Here are a  quick set of steps to install skype on Ubuntu 8.04.

• Download skype static from here
• Execute the following commands at the terminal:

$ tar -xvf skype_static-2.0.0.68.tar.bz2

$ mv /yourpath/skype_static-2.0.0.68 /usr/share/

$ mv skype_static-2.0.0.68/ skype

$ cd skype/

$ cp skype /usr/bin/

$ rm /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf

$ cp /usr/share/skype/skype.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/

$ skype

Sound configuration:

• Execute the command below in a terminal

$ apt-get install alsa-firmware

• Open volume control and click on File -> Change device. Make sure the Alsa mixer is selected.
• Click on Edit -> Preferences and check microphone, mic boost, internal mic boost — whatever applicable
• Try a skype test call!

26-06-2010 om 17:17 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

If you have a Picasa window open, or you have the Picasa icon in your toolbar, please close them before installing a new version.

$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386.deb

or

$ su
# dpkg -i /tmp/picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386.deb
# exit

• This package is only for 32-bit Debian / Ubuntu systems. If you are using 64-bit Debian / Ubuntu, please install the 64-bit .deb package.
• If you use NFS, when Picasa first starts, click File / Add Folder. Unselect your NFS shares from the watched list. Otherwise Picasa can get bogged down scanning all your network directories!
• To get Picasa to see pictures on your hard drive, click "File / Add Folder" (NOT "Import").
• When adding a folder to Picasa, the default action is to remove the folder from Picasa. You have to actively choose Scan once or Scan always.
• Picasa is not supported over remote X connections.

Wow, Picasa found all my photos!

When you start Picasa, it instantly goes to work, organizing all the pictures on your hard drive by date in the "Folders on Disk" collection. If Picasa finds folders you don't want, go into File > Add Folder to tell it which folders to scan once, scan always or remove. To remove individual pictures from your library, simply select a photo and right-click to delete it permanently from your computer or hide it from Picasa.

Visit the Picasa for Linux FAQs

26-06-2010 om 17:07 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

Het is nog geen stabiele release, maar een een testversie voor ontwikkelaars. Toch verleent Google nu officieel zijn naam aan de Linux- en Mac-versie. De Linux- en Mac-varianten van Chrome hebben nog wel enige privacy-problemen. Een 64-bits versie van Chrome voor Ubuntu is er ook al. Google zelf zegt dat je deze versies nog beter niet voor dagelijks gebruik kunt downloaden.

Download officiële Google Chrome voor Ubuntu
Download 64-bits versie Google Chrome voor Ubuntu
Download Google Chrome voor Mac OS X

26-06-2010 om 11:10 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

For Ubuntu 9.10 Users

Open the command prompt and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

Update source list

sudo apt-get update

Install firefox 3.6

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

For Other ubuntu version Users

First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the one of the following lines

For Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Users

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

For Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) Users

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

For Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Users

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

Save and exit the file

Now you need to add PPA GPG key

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

Install Firefox 3.6

sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

If you already have a version of Firefox 3.5 installed from a repo then upgrade using the following command

sudo apt-get upgrade

26-06-2010 om 10:52 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys KEY
gpg --export --armor KEY | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

26-06-2010 om 10:35 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

26-06-2010 om 10:26 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

This guide shows how you can install the new OpenOffice 3.0.0 office suite on your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Your current OpenOffice installation will not be removed unless you uninstall it with Synaptic or on the command line, so you can run both versions in parallel if you like.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Installing OpenOffice 3.0.0

Visit http://www.openoffice.org/ and go to the download section; select the Linux DEB download for your language...

... and save it to your hard drive (e.g. on the desktop):

After the download has finished, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)...

... and go to the directory where you've saved OpenOffice 3.0 (I've saved it on my desktop, /home/falko/Desktop/):

cd /home/falko/Desktop/

Uncompress the archive...

tar xvfz OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

... and go to the directory that contains all the .deb packages...

cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/

... and install them with one single command:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

If you have decided to uninstall Ubuntu's OpenOffice package (using Synaptic or the command line), you can also install the OpenOffice 3.0.0 desktop integration package (it contains launchers, etc.) as follows:

cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb

This works only if you have previously uninstalled Ubuntu's OpenOffice package (don't do this if you want to run Ubuntu's OpenOffice and OpenOffice 3.0.0 in parallel)! If you have not, you will see the following error:

falko@falko-desktop:~/Desktop/OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration$ sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb
[sudo] password for falko:
Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-debian-menus.
dpkg: regarding openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb containing openoffice.org-debian-menus:
openoffice.org-core conflicts with openoffice.org-unbundled
openoffice.org-debian-menus provides openoffice.org-unbundled and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org-debian-menus
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus_3.0-9354_all.deb
falko@falko-desktop:~/Desktop/OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration$

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After you've successfully installed the desktop integration package, you can find OpenOffice 3.0.0 launchers under Applications > Office:

After the installation has finished, you can delete the downloaded archive and the OpenOffice directory:

cd ../../
rm -fr OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358 OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

2 Creating A Launcher

(This is necessary only if you want to run Ubuntu's OpenOffice package and OpenOffice 3.0.0 in parallel and therefore could not install the OpenOffice desktop integration package!)

