Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 12-04-3-LTS

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Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS

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Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Precise Pangolin

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related to Ubuntu, while the operating system itself is entirely free of charge, if you get really stuck at some point, it would probably make more sense to use paid commercially available technical support if you run into trouble installing Ubuntu OS than using a free how-to list, like this one. Here is a nice user guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/index.html (https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntuhelp/index.html) For more specific information (recommended): wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop (https://wiki.ubuntu.com /PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop) help.ubuntu.com/community (https://help.ubuntu.com/community) linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php (http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php) ubuntuguide.org (http://ubuntuguide.org) www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php) ow.ly/rymzE (http://ow.ly/rymzE) Download Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 32-bit (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2desktop-i386.iso) (Desktop) Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 64-bit (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2desktop-amd64.iso) (Desktop) Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 32-bit (http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.3-server-i386.iso) (Server) Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 64-bit (http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.3-serveramd64.iso) (Server) Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 32-bit (http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.3-alternate-i386.iso) (Alternate) Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 64-bit (http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.3-alternateamd64.iso) (Alternate) In addition they can be found at the following links: http://ubuntu.mirrors.pair.com/releases//precise/ (http://ubuntu.mirrors.pair.com/releases //precise/) http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/ (http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04 /release/) (Cloud images) http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/ (http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases /precise/release/) (Cloud images) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases /precise/release/)(Ubuntu DVD, preinstalled ARM images, source) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/12.04/release/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /ubuntu-core/releases/12.04/release/) (Ubuntu Core) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/12.04/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/12.04/) (Ubuntu Netboot) http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/12.04/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases /precise/release/) (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-active/releases/precise/release/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-active/releases/precise/release/)(Kubuntu Active) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/12.04/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu
/releases/12.04/release/) (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/12.04/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /edubuntu/releases/12.04/release/) (Edubuntu DVD) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/12.04/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /ubuntustudio/releases/12.04/release/) (Ubuntu Studio) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/12.04/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /mythbuntu/releases/12.04/release/)(Mythbuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/12.04/release/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /lubuntu/releases/12.04/release/) (Lubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/release/ (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases /12.04/release/) (Apple Hardware Support) Existing Ubuntu users can install Unetbootin (or use Startup Disc Creator) from the repositories, and use that application to migrate the above downloaded image to a USB Flash Drive or USB Thumb Drive and afterwards you can boot from your USB drive, or you can burn it to a disc with Brasero, or K3b, and boot from your CD/DVD drive instead. USB is much faster than CDs or DVDs when it comes to installation time, and less chance of data corruption. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu) http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/burn-a-dvd-on-ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com /download/help/burn-a-dvd-on-ubuntu)
Existing Mac users can use these instructions on how to install Ubuntu for the first time: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook (https://help.ubuntu.com/community /MacBook) http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx) http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/burn-a-dvd-on-mac-osx (http://www.ubuntu.com /download/help/burn-a-dvd-on-mac-osx) Existing Windows users can use these instructions on how to install Ubuntu for the first time if you are new to Ubuntu Linux. Avoid using Wubi. I recommend using a USB Flash Thumb Drive to install Ubuntu (Recommended): http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvnaLxw7fEg (https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=YvnaLxw7fEg) http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/burn-a-dvd-on-windows (http://www.ubuntu.com /download/help/burn-a-dvd-on-windows) https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/amd64/pre-install-bios-setup.html (https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/amd64/pre-install-bios-setup.html) Tutorial on how-to disable Windows UEFI Secure Boot if you have a newer Windows PC: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI) When you have your ubuntu.iso downloaded, and installed onto a USB Flash Thumb Drive, you will need to boot your computer from the USB Flash Drive (http://pcsupport.about.com /od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm). When you turn on your computer there should be an option at the bottom of your screen to allow you to change the boot order (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm) or you may need to select BIOS settings to boot from your USB port first, instead of your HDD. You can change it back to the default when you are done installing Ubuntu. You will need to have your newly created Ubuntu installation USB inserted in your USB port when the computer is booting up. If this is your first time using Ubuntu on your computer, please make sure that you throughly test everything with your Live Ubuntu USB drive to make sure everything still works on your computer before installing it to your hard drive.

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Okay, if you rebooted your computer after installing and your computer fails to start correctly you can try to fix grub bootloader with the following program called Boot-Repair.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-29-115329.png) Grub Customizer is a GUI configuration tool to allow users to change the Grub 2 settings without using the command line. The application allows the user to add, remove, freeze, rename and reorder boot menu items. It will also allow changes to the Grub 2 configuration settings such as background image and menu timeout. For long-time users familiar with StartUp-Manager, this application performs many of the same capabilities with additional options. It also makes convoluted guides such as my Grub 2 Title Tweaks unnecessary for all but the most devoted command-line enthusiasts!
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
Special Note: If your desktop seems to be running slow, you can switch your session to Ubuntu 2D by logging out, and clicking the little gear looking icon next to where you enter in your password, and click on the gear to change your session to Ubuntu 2D instead and re-login again to save your changes. They have done a terrific job updating the Ubuntu Classic Fallback Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 12.04 for those who dont really like Unity, and still long for the original Gnome 2.* Desktop look and feel. To install Gnome Fallback session DE (see screenshot at the top of this article), you will need to install gnome-session-fallback package using Ubuntu Software Center, and Synaptic Package Manager (which no longer comes installed by default either in 12.04).
To install Classic Ubuntu Fallback Desktop Environment:
sudo sudo sudo sudo
apt-get apt-get apt-get apt-get
install install install install
gnome-shell gnome-session-fallback indicator-applet-appmenu gnome-tweak-tool
Then log out and select GNOME Classic at the LightDM login screen. You need to click on the the little-round-looking-icon next to where you type your password to change your session to Ubuntu Classic Fallback session. And Gnome 3.x Desktop Themes can be added with gnome-tweak-tool. (http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=167)
Unhappy with Unity? Want your old school Gnome 2 desktop back? Just when you thought Gnome 2 was gone forever. Its back with MATE! More info here: http://mate-desktop.org/ (http://mate-desktop.org/) How to install older Gnome 2 clone Mate Desktop Environment in 12.04:
sudo sudo sudo sudo
add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu pre apt-get update apt-get install mate-archive-keyring apt-get install mate-core
Then log out and select MATE at the LightDM login screen. You need to click on the the littlegear-looking-icon next to where you type your password to change your session to Mate session.
Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux operating system based on Ubuntu but using the LXDE desktop environment in place of Ubuntus Unity shell and GNOME desktop. LXDE is touted as being lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient. Lubuntu received official recognition as a formal member of the Ubuntu family on 11 May 2011, commencing with Lubuntu 11.10, released October 13th 2011. If you really want something more like Gnome 2 was in Ubuntu, I can suggest trying Lubuntu as a nice slim retro alternative, copy and paste into Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-desktop/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
Now log out and select Lubuntu at the LightDM login screen. You need to click on the the little gear looking icon next to where you type your password to switch your session to Lubuntu.

