How many times have you reinstalled your machine? I know I long ago lost count. It isn’t that it is unreliable but, in my case, I often upgrade to new versions or reinstall to test things out. How nice would it be if you could clone your current installation and fairly easily reinstall to just… Read More »
Ubuntu Tutorials Presents – Ubuntu Book of the Week
Update : These steps do not work in Ubuntu 7.10. An updated tutorial is available here: Installing Adobe’s Acrobat Reader on Ubuntu 7.10. Recently I was asked how to install the Adobe Reader on Ubuntu. Personally I have always used the included Evince reader, as it has always served my purposed. However, as I found… Read More »
I recently posted about how to install Flashplayer 9 (beta) for Firefox. I wanted to follow this up with a few more detailed instructions, including how to fix the bug causing Firefox to crash when certain flash sites are loaded. Install FlashPlayer for Firefox To install the Firefox flashplugin use the following command (or see… Read More »
I recently started learning Java and found that I needed the Java Development Kit to be able to develop or compile any Java programs. Below is a quick outline on how to install Sun’s Java Development Kit v5.0 for java development on Ubuntu 6.06.1 or 6.10 machines. sudo aptitude install sun-java5-jdk You will have to… Read More »
The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required if you need to run any java-based applications on your Ubuntu machine. Many times this is required for certain websites and is always a good addition to your installed package base. To install the Java Runtime Environment including the plugin for Mozilla Firefox simply run the following command.… Read More »
This post is something that may be fairly basic for many of you, but extremely helpful for anyone new to using Ubuntu. In an attempt to be as comprehensive as I can with my tutorials I wanted to go back to the basics. Ubuntu (and Debian) use a package management system called APT. This system… Read More »
I’ve been using synergy for quite some time now. It allows you to share a single input (ie; mouse & keyboard) between multiple machines without the need for any type of switches or extra hardware. Everything is done over the network. This is great for situations where you might have two local desktops or, in… Read More »
I know I’m a little late on this news but I wanted to get it out there for anyone else that hadn’t been paying attention. Honestly, since the release of Firefox 2 I have switched back, but I’ve been missing some of the features of Flock so I took a look today and noticed there… Read More »
Many of you might be familiar with my post concerning How to install Flock on Ubuntu. I’ve been using Flock now for months and I really enjoy it. Recently, however, I noticed that a few multimedia functions that I had supported in Firefox were not supported in Flock, despite the fact that the correct plugins… Read More »