1. Connectivity 1) Bluetooth Utilities [Bluz Package] 2) Bluetooth File Sharing (in Accessories)* (Not necessary for Ubuntu 8.10 ) 3) Network Manager (or) 4) Wicd 5) Samba or NFS for File Sharing on Network 2. Sound and Video 1) Amarok – Audio Player 2) Audacity – Audio Editor like Sound Forge 3) Totam Movie Player [...]
Mencoder and cat commands are used to join the more than one video files .The video file may be .avi or .mpg. Here the steps for Ubuntu OS Step 1: Install the mencoder plugin sudo apt-get install mencoder mplayer Step 2 : Concatenate the files using cat command cat file1.avi file2.avi file3.avi > out.avi Step [...]
Some Websites (Except English and Unicode Sites ) need separate font software for viewing information.If the website has font download option then download the “.ttf” font and just follow the steps (You need root privileges for doing this) 1.Copy the (.ttf or .TTF fonts to fonts folder) # cp /home/user/senthami.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/ 2.Update the fonts database [...]
For Working with Java and its related program, we need to set Java path and homein user profile configuration file (after installaing jdk). 1. Goto Terminal and open any one of the following file # vim /etc/profile (or) # vim /root/.bash_profile (Instead of root you can also change your normal username) 2. Now Add the [...]
Common Steps 1) tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2 or bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2 tar -xvf filename.tar 2) cd filename 3) ./configure 4) make 5) make installOnly the first step is important here ( option j is used for uncompressing bz2 files) . Other things are same as tar.gz file installation. (Refer tar.gz installation article)
Software installation has some standard procedure in Linux OS . Before that we need to know about the types of softwares available in Linux i) compressed files –>These softwares comes with tar.gz or tar.bz2 format . this is like zip files which consist of original source code of that softwares ii) Binary files –> are [...]