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sudo curl echo sudo sudo
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc | sudo apt-key add "deb ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/so apt-get update apt-get install libdvdcss2
They are currently looking for new maintainer(s) for Medibuntu, if interested please visit: https://launchpad.net/medibuntu/+announcement/11219 (https://launchpad.net/medibuntu /+announcement/11219) Express Post-Installation Bash Script for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS If you have Ubuntu 12.04 freshly installed, and you have completely updated your system and rebooted your system (make sure to bookmark this web site first):
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo reboot
And if you have a broadband hardwired connection to the Internet (WiFi would take forever to download all the packages), you can use the following python script file to install most of the recommended packages you will need on your system that are found on the rest of this walk-through guide. You can skip this python script file if you prefer to install everything manually instead. It is experimental, so if you have any doubts about using a python script, you can move on to the following steps in this guide to install everything you want individually. Special Note: You will need to manually install Medibuntu above before using this script.
Estimated Time of Installation: 30-45 minutes depending on your bandwidth. Download Post-Installation Python Script:
cd Desktop wget http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ubuntu-1204-postinstall2-t cp ubuntu-1204-postinstall2-tar.doc ubuntu-1204-post-install1-tar.gz tar -xvf ubuntu-1204-post-install1-tar.gz sudo chmod a+x ubuntu-12.04-postinstall.py
Now you need to choose which CPU architecture your Ubuntu OS is running. It will be either 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu. For 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
sudo ./ubuntu-12.04-postinstall.py -c mycfg32.cfg
For 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
sudo ./ubuntu-12.04-postinstall.py -c mycfg64.cfg
Important: Keep in mind that it is going to take a while to install everything. Make some coffee. Watch some TV and relax while it does most of the work on this do-to list. Try to avoid using your computer until is it completely done. Make sure to reboot your computer and check for any further software updates with Synaptic Package Manager (not the command line) after you reboot your system. Make sure to install, and run Synaptic Package Manager and check for updates through that application at least once after using this script.

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Requirement) : Open Ubuntu Software Center and select Edit and then select Software Sources:
If you receive any update errors regarding your cdrom install disc make sure to go back to the previous other software and leave them disabled, and then update your system. Now open up Terminal and copy and paste (afterwards reboot your system and repeat this step until
no further updates are found do not proceed until done here):
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
You can set up automatic unattended-upgrades pretty easily by typing this in a terminal (and when it prompts you to select yes or no hit the left arrow key to select yes):
sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades
Adobe Flash Player (Prerequisite and Required) is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromising viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems. Flash Player 10.3 delivers beautiful HD video, faster graphics rendering, and high performance on mobile devices and personal computers and is designed to take advantage of native device capabilities enabling richer, more impressive user experiences. Open Terminal and copy and paste this:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer gsfonts-x11
Video Drivers and Proprietary Drivers Check (Required): Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
gksu jockey-gtk
If you are having video issues in general, make sure your video card is supported in Ubuntu: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux-display-ia32-304.37-driver-uk.html (http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux-display-ia32-304.37-driver-uk.html) http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx (http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx) http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/index.html)
/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) If your video drivers didnt install correctly or you couldnt find any: restart your system, and check again. If they still dont show up go to Ubuntu Forums, cut and paste the above results and do a hardware specifications pastebin upload and then post a trouble-ticket with them specifying what make and what model computer you are running and what kind of graphics adapter you are trying to install drivers for on Ubuntu. Be patient with them since they are all volunteers. They should be able to sort out any video driver problems you may be experiencing. Here is how you can upload your hardware specifications to pastebin for sharing with Ubuntu Forums support:
sudo apt-get install pastebinit dmesg | pastebinit
Copy the link these commands provide you with and post that to Ubuntu Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php) requesting technical support with your hardware configuration. Make sure to also provide them with your unity support test results from the first unity test above. Be patient as wait time may be 24 to 48 hours for a forum reply.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
And then reboot your system. Or you can try the latest unstable version. Open your Terminal, copy and paste (fyi- ppa purge doesnt work when you try to uninstall it however):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/nvidia sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
And then reboot your system. If you have ATI video graphics here is how to install your ATI video driver.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-08-31-200626.png) How-to install the AMD Catalyst Proprietary Drivers: http://askubuntu.com/a/126513 (http://askubuntu.com/a/126513) Alternative ATI Legacy Video Driver PPA installation for (for < 5000 series cards):
sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo
apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install linux-headers-generic fglrx-legacy aticonfig --initial
And then reboot. If you have a pesky annoying AMD watermark in the lower right-hand corner after rebooting your system, you can try to remove it with this bash script file:
wget sudo sudo sudo
http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/fixwatermark-sh.doc cp fixwatermark-sh.doc fixwatermark.sh chmod a+x fixwatermark.sh ./fixwatermark.sh
Or if that doesnt fix it you can try to edit the ATI signature file:
sudo gedit /etc/ati/signature
and just replace the UNSIGNED line with the following code and save (and then reboot), and if it turns out that the file was already signed, then you will have to figure out something else entirely than this patch:
9777c589791007f4aeef06c922ad54a2:ae59f5b9572136d99fdd36f0109d358fa643f2bd4a26
Disable any devices in BIOS you do not intend on ever using (recommended):
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/enter_bios_setup.gif) If you dont have any plans on using your internal Wi-Fi now would also be a good time to disable it from within BIOS to keep anyone with a Wi-Fi sniffer from gaining access to your system. Depending on the BIOS capabilities of your system you may also be able to disable Bluetooth as well, if you know for a fact that you will not be needing it and preventing anyone with a Bluetooth sniffer from gaining access to your system. (These are only a personal recommendation if you want greater
security) How-to access your BIOS settings: http://www.techbusy.org/tutorial/how-to-enter-in-bios-setup-in-pc/ (http://www.techbusy.org /tutorial/how-to-enter-in-bios-setup-in-pc/) Adding Medibuntu Package Repository (Discontinued) (Optional Alternative): The only thing this does is provide you with DVD codecs to playback DVD movies. If you dont have a DVD drive, or you dont watch DVD movies on your computer you can ignore these packages. To disable the Medibuntu repository and enable the libdvdcss one, use these commands:
sudo curl echo sudo sudo
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc | sudo apt-key add "deb ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/so apt-get update apt-get install libdvdcss2
Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW & GUFW) (Highly Recommended) is a firewall that is designed to be easy to use. It uses a command line interface consisting of a small number of simple commands, and uses iptables. iptables is already a very powerful tool by itself, but its syntax can get awkward at times and hard to figure out, so Ubuntu developers decided to make ufw (The reason ufw was developed is that we wanted to create a server-level firewall utility that was a little bit more for `human beings`.), which was to be simpler. Now, on the graphical side of things, Firestarter already existed. But why not make an even easier to use GUI for desktop `human beings`, powered by ufw?
This is where GUFW comes in. Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install gufw gufw
If you would like to simply use UFW from the command line, you can try any of these commands to make changes to your firewall. To check your current settings:
sudo ufw status verbose
To add basic firewall rules:
sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo
ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw
deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny
5353/udp 5900/tcp 22 25/tcp 135,139,445/tcp 137,138/udp 110 2049 143 21/tcp ssh
To block Outgoing Ports Except Those Needed (This configuration will allow the following outbound ports: 20-21, 53, 80, 123, 443 which is all that is required for many users):
sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo
ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw ufw
deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny
out out out out out out out out out out out out
1:19/tcp 1:19/udp 22:52/tcp 22:52/udp 54:79/tcp 54:79/udp 81:122/tcp 81:122/udp 124:442/tcp 124:442/udp 444:65535/tcp 444:65535/udp
Re-check your changes:
sudo ufw status verbose
Re-check enable (required):
sudo ufw enable
It will automatically load these settings from now on. If you need to access one of those ports temporarily, then you can open up sudo gufw and disable your firewall momentarily. Just dont forget to re-enable it when you are done. If you want to tighten-up your security even further please review:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1893751 (http://ubuntuforums.org /showthread.php?t=1893751) Here is a configuration script if you are running a server:
#!/bin/sh # obtain server's IP address SERVERIP=`hostname --all-ip-addresses | cut --fields 1 --delimiter " "` # disable firewall ufw disable # reset all firewall rules ufw reset # set default rules: deny all incoming traffic, allow all outgoing traffic ufw default deny incoming ufw default allow outgoing # open port for SSH ufw allow OpenSSH # open port for Webmin ufw allow webmin # open ports for Samba file sharing ufw allow from 10.0.0.0/8 to $SERVERIP app Samba ufw allow to 10.0.0.0/8 from $SERVERIP app Samba # open ports for Transmission-Daemon ufw allow 9091 ufw allow 20500:20599/tcp ufw allow 20500:20599/udp # open port for MySQL ufw allow proto tcp from 10.0.0.0/8 to any port 3306 # open ports for Lighttpd ufw allow Lighttpd Full # open port for network time protocol (ntpd) ufw allow ntp # enable firewall ufw enable # list all firewall rules ufw status verbose
For more information: http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/ (http://www.frozentux.net/documents /iptables-tutorial/) How to periodically scan for rootkits. Both RKHunter and CHKRootkit basically do the same thing check your system for rootkits. No harm in using both. Open a Terminal and enter the following :
sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkit
To run chkrootkit open a terminal window and enter :
sudo chkrootkit
To update and run RKHunter. Open a Terminal and enter the following :
sudo rkhunter --update sudo rkhunter --propupd sudo rkhunter --check
If you get a warning for unhide.rb rkhunter simply informs you the unhide.rb executable located in /usr/bin/ is a ruby script. It is perfectly normal and you can whitelist it in rkhunter.conf{,.local}. And if you are interested in further hardening your Ubuntu security (optional): http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-secure-ubuntu-1204-lts-server-part-1-basics (http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-secure-ubuntu-1204-lts-server-part-1-basics) How to change your privacy settings on Ubuntu 12.04 (Recommended): Open up the Software Center and install Activity Log Manager if your system doesnt come installed by default with Privacy options. Or you can cut and paste this in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager-common activity-log-manager activit
If you are using Fallback DE, it is located in System Settings.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-15-231527.png) How to change your Startup Application Manager settings on Ubuntu 12.04 (recommended) : Starting with Ubuntu 12.* the Startup Applications manager now only displays a sub-set of applications to control at startup with the remaining applications being hidden. There are many applications running in the background by default in Ubuntu and it only makes sense to disable the ones you dont really need to have running all the time. To make the hidden applications visible in the manager, follow these steps: Copy and paste the following command into Terminal:
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

