Download Rippedwire DEB package here.

Download the monofix package here.

Install the dependencies:

1. sudo apt-get install mono-mcs mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb

Install Rippedwire

1. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb

Go to Applications > Sound & Video> HandBrakeGTK to start HandBrake

Lama banget gak nulis di Blog…kangen dech jadinya…

Hasil Install Mac4lin

Iseng mikir saat mau tidur eh ternyata dan ternnyata aku kepikiran kalo windows biasa bisa jadi vista atau windows bisa bermacam-macam untuk mengyerupai OS lain….karna aku tertarik banget sama tampilan dan menu yang terdapat pada OS Macintosh yang interaktif dan menyenangkan buat aku jadilah aku berangkat jam 10 malam ke warnet untuk browsing cari theme (tempilan) Mac OS tapi untuk linux ( karena saya adalah gratisan forever “linuxer gitu”).
Pada instalasi kali ini linux akan mengkonfigurasi theme yang ada pada Macintosh jadi dengan kata lain theme punyaknya Mac OS atau sistem tetep aja linux jadinya saya gak harus mempelajari sistem secara awal lagi
Persiapan…..!
Dowload dulu di internet softwarena…ni yang saya cuplikkan versi terbaru lo…
Linux dengan tampilan gnome minimal 2.0 atau setara sama ubuntu 7.10
Kopi cream plus rokok….
Baca Basmallah….

Proses Intalasi….!
1.Download Mac4lin (Mac Untuk Linux) di sini
2.Ekstrak Mac4lin dengan perintah : $ sudo tar zxvf nama_fil.tar.gz
3.Berikut perintah instalasi secara berurutan dengan menggunakan terminal :
$ cd Mac4lin
perhatikan apakah ada file yang berekstensi nama_file.sh <—-file instalasi
$ ./ nama_file.sh
4.Setelah instalasi diikuti dengan baik dan benar selesailah intalasinya jadi harus baca Hamdallah donk…

catatan : file ekstensi .sh dapat melakukan proses instalasi di seluruh OS linus karena .sh merupakan jajaran source yang belum baku, dengan kata lain belum terikat dengan salah satu distro linux atau berekstensi .deb , .rpm dsb…. “JADI Mac4lin DAPAT DIINSTALL PADA DISTRO TURUNAN LINUX YANG LAIN” SELAMAT MENCOBA …

INSTALANDO SCREENLETS EN UBUNTU

Aquí les dejos un pequeño tutorial de instalación de los SCREENLETS para tu distribución linux ubuntu muy fácil de hacerlo y así le sacas provecho a esta robusta aplicación.

Los screenlets son widgets que son ejecutadas en un gestor de composición de ventanas, el más notable es Compiz (bajo Linux). Están programados en Python y son dibujados como vectores en SVG usando Cairo.

Su creador Rico Pfaus (RYX), el autor de Screenlets dejó de desarrollar el software, Helder Fraga (Whise), continuó el desarrollo con la corrección de bugs y añadiendo más características.

Ahora instalaremos una Sidebar (Barra lateral del blog en donde por lo general se coloca el BlogRoll, el LinkBlog y detalles sobre el blog en general.) de screenlets (como en Win) en linux (ubuntu).

Bueno ya que sabemos lo que son screenlets procedemos a instalar de la manera siguiente:

Primero vamos a editar nuestro archivo sources.list para agregar un repositorio de donde descargaremos los screenlets, abrimos la consola y escribimos:

#sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

y al final del archivo agregar:

deb http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu/ gutsy screenlets

Luego guardar y cerrar.

