Ubuntu Tricks 
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Here are five simple tricks for APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool used on Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu.
View all the packages installed on a system
The easiest way to do it is:
dpkg --get-selections
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Chris7mas about 1 month ago
Posted by Chris7mas about 1 month ago 
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Compiling Google Gadgets 0.10.12 in Debian and Ubuntu
Here are a few steps you need to follow in order to compile Google Gadgets from source on Debian and Ubuntu. To install the needed dependencies type as root:
Posted by Chris7mas 2 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 2 months ago 
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AcetoneISO is a graphical application written in Qt4 which lets you mount CD/DVD images easily. The formats supported are ISO, NRG, MDF, BIN and IMG. It does not come in Debian's repositories, but I will show you how to easily install, run and start to use it.
Posted by Chris7mas 2 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 2 months ago 
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Many people are put off using Ubuntu because of installation issues. Not that installation is difficult, of course, but for the true non-technical user, it’s equivalent to scaling Mount Everest.
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david23 2 months ago
Posted by david23 2 months ago 
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The only problem with this theme is that it's incomplete, and the Inherits field contains Tangerine, Tango and Gnome, and usual KDE icons which are not included in the theme will look ugly if you don't have any of those themes installed. So, before installing it, I recommend to uncompress the theme and edit the index.theme file, and change the line which says:
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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A few days ago I wrote a tutorial showing how to compile Wine 1.1.4 from source in Ubuntu 8.04 and how to install it. In the meantime, version 1.1.5 was released on September 19, and since the compile from source and install procedure has not changed, I will explain here how to install the last Wine release using the official WineHQ APT repository. What follows are a few easy to do steps for ge...
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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In this article I'll give a few explanations on how to compile software for studying purposes on Linux (and particularly Ubuntu), what are the most common ways, what I consider to be the most effective method and which are the most popular applications to use for programming in those languages.
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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PyTube is a GUI for various command-line tools such as:youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and others.It allows you to resize, rotate, apply an external mp3 into a video, generate a 10 to 30 seconds mp3 ring tone.
Posted by david23 3 months ago
Posted by david23 3 months ago 
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Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Wine 0.9.59, which is already pretty old. In the meantime, the latest development version of Wine is 1.1.4, which was released on September 5, 2008. In order to compile Wine from source and install it on Ubuntu, you will only need to follow several easy steps I list below:
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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KDocker comes handy when you want to embed some graphical application in the system tray, given that the respective application does not come with its own feature to put it in the tray. Although not updated since 2005, the last version released on April 5, 2005, is good enough and, according to the official website, it works with all the window managers that conform with the NET WM standard. To...
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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