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several apps that are running at startup that you can safely remove if you know what you are doing, and will save you time during bootup. And you can remove the following applications that you probably will never use:
sudo apt-get purge oneconf popularity-contest python-ubuntuone-client pythonsudo sudo sudo sudo
apt-get autoremove add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3E5C1192 apt-get update
How to get a missing PGP key after adding a new repository or if you need to find a missing PGP key during updates (optional):
sudo apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key in $(grep "NO_PUBKEY" /tmp/ke
Anti-Virus Windows equivalent : AVG AntiVirus, NAV, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky, Ubuntu equivalent : ClamAV, BitDefender ClamAV Clam Anti-virus (ClamAV) is a free, cross-platform anti-virus software tool-kit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner. The application was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64) and Solaris. As of version 0.96 ClamAV builds and runs on Microsoft Windows. Both ClamAV and its updates are made available free of charge. Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install clamav clamtk
BitDefender is an anti-virus software suite developed by Romania-based software company Softwin. It was launched in November 2001, and is currently in its thirteenth version. The 2011 version was launched in August 2010, and it includes several protection and performance enhancements as Search Advisor and Performance Optimizer. The thing I love about BitDefender is that it will run in the taskbar after start-up and has a resident shield that is always monitoring your system for any potential threats, not that viruses normally target Linux operating systems however. First you need to get a free scanner key (http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products /ScannerLicense/) here via email. It should be good for one year.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screenshot-bitdefender-antivirus-scannerfor-unices1.png) To install in Ubuntu, copy and paste in Terminal one line at a time:
sudo wget sudo sudo sudo
sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc apt-key add bd.key.asc apt-get update apt-get install bitdefender-scanner-gui
Once completely installed then you will need to reboot your system. And you will need to enter in the free scanner key (http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/) you received via email by running Bitdefender. Dont forget to bookmark this page! When you are ready to reboot just copy and paste:
sudo reboot
Before using the scanner its probably best to install the latest virus/malware signatures by clicking
on the Update button.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/screenshot5.png) Special Note: Troubleshooting BitDefender Scanner Engine Crashing Some users are reporting that BitDefender crashes right after the scanning engine is initialized. In order to fix this error you will need to copy and paste this into terminal:
sudo touch /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so.linux-x86_64 sudo ln -fs /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so.linux-x86_64 /opt sudo bdscan --update
To copy and paste your key that you received in your email, enter this terminal and then click save after you have changed your registration key:
sudo gedit /opt/Bitdefender-scanner/etc/bdscan.conf
As of December 2012 they still do not have this fixed in BitDefender for Linux yet. Hopefully someone will let them know by posting a message to their support forum? Thanks. For further BitDefender support please visit:
http://forum.bitdefender.com (http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showforum=170) Essential packages for running 32-bit applications in 64-bit Ubuntu OS (Required if you are using 64-bit Ubuntu OS):
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Special Note: If you are running 32-bit Ubuntu already then you wont need ia32-libs. Essential tools for compiling from sources. There are times when you need to compile software from sources, maybe because you need to compile the package with some specific option that is not enabled in the default package, or maybe the software application you wish to install isnt available in any of your repositories. When you begin the installation process you will come to a window that will require you to accept the EULA to install, and you will need to click on your <Tab> key to select <OK> and press enter. (Here is a guide on how to compile software from source (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=323939)) and here are the required packages you need in order to compile sources in Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall cdbs devscripts dh-make fak
Multimedia (Prerequisite and Required) Windows equivalent : windows media player, real player, vlc, mplayer, media codecs Ubuntu equivalent : vlc, mplayer, fluendo media codecs Unfortunately, many audio and video formats wont work out of the box with Ubuntu, or most Linux distros. MPlayer is a movie player that plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and PVA files. You can also use it to watch VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. It supports a wide range of output drivers including X11, XVideo, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB etc. There are also nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc mplayer
SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave. Dont worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, and volume. This is really great for watching DVD movies.
sudo apt-get install smplayer
FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash. Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg gxine mencoder mpeg2dec vorbis-tools id3
Gstreammer 0.10 Open your Terminal, copy and paste (when you get to the EULA prompt press Tab key):
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer
Check and see if you can now view DVD movie discs on your computer. If not you may need to set the region key and you are usually allowed to do this only 5 times (only use if needed, and very optional):
sudo apt-get install regionset sudo regionset
Or you can purchase the proprietary codecs from your Software Center:
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/selection_020.png) VLC blu-ray libraries: http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ (http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/) http://vlc-aacs.whoknowsmy.name/ (http://vlc-aacs.whoknowsmy.name/) Internet Web Browsers:
Adblock Plus (plugin) (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/) (Highly Recommended) Adblock Plus (ABP) is a content-filtering extension for Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox for mobile) and Google Chrome web browsers. ABP (http://adblockplus.org/en/chrome), a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Very popular, and almost what I would consider to be a necessity, if you surf the Internet on a daily basis. Works great with sites like youtube.com and other similar web sites that bombard you with constant commercials. It will also allow you to import preconfigured blocklists to stop tracker web sites from monitoring your browser presence. Password Exporter (plugin) (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/password-exporter/)
This extension allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported later. Very helpful when needing to re-install Ubuntu onto a new system or migrating your data and personal information. This works on any OS with Firefox browser and you can migrate passwords from other browsers with Firefox preferences. NetVideoHunter (plugin) (http://netvideohunter.com/) NetVideoHunter is a Firefox add-on (extension), and you can easily download videos and audio from almost all audio and video streaming web pages with two clicks. Tested and considered to be probably the best plugin out of all the other similar plugins available for this kind of task. HTTPS Everywhere (plugin) (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) (Recommended) HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Tor Browser Bundle (https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en) The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked. Alternatively, you can use this PPA to install Tor Browser Bundle: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/tor-browser-bundle-ubuntu-ppa.html (http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/tor-browser-bundle-ubuntu-ppa.html) Remember Passwords (plugin) (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/rememberpasswords/) Patches the original Login Manager to allow saving of passwords on forms which otherwise suppress it. A really nice time-saver. NoScript (plugin) (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/noscript/) (Recommended, but can be very intrusive at times) NoScript (plugin) is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, created and actively maintained by Giorgio Maone, an Italian software developer and member of the Mozilla Security Group. NoScript allows executable web content such as JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other plugins only if the site hosting it is considered trusted by its user and has been previously added to a whitelist. NoScript also offers specific countermeasures against security exploits. There have been reports of Java viruses/malware infecting Mac systems (Unices-based systems), so NoScript will stop that kind of problem before it becomes a serious issue on your Ubuntu OS. YesScript (plugin) (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/yesscript/) A very simple JavaScript blacklist. Lately, Ive noticed scripts not responsing on certain web sites (like abs.twimg.com and others) when browsing on twitter. If you recieve an error that says a script isnt responding (would you like to continue etc etc), causing your browser to hang/crash your browser -and- you dont want to use the above NoScript plugin because it can be too intrusive most of the time, simply cut and paste the offending web site address into YesScript Firefox plug-in, and you can surf without further problems of this kind.
Dictionaries & Language Packs (plugin) (https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/language-tools/) (Recommended) Spell-checking plugin for Mozilla Firefox browser.