Posteriormente actualizamos nuestros repositorios e instalamos los screenlets, todo con la siguiente linea de comandos:

#sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install screenlets

por ultimo ejecutamos por consola el programa con:

screenlets-manager

Pueden obtener gran variedad de screenlets con daemon Yo uso la papelera de Leopard TrashScreenlets asi se ve:

Nota: si quieres agregar mas screenkets a tu ubuntu depués de haber hecho lo anterior simplemente agrega a esta ruta descargándolos de sus repositorios oficiales ===> /usr/local/share/screenlets/

( http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Category:UserScreenlets )
y esto es la sidebar para los Screenlet:http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Sidebar

Nota: toda esta instalación es para tu distribución Gutsy espero les guste

yeah, I actually did this a month or so ago. I started on my laptop with Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 and then reinstalled everything to get Hardy Heron 8.04. To get KDE 4.0 I first installed the Kubuntu Desktop using this command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

then, after booting into Kubuntu and trying it for a few weeks, I installed KDE 4.0 (or Kubuntu’s version of that) by using the Adept Manager (Kubuntu’s version of Gnome’s (ubuntu’s) Synaptic Package Manager) and doing a search for kde4.

First, though, you have to add this line to your sources list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main

(don’t forget to reload your sources afterwards!)

I actually installed several packages which came up, but all you need is one, which you can install through the terminal with this command:

sudo apt-get install kde4-core

Ci siamo trasferiti su freetimesblog.altervista.org

Clicca qui per leggere l’articolo.

As it is the case with almost all the computers today, mine comes with sensors to monitor its temperature. Ubuntu does not setup those sensors, but it is possible to enable them.

First, we need to install the libraries that allow Linux to read the sensors. Type the following command in a Terminal to install the libraries for the motherboard:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

To install the libraries for the hard-disk sensors, type the following command:

sudo apt-get install hddtemp

The installation program will ask you a few question. First, it wil ask you if it should run as a daemon.

Answer ‘yes’.

It will then ask which interfaces it should listen to. I put 0.0.0.0 to listen to all.

The next screen is related to the port: leave the default value.

The libraries are now installed and we are going to detect the sensors. Type the following command in a Terminal:

sudo sensors-detect

Answer “YES” to all the question. Be careful not to just hit enter, but to type YES (because the default answer for the last question is No, and we want to answer Yes to that one as well).

The sensor modules are going to be automatically loaded by default the next time we start up the comptuer. So let’s just do that.

We can now check if it works by trying to monitor the sensors. Type the following command:

sensors

It should display the temperatures for the hardware items for which sensors have been detected.

We are now going to add a graphical interface for the sensors. Type this command in a Terminal:

sudo apt-get install sensors-applet

Add the applet by doing a right click on the desktop panel, and select “Add to Panel”

Select the applet called “Hardware Sensors Monitor” in the System & Hardware section, and click on add.

You should now have the sensors displayed on the panel.
You can right click on any of the applets and select Preferences.
The first tab is for general settings, and the options are easy to understand.

For update intervall, choose a value between two and ten.

The second tab allows you to select the sensors you want to enable.

Actualització 8 Abril: Per aquells que no vau poder assistir a la xerrada de Richard Stallman els companys de GNUAB van oferir l’streaming de la conferència i ara la teniu accessible en format ogg o podeu veure-la directament a la seva web.

A part de les activitats amb Richard Stallman i la taula rodona sobre Software Lliure a la UAB, es preparen:

Dimecres 9
Gestors d’Aprenentatge (LMS) lliures. 10h. Sala Graus (Ciencies de l’Educació)
Xerrada sobre l’us i possibilitats d’aquestes plataformes de la mà dels ponents Marc Alier (UPC), Lluïsa Nuñez (UB), Joan Codina (UPF), Alejandra Bosco i Noemí Santiveri (UAB) i moderat per Carles Dorado (DIM-UAB). +info

Dijous 10
Install Party. 16:30h. Aula P-35 (Facultat de Psicologia)
Voleu instal·lar una Ubuntu Gutsy al vostre ordinador portàtil o sobretaula? És la teva oportunitat de fer-ho amb l’ajuda dels monitors d’instal·lació. Aps! i si podeu, es recomana que us inscriviu per assistir-hi

Per més informació visiteu la plana de l’Any de la Computació i el blog de GNUAB.

