Ubuntu aren’t allowed by law to ship certain multimedia codec’s out of the box. But you can install them pretty easy Open terminal and issue command: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras The Ubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (sun-java-jre) with Firefox plug-ins (icedtea), a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia [...]
Let’s build a cool command line currency converter using google’s currency converter. You might require wget or curl and sed to do this. Read More About It
To install Skype on your Ubuntu System download the appropriate .deb package from the links below Install skype in ubuntu 10.04 via command line Get the package: For 32-bit $ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32 For 64-bit $ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64 You will need to install the following libraries. $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2 Now install [...]
1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file with an entry “deb-src http://host/debian distribution section1 section2 section3″ like this. 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get source This will download three files: a .orig.tar.gz, a .dsc and a .diff.gz. In the case of packages made specifically for Debian, the last of these is not downloaded and the first usually won’t [...]
Have you ever wondered if rolling up your sleeves makes you look like a hillbilly? Is it even acceptable in a business setting? Is there a right way and a wrong way to do it? Well, as a matter of fact there is. And there are even multiple ways of doing it the right way! [...]