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Additional Miscellaneous Add-ons for Firefox and Iceweasel BCExplorer for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-bcexplorer/) BrightCloud category and reputation info as you browse! Beef Taco (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/180650/) Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising by 102 different advertising networks (recommended) BetterPrivacy (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/) BetterPrivacy is a safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSOs on Google, YouTube, Ebay (recommended) BitDefender TrafficLight for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon /trafficlight/) Adds a strong and non-intrusive layer of security to your browsing experience BrowserProtect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/178769/) Protect your browser configuration against homepage and search hijacks CipherFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cipherfox/) Displays the current SSL/TLS cipher and certificate chain in the status bar. CS Lite (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/cslite-mod/) This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions. Ghostery (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609/) Protect your privacy. See whos tracking your web browsing and block them with Ghostery. GoogleSharing (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333/) GoogleSharing ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. HTTPS Finder (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/https-finder/) HTTPS Finder automatically detects and alerts when SSL is available on a web page. It also provides one-click rule creation for HTTPS Everywhere. Other features include an ignore-domain list, and auto-forward to HTTPS. Keylogger Beater (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161736/) Use it to keep your username or password from being stolen by a keylogger. LinkExtend (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10777/) Provides meta-siteratings for computer safety, child safety, company ethics, and popularity. Master Password+ (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/master-password/) Various enhancements for master password Netcraft Toolbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1326/) Blocks phishing sites, helping to protect users from online fraud anonymoX (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/anonymox/) Firefox add-on to achieve anonymity in surfing, using web-based proxy PrivacySuite (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacysuite/) One place to protect your privacy when you go online. RefControl (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953/) Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis. RequestPolicy (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727/) Be in control of
which cross-site requests are allowed. ShowIP (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/showip/) Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right click) and hostname (left click), like whois, netcraft, etc. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. Certificate Patrol (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol /?src=search) Verifies SSL certificates TrackMeNot (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3173/) Protects users against search data profiling Priv3 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/priv3/) Practical Third-Party Privacy for the Social Web WOT (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456/) The WOT add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser. For Human Eyes Only (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forhumaneyesonly /?src=discovery-learnmore) converts messages into images User Agent Switcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/) To switch the user agent of a browser and OS reporting Change IP Address (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZXKcBE4mw) How to quickly change your Internet IP address via new router MAC address (recommended)
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2013-10-12-222934.png)Openjdk 7 Update and Sun Java 7 JDK option The default version of openjdk with Ubuntu may need be updated. (Required) Here is the updated openjdk that should work for most users:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre icedtea-7-plugin
And then run:
sudo update-alternatives --config java
And then select /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk from the selection list and press enter. Now if openjdk isnt what you need and you know you need the proprietary Sun Java 7 JDK instead, use this installation script (optional):
cd ~/ wget https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/raw/0.3.0/oab-java.sh -O oabchmod +x oab-java.sh sudo ./oab-java.sh -7 sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-jre oracle-java7-jdk oracle-java7-plugin or
If you are behind a proxy you may need to run using:
sudo -i ./oab-java.sh
If you want to see what this script is doing while it is running then execute the following from another shell:
tail -f ./oab-java.sh.log
Thanks to https://github.com/flexiondotorg/ (https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6) for providing us this method to install Java on Ubuntu. Test your browser to make sure your Java is installed and working properly here: http://browserspy.dk/java.php (http://browserspy.dk/java.php) If you are still having problems trying to install Java and getting Java to work correctly on your system, please visit the following web site for further support: http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java (http://sites.google.com /site/easylinuxtipsproject/java) Archiver/ Packing software (Recommended)Windows equivalent : winrar, zip, 7zip Ubuntu equivalent : tar, unrar, p7zip, arj, unace
File Archiving:
sudo apt-get install unace rar unrar p7zip-rar p7zip zip unzip sharutils uude
Alternative Graphical Web Browsers Windows equivalent : Internet explorer, opera, google chrome Ubuntu equivalent : Opera, Chromium, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Beta
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-29-120727.png) Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds.
sudo sudo sudo sudo
sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" >> /etc/ap sh -c 'wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -' apt-get update apt-get install opera
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-12-223505.png) Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. The projects hourly Chromium snapshots appear essentially similar to the latest builds of Google Chrome aside from the omission of certain Google additions, most noticeable among them: Googles branding, auto-update mechanism, click-through licensing terms, usage-tracking, a built-in PDF viewer and bundling of the Adobe Flash Player. Chromium uses the WebKit layout engine. Chromium:
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-05-02-213708.png)