Nota sobre la gràfica: és el que a partir d’ara anomenarem al blog l’efecte Richard Stallman: duplicar les visites sense fer publicitat! Gràcies a tots

Oggi ho approfittato delle correzioni che Treviño ha fatto al suo script “makefusiondebs” per generare pacchetti deb a partire dai sorgenti git di Compiz Fusion per aggiornare i miei pacchetti ormai obsoleti alla versione 0.7.3~git20080323.

In pochi minuti avevo tutti i pacchetti pronti senza errori e li ho installati con un

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

e riavviato compiz. Voilà… tutto aggiornato e nuovi plugin disponibili.
Dalle prove che ho fatto, sembra tutto ancora più veloce, anche sul mio vetusto notebook.

Dunque, dato che l’indaffarato Treviño non aggiorna ormai da tempo i suoi repository (sperando che ormai riprenda con Hardy), vi metto qua un archivio contenente tutti pacchetti necessari.
Non vi resta che estrarlo in una cartella, “entrarci” da terminale e digitare il comando che ho riportato sopra.

Chiaramente essendo una versione git di sviluppo, non sono da escludere bug e piccoli malfunzionamenti… ma se vi va di aggiornare e sperimentare…

Here you are:  compiz-fusion_0.7.3~git20080323-ubuntu-debs.tar.bz2 Ricordo che tali pacchetti funzionano solo su Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” e architettura x86/i386

Edit:
Seguendo il mio esempio anche M0rF3uS ha creato dei pacchetti e li ha inseriti nel suo repository, sia in versione i386 che amd64.
Inseritelo nella vostra sources.list se volete avere dei pacchetti di Compiz Fusion aggiornati, d’ora in poi!

Die folgende Anleitung bezieht sich auf Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”, kann aber relativ unkompliziert auf Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron” angepasst werden. Näheres dazu am Ende des Beitrags.

Heute etwas völlig Nebensächliches für die meisten Blog-Leser hier. Ist eher für die Leute gedacht, die per Google oder anderen Suchmaschinen auf dieses Blog stoßen. Der Nicht-Suchmaschinen-Leser sei also gewarnt: Achtung! Extremer Technik-Beitrag! Wahrscheinlich völlig uninteressant!

Wie ich bereits im Blog geschrieben habe, habe ich mir vor ein paar Tagen ein Notebook geleistet, genauer gesagt ein HP 6720s (das zwar von Compaq produziert wird, aber trotzdem das HP-Logo trägt). Unter Windows Vista lief alles perfekt, aber es gab einige Probleme mit meiner geplanten DualBoot-Installation von Ubuntu.

Zunächst einmal weigerte sich die Gutsy-Live-CD, die Festplatte korrekt zu partitionieren und wollte immer nur eine neue Partition einrichten, meckerte aber anschließend, dass man keine swap-Partition eingerichtet habe. Nach einigem Herumprobieren ergab sich für mich folgende bequeme Lösung: Unter Windows Vista mit dem Microsoft-Partitionierungsprogramm (ist standardmäßig beigelegt; einfach in der Hilfe nach “Partition erstellen” suchen) die gewünschten Partitionen für das zukünftige Linux-System als NTFS-Partitionen erstellen (also schon mit der später angepeilten Größe). Dann die Live-CD starten und bei dem Installationsschritt “Partitionierung” Manuelle Partitionierung wählen. In dem folgenden Menü wählt man die unter Vista erstellten Partitionen aus (Achtung: Diese tragen nicht die Volume-Bezeichnungen, die man ihnen in Vista verpasst hat, man muss sie anhand ihrer Größe herausfiltern) und formatiert diese mit einem neuen Dateisystem. Jetzt klappt erst einmal die Installation!

Anschließend gab es für mich das Problem, meinen WLAN-Chip zum Laufen zu bewegen. Eigentlich hatte ich gedacht, dass die Verwaltung proprietärer Treiber unter Ubuntu Gutsy zuverlässig funktioniert, dem war allerdings nicht so. Ich konnte den WLAN-Chip zwar wunderbar einrichten, aber zum Laufen bewegen ließ dieser sich nicht. Trotz längerem Herumprobieren in diversen Netzwerkmanagement-Tools von Ubuntu war kein Netzwerk-Scan möglich.

