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Multimedia capabilities
- Select
System -> Adept Manager
- Search for
restricted
- Depending on your Ubuntu branch (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu), select
[branch]-restricted-extras and mark it to install. For Kubuntu by example - it would be kubuntu-restricted-extras .
compiz - or 3D Effects
If you want to enable the 3D Effects in Kubuntu - you'll need to install the following packages.
sudo aptitude install compiz compiz-kde emerald compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon
compizconfig-settings-manager will install loads of Gnome libraries - but that should not be the matter with nowadays harddisk sizes.
After installation is complete - go to Start -> System -> Compiz Fusion Icon and start it. Go with the right mouse button on it and start compiz.
Skype
- Select
Synaptic ->Repositories -> Third Party Software -> + ADD
- Paste this into the APT Line:
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
- Then search for
Skype , check the corresponding box and then click Install
Google Earth / Desktop
- Download PGP Key : linux_signing_key.pub
- Select
Synaptic -> Repositories -> Authentication -> + IMPORT KEY FILE
- Browse to the directory where you downloaded linux_signing_key.pub and select that
- Select
Synaptic -> Repositories -> Third Party Software -> + ADD
- Paste into the APT Line:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
- Click
Reload
- Then search for
Google and install the Google applications of your choice
VMware Server (Run Windows and Windows applications in Ubuntu 7.10)
- Register for a VMware Server serial number here.
- from terminal
sudo apt-get install build-essential
- download VMware Server for Linux - Binary (.tar.gz) here.
- from terminal cd dir to the downloaded file and type
tar zvxf VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz
- from terminal
cd vmware-server-distrib/
- from terminal
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
- hit the
enter key for every question asked, if question doesn't accept the Enter key then select Yes .
- Run VMware Server by selecting
Applicatoins -> System Tools -> VMware Server Console
Virtual Box
Add one of the following lines according to your distribution to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian gutsy non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian feisty non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian edgy non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian dapper non-free
The innotek public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here. You can add this key with
apt-key add innotek.asc
The key fingerprint is
6947 BD50 026A E8C8 9AC4 09FD 390E C3FF 927C CC73
innotek GmbH (archive signing key)
You will need to install some additional libraries on your Linux system in order to run VirtualBox - in particular, you will need libxalan-c, libxerces-c and version 5 of libstdc++. How to install these will depend on the Linux distribution you are using. On gutsy a
sudo aptitude install virtualbox
is enough.
Check the homepage of the virtualbox project for more details.
Multimedia stuff
as the VLC player - check out VLC media player for Ubuntu Linux homepage.
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Entered by smurphy on Friday, 19 October 2007 @ 20:40:39
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Ubuntu (Kubuntu,Ubuntu,Xubuntu) - Linux Distribution Specific, # Hits: 65614
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so - why use Microsoft Fonts ? Simple - most automated Tools generating these
Even if you use OpenOffice, you might still want all the Microsoft TrueType fonts so that documents created using Word or PowerPoint look as they were supposed to when you open them with OpenOffice. Also, with the Microsoft Fonts installed web browsing will be better since the pages will look as the designer originally intended them to. Most webpages are designed with Microsoft fonts in mind. The stylesheet specify these fonts. On Linux, when these specified fonts are not available on your computer, they are replaced with generic equivalents.
With these fonts installed, you will see the page as it was designed. To install the fonts, all you need to do in Ubuntu is to install the msttcorefonts package. Instructions for installation are given below.
The Truetype Microsoft fonts provided by the package include: Andale Mono, Arial Black, Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Comic Sans MS (Bold), Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) , Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Impact, Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Webdings.
Installing Microsoft and Liberation Truetype fonts on Ubuntu
You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the Universe component of the repositories. After you do that, use the following command from the command line:
$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts ttf-liberation
This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory.
After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command:
$sudo fc-cache -fv
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Entered by smurphy on Thursday, 17 April 2008 @ 16:23:28
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The short answer is: yes.
Best is to boot using a xUbuntu live filesystem, and perform all partition information changes.
Check the following partition.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 3766 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3767 4028 2104515 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 4029 24322 163006074 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4029 7296 26250178+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7297 14591 58593750+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 14591 24322 78162050+ 83 Linux
Now - I want to add another OS - in my case - Mac OS-X. So - in case you want to add the hfs+ filesystem partition between sda1 and sda2 - you have to move all partition bigger 1 to partition + 1.
this would result in the following:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 7415 39078112+ af Unknown
/dev/sda3 7416 10000 20764012+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 10001 24321 115033432+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 10001 10262 2104452 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 10263 13041 22322286 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 13042 19121 48837568+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 19122 24321 41768968+ 83 Linux
Now - to be able to boot up the move OS - you will need to modify 1 file, and recreate the initrd file.
For this - check the uid of the swap partition with:
$ sudo blkid | grep swap
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="0bb117bb-d03e-4674-99ef-97a3575ed8f1"
Check that the UUID in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resum matches the UUID just discovered. If not - change it.
After that - recreate the initrd file with:
sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.24-19-generic
Make also sure that the parition UUID's as found in the /etc/fstab match the new real ones.
And you should be able to boot again normally.
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Entered by smurphy on Wednesday, 09 July 2008 @ 13:17:05
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View all the packages installed on a system
The easiest way to do it is:
dpkg --get-selections
List files which get installed by a package
-L is a handy parameter to dpkg which will show you what files a package will install.
dpkg -L package_name
In case the package is not installed - try out:
apt-file list file_name
You may need to install apt-file first though.
Upgrade your system using a one-liner
Type as root:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Sometimes you need to compile from source a newer version of an application which is already included in the repositories. For example, to install the development libraries for BasKet, you would run as root:
apt-get build-dep basket
Remove unused package files
When you install software using APT, the DEB packages are kept inside the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. In time, the size of it could get very large. To clean the unneeded files:
apt-get clean
In case you want to have some more details - check out this link
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Entered by smurphy on Tuesday, 28 October 2008 @ 11:44:05
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Ubuntu (Kubuntu,Ubuntu,Xubuntu) - Linux Distribution Specific, # Hits: 62740
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This is not an issue. Just make sure you boot from a Live-CD, mount the Filesystems accordingly into 2 Directories like new and old, and copy all files over. I usually use the cp command like this:
~# cd /old
~# cp -aRv * /new
Whan that is done - younneed to fix 2 Things.
- All hard-disk UUID's have changed. Identify these using blkid. Check the FAQ
- Make sure you update the /etc/fstab and /etc/grub/menu.lst files with the UUID. If the fstab entry is wrong, you'll get a Kernel panic - cannot find root-FS. In case the Grub Entry is not fixed, you'll get an error 15, file not found when trying to boot the kernel from the boot-loader
At the end - you have to regenerate the the initial Ramdisk using mkinitramfs. Check the manpage/google for your specific OS Version.
After that - you should be fine booting again.
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Entered by smurphy on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 @ 09:07:19
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Ubuntu (Kubuntu,Ubuntu,Xubuntu) - Linux Distribution Specific, # Hits: 61554
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