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. It uses its own flash plugin to play flash video/audio. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or chrome, of web browsers. As of June 2011, Chrome was the third most widely used browser with 20.65% worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to StatCounter.
wget sudo sudo sudo
-q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> apt-get update apt-get install google-chrome-stable
or if you want the latest developmental version:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
Chrome Plugins:
Adblock Plus (plugin) (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblockplus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb) (Recommended) Adblock Plus (ABP) is a contentfiltering extension for Google Chrome web browsers. ABP (https://chrome.google.com/webstore /detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb), a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Very popular, and almost what I would consider to be a necessity, if you surf the Internet on a daily basis. Works great with sites like youtube.com and other similar web sites that bombard you with constant commercials. It will also allow you to import preconfigured blocklists to stop tracker web sites from monitoring your browser presence. Remember Passwords (plugin) (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autocompleteon/ecpgkdflcnofdbbkiggklcfmgbnbabhh) Patches the original Login Manager to allow saving of passwords on forms which otherwise suppress it. A really nice time-saver. Remote Desktop (plugin) (https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j& q=remote%20desktop%20google%20chrome&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CG4QFjAA&url=http %3A%2F %2Fchrome.google.com%2Fwebstore%2Fdetail%2Fgbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp& ei=51PRT4L3Eury2QW58ciKDw&usg=AFQjCNG8JLkmUNmz-g3VWvmekvM_FXe5jg&cad=rja) Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet. HTTPS Everywhere (plugin) (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Reditr (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reditralpha/ejmiceoebcclihjdpnmmkdcmcboekibc) is to Reddit what Tweetdeck is to Twitter. And now you can experience it under any GNU/Linux based system thanks to Google Chrome. Additional Miscellaneous Add-ons for Chrome and Chromium: A Little Privacy (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /kjhmfidomefgpbbebodnbakelpabilga) Prevents passing referrer to third parties, removes redirect trackers, resolves short URLs, and more. Abine TACO (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cadbkmipeldjmjfcpcjibfjgflahmphk) Opt-out of advertising networks Block Mixed Content (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /ankgjoopnopeoeljehjkighfcfefalcg) This extension blocks loading of insecure active content in secure (HTTPS) pages. Chrome BCExplorer BETA (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /imhcbdomggfmhmaeicplciogjbfamkep) BrightCloud category and reputation info as you browse! Chromeblock (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /epanfjkfahimkgomnigadpkobaefekcd) Stop secret tracking of your web browsing Disconnect (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo) Stop major third parties and search engines from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do. Ghostery (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij) Protect your privacy. See whos tracking your web browsing with Ghostery. KB SSL Enforcer (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddckof) Automatic security, browse encrypted.
Keep My Opt-Outs (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /hhnjdplhmcnkiecampfdgfjilccfpfoe) Permanently opts your browser out of online ad personalization via cookies. NOREF (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dkpkjedlegmelkogpgamcaemgbanohip) Suppress Referrer (referer) for Hyperlinks NotScripts (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn) A clever extension that provides a high degree of NoScript like control of javascript, iframes, and plugins on Google Chrome. SafeBrowser (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neafifkhibfnafkphgjgahokfkfhbdmh) Sends the url of the currently selected tab to Google Safe Browsing to retrieve some malware results of that domain SaferChrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lgpkjjingioekjianemgdobchenebhek) SaferChrome makes browsing safer by identifying and preventing security and privacy breaches. Signature Check (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /loopfhgahilhlcjhdjbcilnpapbnfnnj) Allows users to check a certificate thumbprint against the SignatureCheck.org thumbprint to detect man-in-the-middle attacks that use valid signing certificates. SiteAdvisor for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /dckheglehcdhpjkdmmmghbgkcdebhhae) SiteAdvisor will give safety ratings for websites, this extension will warn you before you open threat sites. TrafficLight (BETA) (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /cfnpidifppmenkapgihekkeednfoenal) Adds a strong and non-intrusive layer of security to your browsing experience Unencrypted Password Warning (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /mjpinemnkjlppmemjfabdaelpfgfjgkj) Helps to prevent you from sending unencrypted passwords or credit card numbers. Vanilla Cookie Manager (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail /gieohaicffldbmiilohhggbidhephnjj) A Cookie Whitelist Manager that helps protect your privacy. Automatically removes unwanted cookies. WOT (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bhmmomiinigofkjcapegjjndpbikblnp) The WOT add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser. Hide My IP (http://www.hide-my-ip.com/) Anonymous browsing
(https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=remote%20desktop%20google%20chrome& source=web&cd=1&ved=0CG4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F %2Fchrome.google.com%2Fwebstore%2Fdetail%2Fgbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp& ei=51PRT4L3Eury2QW58ciKDw&usg=AFQjCNG8JLkmUNmz-g3VWvmekvM_FXe5jg&cad=rja) Google Talk is a browser plugin that lets you voice and video chat with friends and family from your browser. Install this plugin and logon to Gmail with your webcam and microphone attached to your computer, then initiate a chat with a friend or family member. It will try to connect to your webcam and enable video chat.
wget sudo sudo sudo
-q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main" apt-get update apt-get install google-talkplugin
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/compiz_0-9-123-1.png) Compiz (optional) has been updated, introducing a handy plugin, Workspace Naming, that, as its name clearly suggests, allows users to name workspaces with desired names, names that feature a high usability potential and numerous usecases, like for instance, naming a workspace text-only if in that workspace the user deals only with text files, and/or coding-only specific to a coding-oriented desktop. Its usage is as simple as navigating to CompizConfig Settings Manager>Window Management>check Workspace Naming and tweaking the provided functionalities (names, Display Time, Font Size, etc). Copy and paste the following command into Terminal:
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins
Download Manager Windows equivalent : Free download manager Ubuntu equivalent : Multiget
MultiGet is an easy-to-use and open source file download manager for Windows. It supports HTTP/FTP protocols which covers the requirements of most users. The download accelerator supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. It supports resuming downloads if the Web server supports it, and if you like, you can reconfigure the thread number without stopping the current task. Its also support SOCKS 4, 4a, 5 proxy, ftp proxy, http proxy. MultiGet also supports switching language dynamically; you can choose English, Chinese, and German. Plus this it will automatically choose a proper language for you.
sudo apt-get install multiget
Access it through Applications Internet MultiGet .

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Graphical Email client Thunderbird Windows: Outlook, Outlook Express Despite perceptions to the contrary, the desktop-based e-mail client is not dead. Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 is a serious reaction to the prevalence of Web mail, so whether youre looking for a strong desktop client, an Outlook replacement, or a powerful tool for managing archives and Web mail offline, Thunderbird can scale to your needs.
Outlook users will notice the speed and responsiveness of the program, which loads quickly, even when weighed down by multiple folders and RSS feeds, and the basic feature set remains intact: good junk mail filters, HTML support, multiple identities, and robust Web mail, POP, IMAP, and Microsoft Exchange server support. Security features include S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, and a built-in phishing detector. Add-ons, based on the same code as Firefoxs add-on network, can enhance your security even further. Thunderbird is now installed by default and replaces evolution as the default mail client in 12.04.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install thunderbird xul-ext-calendar-timezones xul-ext-lightning
Access it through Applications Internet Mozilla Thunderbird Mail/News . To import Outlook PST files in Thunderbird:
sudo apt-get install readpst readpst -r nameofyourPSTfilehere
This changes the output format to Recursive. This will create folders as named in the PST file, and will put all emails in a file called mbox inside each folder. These files are then compatible with all mbox-compatible email clients. Then just import the mbox file into Thunderbird and you should be all good. Instant Messanging protocal clients Windows equivalent : MSN messenger, Trillian, Yahoo messenger, QQ, AIM, Gtalk, ICQ,IRC Ubuntu equivalent : Empathy, Pidgin, Emesene
Empathy is an instant messaging client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and interapplication communication over various IM protocols. Empathy is installed by default on Ubuntu, however you may want to make sure you have the latest updated version.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:telepathy/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install empathy
Additional plugins for Empathy remote desktop (RDC) feature:
sudo apt-get install vino vinagre
Then install Empathy plugins in terminal:
sudo apt-get install empathy telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-gabble tel
Access it through Applications Internet Empathy IM Client . Pidgin
Pidgin is an easy to use and a free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once. Supported chat networks: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Zephyr
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pidgin-developers/ppa && sudo apt-get update
Then install it :
sudo apt-get install pidgin pidgin-data pidgin-lastfm pidgin-guifications msn
Access it through Applications Internet Pidgin Internet Messenger . Gmail Notification Checkgmail If you would like to get notified when you have a new mail in your google mail account, checkgmail is for you.
To install Checkgmail type the following command in the Terminal Window.
sudo apt-get install checkgmail
Now you can launch it from Application Internet CheckGmail
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
Special Note #1: Bitcoin will connect to other nodes, usually on TCP port 8333. You will need to allow outgoing TCP connections to port 8333 if you want to allow your Bitcoin client to connect to many nodes. Testnet uses TCP port 18333 instead of 8333.
sudo ufw allow 8333 sudo ufw disable sudo ufw enable
Special Note #2: Bitcoin-qt is a full-node and needs a full-copy of the blockchain to run and it can take days to update the blockchain. This inactivity will happen, and Ive no idea why but it seems to get through it if left long enough eventually. A lightweight client like Multibit (https://multibit.org/help.html) java-based will be up-to-date in a few seconds so Multibit Bitcoin Client may be a better option for some users if they are in a big hurry. And there is Armory (https://bitcoinarmory.com/get-armory/) you can try as well. Here is the one I use:

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Electrum (the blockchain is the cloud) (http://electrum.org/download.html) is an easy to use Bitcoin client. It protects you from losing coins in a backup mistake or computer failure, because your wallet can be recovered from a secret phrase that you can write on paper or learn by heart. There is no waiting time when you start the client, because it does not download the Bitcoin blockchain. Instant on: Your client does not download the blockchain, it uses a remote server. Forgiving: Your wallet can be recovered from a secret seed. Safe: Private keys are never sent to the server. Information sent by the server is verified using SPV No downtimes: Several public servers are available, you can switch instantly. Ubiquitous: You can use the same wallet on different computers, it will auto-synchronize. Open: You can export your private keys into other Bitcoin clients. Tested and audited: Electrum is open source and was first released in November 2011. Download Electrum: http://electrum.org/download.html (http://electrum.org/download.html) Make sure you open GUFW and reset your firewall settings before running Electrum. When you first run Electrum you will be prompted with your seed information. Write the seed words down by hand and put it somewhere safe in case data recovery becomes necessary someday.
https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/bitcoin-mining-in-ubuntu-with-bfgminer/ (https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/bitcoin-mining-in-ubuntu-with-bfgminer/) https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/bitcoin-mining-with-ubuntu-12-04-lts-andcgminer/ (https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/bitcoin-mining-with-ubuntu-12-04lts-and-cgminer/) VOIP Windows equivalent : Skype Ubuntu equivalent : Skype, Jitsi, Brosix Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/skype-4-1-login-screen.png) And if you are running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.10 you will this:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
To install Skype, in terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install skype
Or if you want the very latest version use: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/ (http://www.skype.com /intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/) Hardware acceleration and WebGL also feature in this release but are not turned on by default. Head into opera:config (https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/to-do-list-after-installing-ubuntu-12-10aka-quantal-quetzal/config#Enable%20Hardware%20Acceleration) to enable it. Other new features include: Webcam support Support for the Do Not Track header CSS3 Animations and Transitions Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Cors) Support Improved language support Some webcams work perfect with Cheese and other webcam applications, but in Skype you may have a green screen, no picture at all or the picture is upside down! If you have webcam issues with skype, fix this by doing this:
echo -e '#!/bin/bash n LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.s sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/skype
If that doesnt fix it trying downgrading your Ubuntu OS from 64-bit to 32-bit during the installation and then reinstall it. Yes, that means reinstalling your entire system from the beginning.
Skype Wrapper is a small third-party tool, Skype-wrapper brings a bunch of Ubuntu-specific features to Skype, including Messaging Menu integration and native notifications for message alerts,
and Unity quicklists for quick access to call controls.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skype-wrapper/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install skype-wrapper

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Zoiper is a SIP and IAX multilingual cross-platform desktop softphone eases and enhances the calling experience of anybody taking advantage of VoIP at home or in the office. Novice and power users can make high-quality voice and video calls, send and receive faxes, chat and set online presence from their desktop softphone: http://www.zoiper.com/download_intermediate.php?os=Linux&ap=z2& location=zoiper2_linux_tar_gz (http://www.zoiper.com/download_intermediate.php?os=Linux& ap=z2&location=zoiper2_linux_tar_gz) Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is a VoIP, videoconferencing, and instant messaging application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It supports several popular instant messaging and telephony protocols. Download your Ubuntu debian (*.deb) installation packages at either: http://jitsi.org (http://jitsi.org) or http://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/debian/ (http://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/debian/) Brosix Enterprise Instant Messenger is a secured instant messenger that is designed to help business users find a secure way to connect to one another quickly. It uses encrypted communications in order to secure messages in a manner that is similar to secure email services. Video chat just like Skype, and even LogMeIn-like features. To download and install, copy and paste in Terminal:
curl -o brosix_free.deb http://download.brosix.com/download.aspx/Brosix_ubunt sudo dpkg -i brosix_free.deb
For more information about Brosix and support: http://www.brosix.com/ (http://www.brosix.com/)
sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
Write down your existing ISP nameserver IP addresses in case you want to change it back later on. And then modify those ISP nameserver entries as to the pubic DNS ScrubIt entries:
nameserver 67.138.54.100 nameserver 207.225.209.66
Click on Save, and reboot your system. The best way to update your DNS nameserver is to change your wifi router configuration. Just call tech support for your make and model router (the manufacturers tech support phone number) and ask them to walk you through the process to update your DNS nameserver configuration for your router box. It should normally be free of charge to call support for your make and model router box. Make sure you put a good password on your router box when you are done. And never let your kids have administrative accounts (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/users_in_ubuntu) on Ubuntu. Always create new users without superuser rights too. Only you, the superuser should be able to change any of the system network settings from within Ubuntu OS. Here is an alternative to set up the same kind of parental blocking service but with OpenDNS instead: https://www.opendns.com/parental-controls (https://www.opendns.com/parental-controls) GEdit Essentially is it like notepad in MS Windows but with many many more features.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-06-191214.png)
sudo apt-get install gedit gedit-plugins gedit-developer-plugins
Geany is a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla and including basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features. Among the supported programming languages are C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, LaTeX, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Pascal, Haskell, Erlang, Vala and many others.
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-04-12-165041.png)It was
developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.
sudo apt-get install geany geany-plugins
Windows: Notepad++ In 32-bit Ubuntu:
wget http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/8.5.0/Komodo-Edit-8.5.0 tar xzvf Komodo-Edit-8.5.0-13638-linux-x86.tar.gz cd Komodo-Edit-8.5.0-13638-linux-x86/ sudo ./install.sh
in 64-bit Ubuntu:
wget http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/8.5.0/Komodo-Edit-8.5.0 tar xzvf Komodo-Edit-8.5.0-13638-linux-x86_64.tar.gz cd Komodo-Edit-8.5.0-13638-linux-x86_64/ sudo ./install.sh
When prompted to specify the directory or folder to install into, type this command:
/opt/Komodo-Edit-8/
After installing, run this command in your terminal to complete the process.
export PATH="/opt/Komodo-Edit-8/bin:$PATH"
LibreOffice (Recommended) Windows equivalent : Microsoft Office Suite Ubuntu equivalent : LibreOffice Suite
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-12-221700.png) LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms. Its developers goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements. The name is a hybrid word with the first part Libre, which means free (as in freedom) in French and Spanish, and the English word Office.
LibreOffice comes preinstalled by default in Ubuntu usually, but you still want to double-check at this point that you have everything else installed that you probably will need, and that you have the latest updated version from the developers. To install LibreOffice PPA:
sudo sudo sudo sudo
add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-1 apt-get update apt-get -y dist-upgrade apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-math lib