Ein Hilferuf bei Ubuntuusers brachte Hilfe: Man wies mich auf eine Anleitung im Ubuntu-Wiki hin, mit der man den proprietären Treiber auf die Blacklist setzen und die WLAN-Verbindung mit ndiswrapper herstellen könne. Die Anleitung für Broadcom-Chips findet sich hier. Auf meinem HP 6720s liefen alle Schritte einwandfrei durch, nach einem Reboot wurden gleich mehrere Drahtlosnetzwerke gefunden. Bei Problemen mit Broadcom-Chips würde ich empfehlen, einmal genau die Anweisungen aus diesem Dokument zu befolgen, damit sind wirklich alle Fehlerquellen abgedeckt.

Nachtrag! Nach dem Update auf Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” ging das W-LAN erst einmal nicht mehr. Ich fand relativ schnell heraus, wie sich der WLAN-Treiber unter Hardy wieder zum Laufen bewegen lässt. Zum manuellen Start des Treibers benötigt man eine Serie von Kommandos in der Shell (für Linux-Neulinge: auch Terminal genannt, das Linux-Pendant zur Windows-Eingabeaufforderung). Es kann passieren, dass bei den ersten beiden Befehlen Fehlermeldungen ausgegeben werden. Einfach ignorieren und weitermachen.

sudo rmmod b43
sudo rmmod b44
sudo rmmod ssb
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ssb

Damit bekommt man erst einmal den Treiber wieder in Bewegung, allerdings wird er nun nicht mehr bei jedem Systemstart geladen – doch auch das lässt sich automatisieren! Dazu nötig ist die Datei /etc/rc.local (nicht der Ordner, die Datei!). In dieser Datei stehen alle Befehle, die beim Systemstart ausgeführt werden sollen. Um bei jedem Bootvorgang den WLan-Treiber zu starten, müssen folgende Zeilen in die Datei eingefügt werden (wichtig: die Zeile mit dem Inhalt exit 0 muss immer am Ende der Datei stehen, sonst wird das Skript beendet, bevor die gewünschten Kommandos ausgeführt werden):

rmmod ssb
rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
modprobe ssb

Jetzt sollte der Treiber bei jedem Systemstart automatisch gestartet werden – also alles so wie vorher!

So, jetzt ist aber endgültig Schluss mit Tech-Beiträgen.

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the most hated library upgrade – glibc upgrade in hardy

Here is the bug

When i had to upgrade systems usually the most hated part was doing it for glibc
and always was with fears that will crash the system , kernel upgrades went ok
most of the time but sometime an glibc upgrade made the system borked

Hoy me ha llegado de regalo un dispositivo bluetooth usb. Cualquiera de ustedes se podría imaginar que estoy hablando de un dispositivo dlink , lynksys o alguna otra marca de renombre mundial. Pero no, estoy hablando de un dispositivo bluethoot usb que ni siquiera tiene marca. También llamados acá en Chile como marca acme, chancho, chanta, etc. Pero como para un geek con tiempo pasar horas en el pc investigando pueden ser parte de sus vacaciones, es que me puse a investigar sobre el manejo del notebook con mi celular usando este particular dispositivo bluetooth.

El primer experimento que vamos a hacer sera conectar en forma óptima el dispositivo usb a nuestro ubuntu gutsy. Pese a lo que muchos podrían pensar no tuve ningún problema para que gutsy me reconociera el dispositivo. Pero para eso debemos instalar los siguientes programas:

$ sudo aptitude install bluez-utils gnome-bluetooth

Ahora por si la moscas …

$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

¿que vamos a hacer ahora?.. Ahora vamos a instalar todos los programas necesarios para usar nuestro celular como control remoto para controlar nuestros reproductores multimedia como amarok, xmms y rhythmbox. Se debe instalar un cliente y servidor de remuco. Este programa permite controlar los reproductores ya mencionados a través de bluetooth con una aplicación java instalada en nuestro celular.

