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How to Install Openshot Non-Linear Video Editor in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kola

2011-02-09T00:02:00.001-08:00

The Most Popular Non-Linear Video Editor for Linux Operating system is Openshot Non-Linear Video Editor. Openshot Non-Linear Video Editor.is included in the ubuntu 10.04 (lucid).

How to install in ubuntu 9.10
Add the Repository

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.devellopers/ppa

Then add the key

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys B9BA26FA

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install openshot

How to install Latest Version of Wine in Ubuntu Linux

2011-02-09T00:02:00.000-08:00

The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Support for shared 32/64-bit setups.
- Dwarf debug info support for better backtraces.
- More standard actions supported in MSI.
- Support for TIFF image format in WinCodecs.
- A number of Direct3D improvements.
- Shell fixes for better Internet Explorer support.
- Various bug fixes.

How to install Wine in Ubuntu

First add the repository

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Now update the list
$ sudo apt-get update

Install Software
$ apt-get install wine

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Monitor system Status with saidar in ubuntu / debian Linux

2011-02-07T00:02:00.000-08:00

saidar is a text based tool for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information.

how to install saidar in ubuntu / debian
$ sudo apt-get install saidar

Essential Keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu Linux

2011-02-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

Keyboard Shortcuts will increse your efficiency of Computer user. Here you can see some essential shortcuts for ubuntu

Desktop Shortcuts

* Alt + F1: Open main menu.Use up/down/right/left arrow keys to select in Applications/Places/System.
* Alt + F2: Run Application.This will bring up a window,type command to run an application.
* Print Screen: Make a screenshot of whole screen.
* Alt + Print Screen: Make a screenshot of current window.

Windows Short Cuts

* Alt + F4: Close the current window.
* Alt+F5 Returns window to 'normal' or previous size.
* Alt+F7 Moves the current window
* Alt+F8 Resizes current window
* Ctrl + Alt + d: This will minimize all windows and apps,and bring you to desktop.
* Alt + F9: Minimize the current window.
* Alt + F10: Maximize the current window.
* Alt + Tab: Switch in windows.

System Short Cuts

Ctrl + Alt + Delete - Restart the computer immediately, without saving open files
Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace-Restart X Windows
Ctrl + Alt + Plus (numeric keypad) - Rotate through supported screen resolutions
Ctrl + Alt + Minus (numeric keypad) - Rotate backwards through supported screen resolutions
Ctrl + Alt + F1 --- F5 - Open Virtual Terminal
Ctrl + Alt + F7 - Return to Graphics screen from Virtual Terminal

Tutorial on Usage of Tar utility in Ubuntu/Debian/Mandriva/Fedora/OpenSuse Linux

2011-02-06T00:03:00.001-08:00

A linux power user must know about the file compression utility tar. tar is used to store and extract files from and to an archive file. Mainly source codes distributed in tar format. Here some examples of tar usage

Create ( Archive) a tar file from a set of files :

tar -cvf tarfile.tar /var/log/samba /var/log/messages

Create a gzip file from a set of files (.tar.gz file):

tar -cvzf file.tar.gz /var/log/samba /var/log/messages

create bzip2 file from a set of files (.tar.bz2 file):

tar -cvjf file.tar.bz2 /var/log/samba /var/log/messages

Display the content of an ordinary tar file:

tar -tvf filename.tar

tar -tvzf filename.tar.gz

tar -tvjf filename.tar.bz2

Extract an ordinary tar file:

tar -xvf filename.tar

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz

tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2

Replace a file in an existing tar file:

tar -rvf tarfile.tar filetoreplace

Update a file in an existing tar file:

tar -uvf tarfile.tar newfile

dstat - Versatile resource statistics tool for Ubuntu / Debian Linux

2011-02-06T00:03:00.000-08:00

Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, nfsstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat. Dstat covers some of their limitations and adds some extra features and flexibility. Dstat can easily monitor systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.
Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly with the disk throughput (in the same interval).

