Me and My Ubuntu

GPicView - Fast image viewer

2025-10-12T02:36:00.000+05:30

GPicView is a lightweight, fast, and user-friendly image viewer designed for Linux desktops, particularly with LXDE and other lightweight environments in mind. It supports various image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and ICO. Its low memory footprint and quick startup make it ideal for users who want a simple yet efficient image viewer. In this blog, we will go through the detailed process

Do things Command-Line way in Ubuntu - part 1

2017-04-09T19:05:00.004+05:30

Ubuntu Commands for some useful tasksBelow some useful commands for carrying out tasks in ubuntu via the terminal are mentioned :-Resize imageResize pdfDownload mp3 audio from a Youtube videoConvert any video file to lossless "flac" audio formatConvert any video file to "mp3" audio format Resize image : convert -resize 50% -quality 99 IMG_20160623_203259.jpg output.jpg convert is in

Installing Sun JRE (Java Run-time Environment ) in Ubuntu

2014-03-17T02:58:00.000+05:30

Hi Everyone, Some-times ago, I gave you the installation steps for Sun Java ( Now Oracle Java ) for the Ubuntu Linux @ my previous post about installing sun jre . But now that doesn't seems to work even for me as Oracle has removed the binary ( .bin ) file from their website . Even the steps given at https://www.java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml or the

Installing Oracle XE on Ubuntu 32-bit

2013-03-15T08:00:00.044+05:30

For successful installation of Oracle XE on Ubuntu 32-bit, following requirements must be satisfied :- a) 512 MB RAM b) 1 GB swap-space c) 1.5 GB of free space in the mount-point containing /usr/lib directory. For installing the Oracle 10g XE R2 do the following : 1) Install the libaio1 package . sudo apt-get install

Notepad for Ubuntu

2012-09-08T01:10:00.000+05:30

Notepad for ubuntu !!! I think by notepad for Ubuntu, maximum Ubuntu users will think that I am talking about the default text editor i.e. gedit. But it's something different. It is something that is faster than gedit, uses lesser memory and is more similar to Microsoft's Windows' Notepad. I am talking about leafpad .

Installing Windows after Ubuntu while dual-booting

2012-06-25T15:10:00.000+05:30

If you ever want to install windows on your system and dual boot with your current ubuntu installation, you don't have to get rid of your current installation. You can do it without re-installing ubuntu all-over again. Note : You need to have a working internet connection for the same or you need to have following five files correspong to your system architecture (

Trouble-shooting oracle 11g installation on Ubuntu

2012-06-13T23:39:00.001+05:30

In my one of the previous post ( http://meandmyubuntulinux.blogspot.com/2012/05/installing-oracle-11g-r2-express.html ) , I told you about steps for installation of Oracle 11g R2 express edition on Ubuntu. But I found out that many of you are facing problems in installing using the given steps. So, I came up with an idea of adding a trouble-shooter post which can enable you to have a

Things I did after Installing my Ubuntu 12.04

2012-05-25T13:42:00.001+05:30

Although Ubuntu comes loaded with lots of applications but its default looks and applications may not suit everyone. Same was mine case. When I installed it , it simply refused to play any mp3 songs or any video. Reason of this is that Ubuntu policy is to

Installing Oracle 11g R2 Express Edition on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit

2012-05-10T09:00:00.001+05:30

Recently I installed Oracle 11g R2 Express Edition on my ubuntu 12.04 ( Precise Pangolin). But for this, I have to google a lot and had to install two times to get a fully working environment. So, I thought it would be better if I share my experience with my fellow ubuntu'ers so that they don't have to face the

Recovery of a deleted partition ( Part - 3 )

2011-10-12T20:29:00.002+05:30

As I have written in my last post ( http://meandmyubuntulinux.blogspot.com/2011/10/recovery-of-deleted-partition-part-2.html ) that the Ubuntu Live disk was able to detect all of my partitions and all my data but still I was unable to boot

Recovery of a deleted partition ( Part - 2 )

2011-10-08T18:00:00.000+05:30

Starting from where I left in my previous post (http://meandmyubuntulinux.blogspot.com/2011/10/recovery-of-deleted-partition.html ) , Testdisk has done wonderful job in

Recovery of a deleted partition

2011-10-05T18:00:00.001+05:30

My this post is coming after a gap of almost a week. Actually, almost for all the week I was busy in correcting my Hard-disk partions which I , by mistake,

Installing a 1 GB swap without partitioning

2011-09-24T21:46:00.000+05:30

Some software that you install e.g. oracle database XE requires you to have greater than one GB swap space. So, if you have not created a swap partition of greater than 1GB just because you have lot of RAM, you may land in a fix so as what do now . Although , in ubuntu , you can easily use GParted to create a

locating and correcting bad blocks/sectors of pen-drive

2011-09-23T20:11:00.000+05:30

Sometimes, we drop our pen-drive in some water container and our pen-drive either refuses to get detected or files not getting copied to it. We can use our Incredible Ubuntu operating system to get it working. Find below the steps for the same. Note : 1) It is a time-consuming process. Use the 2nd steps

Installing Sun JRE (Java Run-time Environment ) in Ubuntu

2011-09-22T12:58:00.000+05:30

Installing Sun JRE (Java Run-time Environment ) in Ubuntu # Steps to install Sun JRE : 1) Download the bin file ( Linux self-extracting ) from here : http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp 2) make the file executable : Code: chmod u+x <file> 3) Get the root access : Code: sudo -s (

Firewall in Ubuntu

2011-09-21T00:09:00.000+05:30

Ubuntu , as with all post 2.2/2.4 kernel Linux distributions comes with the netfilter/iptables framework. This framework is a set of kernel modules that can be utilized to create packet filtering rules at the kernel level. Rules are written in iptables format, which is the method of conveyance of instructions to netfilter, and in essence the Linux Kernel.

Installing minimal form of ubuntu

2011-09-21T00:01:00.000+05:30

The Minimal CD will download packages from online archives at installation time instead of providing them on the install CD itself. Downloading packages at install time reduces the size of the install CD to approximately 5 to 20MB depending on architecture (see below), as well as providing only the packages