Comencemos…

1- Descargas el .deb del programa que quieras controlar. Yo uso los tres asi es que baje e instale los tres programas.

Amarok

Rhythmbox

XMMS

Doble click o aplicamos…

$ sudo dpkg -i nombredeprograma.deb

2- Bajamos el programa cliente (java) para instalarlo en nuestro celular. Descargalo aquí.

El archivo que acabamos de bajar posee en su interior tres carpetas, cada uno con un programa cliente distinto. Desde mi punto de vista, el simple y el canvas son bastante buenos. Este ultimo tiene una interfaz gráfica en forma de reproductor multimedia. Las canciones se cambian con el joystick con la flecha hacia arriba y hacia abajo, mientras que el volumen se maneja con las flechas de los lados. El simple posee una interfaz gráfica mas “simple, obvio” en modo texto que es perfectamente funcional y se maneja con los botones de selección. Posee un menú lateral con el que se puede cambiar el volumen entre otras cosas.

Cualquiera haya sido tu elección tendrás que enviar el archivo remuco.jar a tu celular y dependiendo del modelo que poseas proceder a instalarlo. Seria recomendable que lo hagas vía bluetooth para que pruebes que tal el soporte. La primera vez que te conectas con tu celular tendrás que ingresar el pin que debe ser el mismo en tu computador y en tu celular. Yo poseo un sonyericsson y posteo las imágenes de la instalación del programa. En todo caso no es nada diferente a la instalación de los típicos juegos java que la gran mayoría tiene en sus celulares.

3- Una vez que tengas todo instalado debes echar a correr el programa servidor. Dependiendo del programa que quieras controlarlo tendrás que ejecutar el siguiente comando:

para amarok : remuco-amarok

para xmms : remuco-xmms

para rhythmbox : remuco-rythmbox

4- Buscar en el menú aplicaciones de tu celular el programa remuco. Obviamente tienes que echar a correr el programa servidor en tu equipo y luego el programa de tu celular.

5- Yo se lo que están pensando ustedes…. es una lata escribir el comando para echar a correr el servidor, luego lanzar el reproductor y luego el programa en tu celular. Bien… Yo me cree un script de esta forma.

Para rythmbox lo abrí un archivo de texto, pegue lo siguiente y lo guarde con el nombre remury.sh

#!/bin/sh

#Start both programs.

rhythmbox &

sleep 2

remuco-rhythmbox &

#Wait until rhythmbox closes.

wait %1

kill -s INT `pidof remuco-rhythmbox`

Luego cree un lanzador a ese scrpit, le puse un icono bonito y eso seria todo. Ahora si tu quieres utilizar otro reproductor, te recomiendo que solo cambies rhythmbox por xmms o amarok en el script anterior.

Eso seria todo, espero les haya servido esta pequeña guía.

saludos

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OS X is without a doubt the easiest OS for configuring Bluetooth devices. Adding phones, keyboards and headsets is (more or less) as easy as it could be. Windows is way behind. You can add your phone, but where OS X automatically sets up the phone as a modem connection, you will have to download some PC Suite crap or hack your way onto the phone. Ubuntu is somewhere between Windows and OS X, but (sad to say) closer to Windows.
So, to ease the pain, here’s a how to use your Nokia to connect to the Internet in Ubuntu. I’m using Ubuntu Gutsy Beta 4 and a Nokia N82. Everything should be pretty much the same for older Ubuntu versions and other Nokias.

Everything in the guide is really (that is, when you’re following it) without the quotes.