External plugins for dstat

dstat_app - the most expensive process on the system
dstat_battery - the percentage of battery charge (needs ACPI)
dstat_cpufreq - the CPU frequency (needs ACPI)
dstat_dbus - the number of dbus connections (needs python-dbus)
dstat_freespace - see the disk usage per partition
dstat_gpfs - the GPFS read/write IO
dstat_gpfsop - the GPFS filesystem operations
dstat_nfs3 - the NFS v3 client operations
dstat_nfs3op - the extended NFS v3 client operations
dstat_nfsd3 - the NFS v3 server operations
dstat_nfsd3op - the extended NFS v3 server operations
dstat_postfix - counters of the differnt queues (needs postfix)
dstat_rpc - RPC client calls
dstat_rpcd - RPC server calls
dstat_sendmail - counters of the queue (needs sendmail)
dstat_thermal - CPU temperature
dstat_utmp - number of utmp sessions (needs python-utmp)
dstat_wifi - wireless link quality and signal/noise ratio (needs python-wifi)

Install dstat in ubuntu 9.04

$sudo apt-get install dstat

eg:

$ dstat -M time,cpu,net,disk,sys,load,proc,topcpu

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Typing Tutor for ubuntu / Debian Linux : Klavaro

2011-02-05T00:02:00.000-08:00

Klavaro is a FREE Software for learning Typewriting. It will help you to learn Typewriting in systematic way, quickly and correctly in QWERTY keyboard. It also support other languages and keyboard formats.

Klavaro Features:
* Internationalization
* Ready to use keyboard layouts
* Basic course
* Adaptability exercises
* Velocity exercises
* Fluidness exercises
* Progress charts
* Keyboard Layout Editor
* Semi-online contest
* Clean graphical interface

How to install in Ubuntu / Debian
$ sudo apt-get install klavaro

If you want to run semi online contest you have to install libcurl3

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3

How to Install Viewnior awesome image viewer for ubuntu linux

2011-02-05T00:01:00.001-08:00

Viewnior is an image viewer program. It is simple, fast and elegant. It's simple interface provides more screenspace for your images. Among its features are:

* Fullscreen & Slideshow
* Rotate, flip, crop, save, delete images
* Animation support
* Browse only selected images
* Navigation window
* Set image as wallpaper (only under GNOME)
* Simple interface
* Configurable mouse actions

Viewnior is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3.

How to Install Viewnior in Ubuntu

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xsisqox/ppa
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install viewnior

Kerala Entrance Exam 2010 (KEAM 2010) Answer Key And Solutions Published

2011-02-05T00:01:00.000-08:00

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Kerala Entrance Exam 2010 Answer key and Solution will be published . For answer Key and solutions please keep in touch regular on this site. Official site of CEE will publish after 21-04-2010. Some other sites are under the preparation of key. So please keep in touch regular on this site.

What is new in Fedora 13 ?

2011-02-04T00:03:00.000-08:00

Automatic Print Driver Installation : gutenprint-packages such as cups, hpijs and pbm2l2030 must be installed on demand when the hardware that require drivers are detected.
Color Management : Color Manager GNOME session is a framework that makes it easy to handle, install and create color profiles in the GNOME desktop

Easier Debugging Python : The gdb debugger has been extended so that it can communicate detailed information about the inner workings of Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes

3D Support: In Fedora 12 experimental support for 3D through-mesa-dri package-experimental drivers for ATI cards became available and has been expanded in Fedora 13 to support the systems through Nouveau Nvidia Driver.
PulseAudio Integration KDE : Fedora 13 offers a better integration of PulseAudio in Phonon KDE and KMix
Bluetooth DUN NetworkManager: NetworkManager now supports easy-to-use Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking (DUN) support.

Include include Gnome 2.30.
Mobile NetworkManager Status : The NetworkManager applet shows the current signal strength, technology (GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSPA or 1x/EVDO etc), and roaming status while connected to the cards which support this functionality.

Fedora 13 SC have KDE 4.4, GNOME 2.30, support NFSv4, RPM 4.8, support both Python 3 and Python 2.x, OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, the Sugar desktop 0.88 (famous for its integration into the XO laptop One Laptop Per Child project), Firefox 3.6.2, and Upstart 0.6.0.

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How to play video dvd Movies in Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

2011-02-03T00:03:00.000-08:00

The following Steps are help you to play Video DVD Movies in Your Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Fist You have to add mediubuntu repositories

$ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list

$ sudo apt-get --quiet update

Update Key

$ sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring

$ sudo apt-get --quiet update

If you already added mediubuntu repository you can skip above steps

Now install the libdvdcss library.

