Ubuntu Partition Managing

Despite tons of manuals and documentation, here’s a nice post about partition managing in Ubuntu (italian only). It’s a summary of main commands in partition creating, editing, mounting, etc…Thanks to Ubuntu Block Notes.

DVDStyler Installation under Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

If you need of a good DVD authoring software try DVDStyler. Follow next step for installation :

Cinelerra Installation under Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

Hi. In the last period,I was very busy and I had no time to watch TV. So I decided to record my favorite TV programs and to watch them in a second time.

Bluetooth headset with Ubuntu, Skype and VoIP applications

Few days ago I received a Bluetooth headset not branded but with a generic HT718 indication.

Qcad printing Ubuntu

Qcad is an interesting and easy-to-use CAD software to make mechanical or architectural drawings.

Baobab

Baobab is an interesting utility which allows to monitor graphically the disk space usage in your Ubuntu box.

Bluetooth configuration Ubuntu Feisty

If you want to transfer images from your mobile phone or other bluetooth devices to your Ubuntu box, follow this simple instructions and enjoy (only italian)

http://lazza.wordpress.com/2007/05/05/bluetooth-con-ubuntu-feisty/

Main steps of procedure:

Microsoft Truetype Fonts for Ubuntu

This interesting article describes how to install MS Fonts in your Ubuntu…. The advantage is that you can obtain the right visualization of web pages in Firefox and documents in OpenOffice….

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/installing-microsoft-fonts/

If you want to use your personal TTF fonts with OpenOffice just create a .fonts folder in your home and put your ttf files in….

PDF editing Ubuntu

An interesting link about modifying PDF easily under Linux (in italian).

http://ubuntista.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/modificare-un-pdf-con-ubuntu/

Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 Sun Java6 Installation

After few steps I installed Sun Java6 Rutime Enviroment in my Ubuntu Fesity 7.04. The installation is quite easy compared to previous releases of Ubuntu.

The first step is to update your repository list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the following lines :

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 7.04 “feisty fawn”
## Please report any bug on https://launchpad.net/products/medibuntu/+bugs
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free
#deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free


## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure and more to come.)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

Save the file and update:

sudo apt-get update

If you need only JRE:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre

If you need of the development enviroment JDK too:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Now you have to configure wich Java version use:

sudo update-alternatives –config java

You’ll get a message like this:

Ci sono 2 alternative che forniscono `java’.

Selezione Alternativa
———————————————–
1 /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.1
*+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Premi invio per mantenere il default[*], o inserisci il numero da selezionare:

You have to select (in this case by pressing 2) the Sun entry. If you want to enable Firefox plugin :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin

It works for me!!! Enjoy:-)