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1. Install needed applications
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1. Go to System – Administration – Software Sources
2. Select Third-Party Software and add “deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/blueman ubuntu bluetooth”
3. Close Software Sources. It will ask for permission to update. Yes, you’d like that…
4. Go to System – Administration – Synaptic …
5. Find “blueman” and “gnome-ppp”, mark them for installation and click Apply
6. When done, all open applications can be closed

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2. Configure Blueman
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1. Start Blueman from Applications – Accessories
2. Click Inquiry, select your phone and click Bond
3. Type the same pin on both your computer and your phone and the bonding should be successful
4. With the phone selected, click Other and select “Set trusted”
5. Now go to Edit and select Services
6. Enable Serial, check autostart and click the configuration button
7. From the Host dropdown, select your phone
8. From the Service dropdown, select “dun: Dial-Up Networking” and click Add Port
9. When done, Blueman can be closed

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3. Configure the dial-up
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1. Start GNOME PPP from Applications – Internet
2. Click Setup and write “/dev/rfcomm0″ in the Device field
3. Under Options, I recommend you check “On connect Dock in notification area”
4. Click Close
5. If you have gotten your own unique username, password and phone number, write those in
6. Otherwise, write your phone number as username and password and *99***# as phone number”"
7. “Remember password” must be checked (this is a bug)
8. Now, click Connect

How to connect in the future

1. Start GNOME PPP and click Connect

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UPDATE 8th of May 08

How to use the data cable / usb cable instead of bluetooth

1. Connect the phone with the cable
2. In 3.2, where you type /dev/rfcomm0, click Detect instead.
3. Close and Connect

postfix+dovecot howto for an small mail server (router too)

our aging rh9 mail server started to show it’s caps age and started to fail (p3@350Mhz with 256M ram and 2G hdd)
on each day (hw errors) so we are switching to an more modern ubuntu gutsy on an
p4@1.6Ghz (712M ram) and 40G WD drive

Old config was sendmail+pop3+shorewall
The new config is postfix+dovecot+shorewall
Here is the guides i followed
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot
http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm

ps: some of the hw errors we had in the logs

WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present  hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat...:  2Time(s)  hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...:  2Time(s)

If you want to create .deb package from programs that must be compiled with
./configure and make:
Install *checkinstall* with apt-get

To use it:
Use ./configure and make, like you would normally do, but instead of doing make install, type checkinstall -D make install. This command will create a .deb package that can be installed (and uninstalled) with Synaptic package manager.

VLC is an “almost” universal video player.
To install it, as well as the VLC plugin for Firefox, type the following command in a Terminal
sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

If, after installing VLC, you cannot play some videos (with an error message like the following one), try installing gstreamer.

Type the following command in a Terminal

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

If it’s still not working, then type the following command in a Terminal

sudo apt-get install totem-gstreamer

And if it’s still not working, then try installing mplayer

sudo apt-get install mplayer

The final “extreme” solution would be to install all gstreamer plugins

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-\*

Here is some explanations on how to create a transparent terminal background in Gnome, with AllTray.

AllTray allows you to dock any application with no native tray icon into the system tray.

First, you need to install AllTray:
Open the Synaptic Package Manager

Click on the “Search” button, and type alltray in the search window.
Once AllTray is found, right click on it and select “Mark for installation”.

After the installation of AllTray, close Synaptic Package Manager

Open Gnome Terminal from Applications / Acccessories / Terminal.
After it is open, select Edit / Profiles

Press the “New” button.

Give the new profile a name (TransparentTerminal) and click on “Create”.

Uncheck “Show menubar by default in new terminals”.

Go to the Effects tab, select “Transparent background” and set the transparency to None.

Go to the Scrolling tab, and select Disabled from the drop-down list.

Close the editing profile window, and in the Profiles dialog, select the profile that you have just created from the “Profile used when launching a new terminal” drop-down list, and close it.

Create a new launcher on the desktop: right click on the background and select “Create Launcher…”

With Zattoo, you can watch TV when you do not have a TV, but a computer and an Internet connection. A package is available for Debian / Ubuntu, so here is how to install it.

Go to Zattoo web site (http://zattoo.com/), sign in and download the zattoo package for Debian / Ubuntu (.deb).

Right click on the downloaded package, and select “Open with GDebi Package Installer”.
Click on “Install Package”. Some additional packages may be downloaded.

Enjoy the TV on you PC from the Internet.