# sudo su

# apt-get install libdvdcss2

# apt-get install libdvdread4

# cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/

# ./install-css.sh

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2011-02-03T00:02:00.000-08:00

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How to Enable Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Linx ) Multimedia Ready (for playing MP3 , AVI, 3gp, DVD Video etc)

2011-02-02T00:03:00.000-08:00

Multimedia support like MP3, avi, 3gp , DVD Video Playback are not available in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) . Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) cannot included other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer. If you want to play a Multimedia file like MP3 in ubuntu 10.04 , read the following

Fist You have to add the medibuntu repository

Follow these instructions to get mp3 and other multimedia support on your Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).

$ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list

$ sudo apt-get --quiet update

$ sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring

$ sudo apt-get --quiet update

Now you can install codecs
Install non-free-codecs:

$ sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

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Install DVD Support by using following command:

$ sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 (see my previous post)

Now install MS Windows codecs:

$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs

VLC player and Mplayer:

$ sudo apt-get install vlc mplayer

How to Root login on Ubuntu 10.04

2011-02-02T00:02:00.001-08:00

Ubuntu root access was blocked by default for GUI. For Enabling This you need to reset password for root.

once password for root is reset. You can login root on GUI using Other.. option available on Login Screen

Use the following command to Reset root password

$ sudo passwd root

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How to Install Community Themes package in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

2011-02-02T00:02:00.000-08:00

Ubuntu has a bigger selection of themes to choose between? A Collection of beautiful and stylish themes you can find in the Community Themes package.

How to install Community themes in Ubuntu 10.04

open a terminal and type the following

$ sudo apt-get install community-themes

How to Install extra screensavers with XScreensaver in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx"

2011-01-31T02:12:00.000-08:00

XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for X11 containing more than 200 screen savers. This package is used by both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver.

To install XScreensaver open Synaptic Package Manager and type xscreensaver in the search field. Mark xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl-extra and xscreensaver-data-extra for installation and click on the Apply button.

or

$sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

How to Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

2011-01-31T00:03:00.000-08:00

 
 
How to Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
 
First You have to Download 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 
Install The following Libraries 
libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2
 $sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2
 
Now Install the pckage
 
$ sudo dpkg -i skype-XXXXXXXXXXXX.deb
 
If you have any error due to dependency Problem  do the following   
 
$ sudo apt-get -f install

How to Install XBMC MediaPlayer in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

2011-01-31T00:01:00.000-08:00

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox.
Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available.

How to Install XBMC MediaPlayer in Ubuntu 10.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc-standalone

How to install Download Manager - Multiget - in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

2011-01-30T00:03:00.000-08:00

MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI download manager for ubuntu / debian linux. It is Look and work like famous windows download manager flashget.

It supports resuming downloads, It supports HTTP/FTP protocols . It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. You can reconfigure the thread number without stopping the current task.

MultiGet runs natively on Linux, and it supports multiple operating system too. It was tested on many system such as : Windows XP, ubuntu ,kubuntu, xubuntu, Fedora, opensuse, mandriva, MEPIS , PCLinuxOS, CentOS, Puppy, FreeBSD, MacOS etc.

MultiGet is available from Ubuntu universe respository

Howto Install in Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install multiget

or you can use Synaptic Package Manager

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2011-01-30T00:02:00.000-08:00

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How to Enable Multimedia Support (MP3, Mpeg4, Divx, 3gp, avi) in Fedora 13

2011-01-30T00:01:00.000-08:00

How to Enable Multimedia support in Fedora 13

By default fedora will not support MP3, AVI, Divx, 3gp, Mpeg4 etc.

Simply you can add this features in Fedora 13

Open a terminal and become root or Login as root user, then run this command:

# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Install all other plug-ins

# yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg

After successful installation you can rum MP3 files

You can install Popular Media VCD/DVD Player with MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs Support by using the following command

# yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss

Doing this will also install a number of support libraries, including the libdvdcss plugin

Install Popular VLC Player in Fedora 13 by using the following
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install vlc

XMMS
Try the following for install xmms and make it MP3-capable

# yum install xmms xmms-mp3

How to Find the Most Memory taking process in Ubuntu Linux

2011-01-29T00:03:00.000-08:00

Some Times system administrators need to kill the memory eater process. When your system become slower, check the following command and find the memory eater.

Open a terminal and Type the following command

#ps aux | sort -nrk 4 | head

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2011-01-29T00:02:00.000-08:00

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2011-01-29T00:01:00.000-08:00

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