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) How to install Grammar checking Plug-in for LibreOffice Writer: http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/how-to-install-grammar-checker-in-libreofficein-ubuntu/ (http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/how-to-install-grammar-checkerin-libreoffice-in-ubuntu/) To enable PDF import capability:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-pdfimport
To enable Mozilla Office plugin:
sudo apt-get install mozilla-libreoffice
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center (http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensioncenter) Special Note: If you would like the MS Windows OS or Apple Mac OS version of LibreOffice Suite for another computer you have at work or school here is where you can find the link. And I definitely
recommend using the torrent because the direct link doesnt usually completely download for some unknown reason. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/ (https://www.libreoffice.org/download /?type=win-x86&lang=en-US&version=3.6.3) or you can download LibreOffice for Windows via Torrent here: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.0.0/win/x86 /LibreOffice_4.0.0_Win_x86.msi.torrent (http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice /stable/4.0.0/win/x86/LibreOffice_4.0.0_Win_x86.msi.torrent)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tombeckmann/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gwoffice
Scribus is an desktop open source page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript, primarily, though not exclusively for Linux.
sudo apt-get install scribus
AbiWord is a free and open source software word processor. It was originally started by SourceGear Corporation as the first part of a proposed AbiSuite. Development stopped when SourceGear changed their focus to Internet appliances. AbiWord was adopted by some open source developers and AbiWord continued to be developed. AbiWord supports both basic word processing features such as lists, indents and character formats, and more sophisticated features including tables, styles, page headers and footers, footnotes, templates, multiple views, page columns, spell checking, and grammar checking. Starting with version 2.8.0, AbiWord includes a collaboration plugin that allows integration with AbiCollab.net, a Web-based service that permits multiple users to work on the same document in real time, in full synchronization.
sudo apt-get install abiword
Graphical FTP clients Windows equivalent : CuteFTP, SmartFTP, CoreFTP
Ubuntu equivalent : FileZilla FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP/SFTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from SourceForge.net.
This is great FTP client, very complete, in my opinion, and the best one around. To install FileZilla in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install filezilla filezilla-common
Access it through Applications Internet FileZilla FTP Client. Development IDE Windows equivalent : Dreamweaver Ubuntu equivalent : Kompozer, Netbeans KompoZer is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on a rewritten version of the now-discontinued Nvu editor. KompoZer is maintained as a community-driven fork and is a project on Sourceforge.
KompoZers WYSIWYG editing capabilities are one of the main attractions of the software. In addition, KompoZer allows direct code editing as well as a split code-graphic view:
sudo apt-get install kompozer
Access it through Applications Internet Kompozer NetBeans The NetBeans platform allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules. Applications based on the NetBeans platform (including the NetBeans IDE) can be extended by third party developers.
sudo apt-get install netbeans
Image Editors Windows equivalent : Adobe Photoshop Ubuntu equivalent : GIMP Basic GIMP GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. It has layering abilities like Photoshop. In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
New additions in Gimp 2.8 are single window mode, on-canvas text editing, layers group, and to apply all changes to a layer grouping. You will need to install the PPA to upgrade to Gimp 2.8 below.
sudo sudo sudo sudo
apt-get --purge remove gimp* add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp apt-get update apt-get install gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extras
Access it through Applications Graphics GIMP Image Editor. Download additional Script-Fu filters and tweaks:
Instructions on how to install Scripts that work in Gimp 2.8: http://www.gimphelp.org/script28.shtml (http://www.gimphelp.org/script28.shtml)

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) GIMP Paint Studio GIMP Paint Studio (GPS) is a package with a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets for GIMP aimed at improving the capabilities in drawing and painting using GIMP. GPS provides a wide range of tools for graphic designers and digital artists: different shadowing pencil brushes (graphite, 2B, 6B, etc), pen brushes (BIC pen, sketching pen), oil brushes and other presets for airbrushing, using the ink tool, smudging, etc.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/screenshot-16.png) To add the PPA and install GIMP Paint Studio in Ubuntu (install GIMP first), use the following commands on the terminal (this PPA might not be available yet in 12.04):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shnatsel/gimp-paint-studio sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gimp-paint-studio
Gimp Painter adds some color blending and line smoothing features: It is not a separate package, but a whole patched GIMP.
/screenshot9.png) To install Gimp Painter from terminal:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mizuno-as/gimp-painter sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
To install additional helpful plugins for Gimp try:
http://registry.gimp.org/popular (http://registry.gimp.org/popular)
GMIC is an open and full-featured framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images. GMIC provides a serious tool for image processing along with flexibility for creative applications. It has a very lightweight core that is mature code and comes with a complete set of manipulation and filter commands which operate on a stack of images.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic
Vector Graphics Editor Windows equivalent : Adobe Illustrator Ubuntu equivalent : Inkscape Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard. An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortiums (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports
Creative Commons metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-inshape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
sudo apt-get install inkscape
Access it through Applications Graphics Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor. Photo Management Windows equivalent: Aftershot Pro, Lightroom, Bridge, Photoshop Organizer RAW file viewers/editors/plugins for SLR Digital Photography Not the most intuitive program to use at first, Raw Therapee is a fairly feature rich and comprehensive RAW editor thats compatible with Linux. At the time of writing, the team are working on a stable release of version 3.0, which is a major release for the project. Unidentified Flying RAW (or UFRaw for short) is a dedicated RAW image editor based on GTK+. It can be used as an application on its own or as a plugin for GIMP (simply open a RAW image in GIMP to be presented with the UFRaw editor window).
sudo apt-get install libraw-bin ufraw ufraw-batch and gimp-ufraw rawtherapee
For more raw file utilities visit: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-great-tools-editing-raw-photoslinux/ (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-great-tools-editing-raw-photos-linux/)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release-plus sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install darktable
sudo apt-get install shotwell
sudo apt-get install photofilmstrip