To install Acrobat Reader 8 and the plug-in for Firefox in Ubuntu Gutsy:

Add first the medibuntu repository (if not already done) to your list of repositories.
Start by adding the gpg key using the following command:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Then add the medibuntu repository to your sources list:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then, update the sources list:
sudo apt-get update

Then, install Acrobat Reader and the plug-in for Firefox with the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins

Some softwares for playing videos and music are already included in Ubuntu but some pieces are missing to play encrypted DVDs, and some video formats from Windows and Apple.

First, we need to add the Medibuntu repository: Medibuntu (http://www.medibuntu.org/) is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues.

To add the Medibuntu repository to your system’s list of APT repositories, type the following command in a terminal:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then, add the GPG Key, with the following command in a terminal:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update

To play encrypted DVDs, the libdvdcss2 package is essential. libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device without having to bother about the DVD decryption. Type the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

There are a few formats such as certain Windows formats, Real, and Apple Quicktime which do not have native codecs under Linux. The needed package is called w32codecs and can be installed with the following command:
sudo apt-get install w32codecs

That’s it: you should now be able to play DVDs and videos. If you want to install an “almost universal” video player, VLC is a good choice. I will report its installation in another post.

As explain in the previous post, I have found a first solution to make the sound card of my Acer TravelMate 6292 to work (the sound card is a Realtek ALC268). But, as explained in this post, the sound was set back to mute each time the laptop is rebooted. No very convenient, so I looked for another solution, which is described here under.

Second solution: the linux-backports-modules-generic
The second solution is to install the backports generic modules. Open a terminal and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-generic

Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

and add the following line at the end of the file:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Reboot, and everything should work (well, at least, external speakers and headphones are working, but I have still not tested the internal microphone or an external one).

As stated in a previous post, after the installation of Ubuntu on my Acer TravelMate 6292, I have no sound at all coming out of the loudspeakers or out of any headphones plugged in. It seems that this issue is not related to Ubuntu only, since I’ve had the same problem with some other Linux distributions I’ve tried (like OpenSuse 10.3 or Fedora 8). It’s more probably that the sound card (a Realtek ALC268) is not — yet — supported out of the box by Linux.

I’ve found two solutions to resolve, at least partially, this issue.

First solution: install the latest drivers from Realtek
The first solution that I have tried is to install the last drivers from Realtek. Those drivers can be downloaded from here. Go to the Unix (Linux) section and download the file to your hard drive (home folder is a good location).

Make sure that you have the last version of the Linux kernel as well as the libncurses5-dev by doing the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic libncurses5-dev

Unpack the file that you have downloaded from Realtek web site, with the following command:

tar -jxvf realtek-linux-audiopack-4.07b.tar.bz2

(the name of the file could be different, depending on which version is the current one).

Move to the folder that has been created:

cd realtek-linux-audiopack-4.07b

Type the following command to compile and install the driver:

sudo ./install

After the compilation, the installer will start and you will have to answer to a series of questions.

When the installer asked me to choose a sound card, I just pick the first choice (but I did not really know at that stage if it was the correct choice).

I let the installation configuring /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present

At the end of the installation, the sound card was not working yet.

But after rebooting, the sound was working (at least the front speakers and headphones), but each time the PC is rebooted, the sound volume is set back to mute. So, I looked for another solution, which I will describe in the next post.

To install Flash and the plug-in in Firefox, I have found out that using the Synaptic Package Manager is not the best solution, at least on my laptop: in that case, when I restart Firefox, the Flash plug-in is not recognised, and I still cannot display Flash animation from the Internet.

What I did instead is download Flash for Linux from the Adobe web site and install it myself.

After downloading the file, unpack it on your computer by typing the following command in a Terminal:

tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

Then move to the unpacked folder (install_flash_player_9_linux) with the following command:

install_flash_player_9_linux

Close any opened browser, and start the installation with the command:

./flashplayer-installer

Answer to the various questions asked by the installation program, and at the end of the procedure, Flash Player should be installed on your computer.