Unfortunately, the installation hasn't created a launcher for OpenOffice 3.0.0 in our menus (the launcher that you see under Applications > Office is still for your old OpenOffice version), therefore we have to create it manually. Right-click on Applications and select Edit Menus:

Select the Office category and click on New Item:

Fill in a name for the launcher (e.g. OpenOffice 3.0.0 Writer) and then click on the Browse button to find the OpenOffice 3.0.0 executable:

Now that you have /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice in the Command field, you can close the Create Launcher window and leave the menu editor:

Now start OpenOffice 3.0.0 (Applications > Office > OpenOffice 3.0.0 Writer):

When you run it for the first time, you will be asked to follow the wizard:

Afterwards you can pick which OpenOffice program you want to use, ...

... e.g. OpenOffice Writer:

3 Uninstalling OpenOffice 3.0.0

If you want to uninstall OpenOffice 3.0.0, run this command...

sudo apt-get remove ooobasis3.0-base ooobasis3.0-binfilter ooobasis3.0-calc ooobasis3.0-core01 ooobasis3.0-core02 ooobasis3.0-core03 ooobasis3.0-core04 ooobasis3.0-core05 ooobasis3.0-core06 ooobasis3.0-core07 ooobasis3.0-draw ooobasis3.0-en-us ooobasis3.0-en-us-base ooobasis3.0-en-us-binfilter ooobasis3.0-en-us-calc ooobasis3.0-en-us-draw ooobasis3.0-en-us-help ooobasis3.0-en-us-impress ooobasis3.0-en-us-math ooobasis3.0-en-us-res ooobasis3.0-en-us-writer ooobasis3.0-gnome-integration ooobasis3.0-graphicfilter ooobasis3.0-images ooobasis3.0-impress ooobasis3.0-javafilter ooobasis3.0-kde-integration ooobasis3.0-math ooobasis3.0-onlineupdate ooobasis3.0-ooofonts ooobasis3.0-ooolinguistic ooobasis3.0-pyuno ooobasis3.0-testtool ooobasis3.0-writer ooobasis3.0-xsltfilter openoffice.org3 openoffice.org3-base openoffice.org3-calc openoffice.org3-dict-en openoffice.org3-dict-es openoffice.org3-dict-fr openoffice.org3-draw openoffice.org3-en-us openoffice.org3-impress openoffice.org3-math openoffice.org3-writer openoffice.org-ure

... and delete the launcher in the menu, or, if you have installed the OpenOffice desktop integration package, run

sudo apt-get remove openoffice.org3.0-debian-menus

If the package names differ (e.g. because you've installed OpenOffice in another language than I did) and the sudo apt-get remove command displays an error, you can find the correct package names by running

dpkg --list | grep -i ooobasis3.0

and

dpkg --list | grep -i openoffice.org3

26-06-2010 om 10:05 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

26-06-2010 om 09:46 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

1. Nog steeds is het installatie bestand (een *.deb) te downloaden op deze pagina van ING.Be. Sla het bestand op in je persoonlijke map (home folder).

2. Open een terminal venster en voer volgend commando uit (op moment van schrijven is de versie 3.33):
sudo dpkg -i HomeBank333.deb

3. Ga nu naar /opt/HomeBank:
cd /opt/HomeBank

4. Als je te vlug op de zaken voorloopt en je start HomeBank krijg je deze fout: “error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3 : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory“. HomeBank heeft libtiff.so.3 nodig, maar Ubuntu bezit enkel libtiff.so.4. We verhelpen dit probleempje door een symbolische link van versie 3 naar versie 4 aan te leggen.
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libtiff.so.4 libtiff.so.3

5. Een volgende fout die je zou krijgen is “Error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0 : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory“. Om dit te voorkomen dienen we nog een symbolische link te leggen (met dank aan Peter!):
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0

6. Als je HomeBank nu zou starten krijg je helaas nog één foutmelding: “error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory“. Dit komt door het ontbreken van “libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2″. Ubuntu zelf levert dit helaas niet meer mee. We gaan het pakket handmatig downloaden en installeren. (Met dank aan Peter voor de tip!)
cd
wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb

7. Als alles goed is zou het nu moeten werken. Start de module met:
cd /opt/HomeBank
./HBSecurity

Tip 1
Ik voeg aan het menu “Toepassingen – Internet” steeds ook een snelkoppeling toe naar de veiligheidsmodule. Dit is niet noodzakelijk, maar eens zo handig:
- klik rechts op het menu (Toepassingen),
- klik op “Menu’s bewerken”,
- ga naar “Internet” en klik op “Nieuw item”,
– Type: Applicatie
– Naam: HomeBank
– Commando: /opt/HomeBank/HBSecurity
– Als je wil kan je nog een icoontje meegeven door op het plaatje met de veer te klikken
- klaar!

Tip 2
Wil je niet naar het bankkantoor lopen achter nieuwe opstartcodes als je een nieuwe Ubuntu versie geïnstalleerd hebt kan je de bestanden “**********.bbl en .hbrc” van je oude installatie kopiëren en plakken in je nieuw systeem. Beide bestanden zijn te vinden in je persoonlijke map. Let op: om .hbrc te zien moet je eerst “Verborgen bestanden tonen” aanvinken in het menu “Beeld”.

26-06-2010 om 09:19 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel  

Prerequisites: add universe and multiverse repositories.

Open a terminal window and type in:
sudo apt-get install realplayer
killall gnome-panel

The second command refreshes the GNOME panel.

After that you can find RealPlayer 10 in the Gnome menu under Applications -> Sound & Video.

26-06-2010 om 09:09 geschreven door Glenn Vermoortel