Miniconda 3 on Linux Download the latest version of the Miniconda installer (Python 3) from https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html Verify Download sha256sum Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh Ensure output matches the SHA256 is...

Running Galaxy project on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Galaxy on 30 Nov 2017

This is a step-by-step tutorial on running an instance of the Galaxy platform (v17.09) for biomedical research on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

An unofficial VirtualBox image for QIIME 1

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in VirtualBox on 02 Aug 2017

This is a VirtualBox VM I made for QIIME 1.9 based on the current version Ubuntu MATE LTS (16.04.3) with some additional improvements.