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) 3D Graphics Application Windows equivalent : 3D Studio MAX, Google Sketch Ubuntu equivalent : Blender Blender Blenders features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, video editing software, compositing, and the ability to create interactive 3D applications, video games, animated film, or visual effects.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install blender
Access it through Applications Graphics Blender (windowed). Microsoft Visio Windows equivalent : Microsoft Visio Ubuntu equivalent : Dia Dia Dia can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams and flowcharts. It has special objects to help draw entity-relationship models (tedia2sql can be used to create the SQL DDL), Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple electrical circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to draw the shape.
sudo apt-get install dia
Access it through Applications Graphics Dia Diagram Editor Google Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time may have resided at Idealab) in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. Picasa is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for my house, and pic for pictures (personalized art). For Linux, Google has bundled Wine with the Windows version to create an installation package rather than write a native Linux version, but this version is severely out of date (the latest Windows version, however, can be run with Wine; see the Linux section). http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/mint_import/maya/import/base/picasa (http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/mint_import/maya/import/base/picasa) You will need to either select the 32-bit or 64-bit version according to the version of Ubuntu you have installed on your computer. Screenlets is the name of both a set of independently-developed widget applications and the widget engine which runs them. The engine runs primarily on X11-based compositing window managers, most notably with Compiz on Linux. Like Google Gadgets for windows.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install screenlets
P2P Clients & Servers, File Sharing Windows equivalent : Limewire, utorrent, Azureus, Emule, PeerGuardian Ubuntu equivalent : Frostwire, Deluge, Azureus, Amule, Moblock/Mobloquer BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounted for roughly 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009. Frostwire Windows equivalent: Limewire FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client, first released in September, 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but developers added more features, such as BitTorrent support. In version Five, Gnutella support was dropped entirely, and now FrostWire only uses the BitTorrent network. Development of the program has been active since the program was first released in September 2004.
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-04-12-172826.png) Install Frostwire:
http://www.frostwire.com/download/?os=ubuntu& (http://www.frostwire.com/download /?os=ubuntu&) Bittorrent Add-ons for Ubuntu: Windows Equivalent: PeerGuardian (highly recommended for Bittorent users) Ubuntu equivalent : PGL and PGLGUI PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origins lie in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P. While you are installing PGL just accept the default settings for now. You can change them with PGLGUI after you are done installing everything. To install PGL and PGLGUI in terminal (select the default settings by using the TAB key and pressing enter there will be several prompts just accept default settings and afterwards you can configure the blocklists):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jre-phoenix/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pgld pglcmd pglgui
Make sure to enable your blocklists you want and update PGLGUI after you get it completely installed:
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-06-191501.png) The first thing most users will notice after installing PGL and have it running is that their Pidgin/Empathy/IMclientOfChoice/WebBrowser stops working. PGLGUI log will list the IPs and info about the IPs, so just whitelist them if need be with one mouse click.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/peerguardian-linux1.png) It is really a very strong utility and will block pretty much everything until you tell it to do otherwise. But you only need to run this when you are seeding or downloading torrent files. Deluge Client is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in its backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity.
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-04-12-173105.png) The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.
sudo apt-get install deluge-torrent
Access it through Applications Internet Deluge Torrent. Azureus Client: Uses Java to run, very complete but a bit heavy. And has a wide variety of add-ons to choose from too.
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-04-12-173325.png) Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a P2P file sharing client using the bittorrent protocol. Search and download torrent files. Play, convert and transcode videos and music for playing on many devices such as PSP, TiVo, XBox, PS3, iTunes (iPhone, iPod, Apple TV).
sudo apt-get install azureus
Access it through Applications Internet Azureus.
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/utorrent.png) Torrent Server is a very tiny BitTorrent server, super fast and ultra light. Torrents built for speed. That means ultra-efficient downloads of mega-sized files. Go to Torrent official site (http://www.utorrent.com/) and download the Ubuntu installation package and use the following instructions to install Torrent at: http://ubuntuguide.net/install-lightweight-fast-%C2%B5torrent-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts/ (http://ubuntuguide.net/install-lightweight-fast-%C2%B5torrent-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts/) Amule aMule is an eMule-like client for the eD2k and Kademlia networks, supporting multiple platforms. Add the launchpad repository :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:happyaron/amule-dlp && sudo apt-get update
Then install it with the following command :
sudo apt-get install amule-dlp amule-dlp-gnome-support amule-dlp-utils-gui am
Access it through Applications Internet aMule.
Music / MP3 / OGG Players Windows equivalent : iTunes, Winamp Ubuntu equivalent : Amarok, Nuvola Player, Spotify Amarok 2.5 Earth Moving was released on December 2011. New features: GPodder.net podcast synchronization. Re-written USB Mass Storage support. The Windows version of Amarok is now officially declared stable. Many bugfixes to the iPod plugin, thanks to Matj Laitl. An integrated Amazon MP3 store. This major feature is the work of our web-entrepreneurs Sven and Justus.
sudo apt-get install amarok
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/screenshot2.png) Great Little Radio Player is a robust internet radio station streamer for various Linux distributions. It connects to web sites offering radio streaming and lets you play radio stations directly from that locations. With Great Little Radio Player, you will have collection of more then 500 radio stations worldwide. Best part, its free of charge. You can download it here: sites.google.com/site/glrpgreatlittleradioplayer (https://sites.google.com /site/glrpgreatlittleradioplayer/)

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Spotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
then
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" >> /etc/
then
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import files in various formats and convert audio files into many different audio file formats too. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. This is the first and last GUI audio editor you will ever need on Ubuntu.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audacity-team/daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install audacity lame libmp3lame0
For more specific information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/What%20is%20JACK (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/What%20is%20JACK)
sudo apt-get install jack jackd jackeq
Mixxx is a DJ tool that allows for the playback and mixing of digital music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Wave). Mixxx will run on the Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screenshot-at-2011-10-27-114429.png) Mixxx has the ability to provide comprehensive support for any MIDI controller due to its scripting engine, and it ships with mappings for a number of popular controllers, a complete list of which can be found on the Hardware Compatibility (http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/faq) page.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mixxx/mixxx sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mixxx libportaudio2
Airtime 2.1 allows connecting remotely via tools such as Mixxx or Virtual DJ and the application will rebroadcast the stream either at a time you set or in the middle of the broadcast, using a nice transition. Download Airtime (http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/download/) (officially supports Ubuntu and Debian, but works on other Linux distributions too)
sudo apt-get install ardour
sudo apt-get install traverso
sudo apt-get install lmms
sudo apt-get install jokosher

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) The engine is an infrastructure that hosts the emulator code that couples together the different audio operators required to generate the audio. The engine and GUI are started together with the start Bristol script which sets up the required environment for the two to connect together. It is not generally envisaged that bristol and brighton be started outside of the script however there are options to the script to only start one or the other. Bristol also has a command line interface that can be used rather than the GUI. Audio drivers are PCM/PCM plug or Jack. Midi drivers are either OSS/ALSA rawmidi interface, or ALSA SEQ. Multple GUIs can connect to the single audio engine, which then operates multitimbrally. Currently the following synthesizers are emulated: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/bristol.1.html (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/bristol.1.html)
In Terminal copy and paste to install the GUI:
sudo apt-get install bristol monobristol
Special Note: You may need to type monobristol in terminal to start the GUI or you may need to create a launcher for it manually. Sometimes it is better to run it entirely from the command line too. Amarok Amaroks tagline is Rediscover Your Music, and its development is based around this ideology. Amaroks core features such as the unique context browser, integrated Wikipedia lookup and lyrics download help users to find new music, and to learn more about the music they have. Windows equivalent : iTunes
sudo apt-get install amarok amarok-common
Access it through Applications Sound & Video Amarok. gtkpod gtkpod is a graphical user interface for the Apple iPod for Unix-like systems, written using the GTK+
toolkit. Windows equivalent : iTunes
sudo apt-get install gtkpod
Programs for CD/DVD burning with GUI Windows equivalent : Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator Ubuntu equivalent : K3b, Brasero
sudo apt-get install k3b k3b-data libk3b6
Access it through Applications Sound & Video K3B. Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.
sudo apt-get install brasero
Access it through Applications Sound & Video Brasero Disc Burning . Gnac is an easy-to-use audio conversion program for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be powerful but simple. It provides easy audio file conversion between all GStreamer supported audio formats. This and WinFF I have found to be very handy.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnac-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnac
Kdenlive, Kino, Openshot, Pitivi Video Editors Kdenlive, Kino, Openshot, Avidemux, and Pitivi are intuitive and powerful multi-track video editors, including some of the most recent video technologies. Winff is a video/audio converter. With WinFF you can convert a video from youtube into an MP3 audio file, for example. Avidemux is good general purpose video editor as well.
sudo apt-get install kdenlive kino pitivi sudo apt-get install avidemux avidemux-common avidemux-plugins-common avidemu

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) WinFF is a GUI for the FFmpeg command line video converter. It will convert any video file that is supported by FFmpeg. WinFF processes multiple files in multiple formats at once. You can, for example, convert mpeg, flv, and mov files into avi videos, all at once. To install the most recent updated version:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paul-climbing/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install winff libavcodec-extra-53
OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux licensed under the GPL version 3.0.OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats. OpenShot provides extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working with high-definition video including HDV and AVCHD. Copy and paste in Terminal:
sudo sudo sudo sudo
add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa apt-get update apt-get install openshot frei0r-plugins apt-get install ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev libavcodec-extra-53 libavformat-
Download Flowblade (http://code.google.com/p/flowblade/downloads/list) (.deb and source files available) HandBrake is an open-source program designed to convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into an MPEG-4 video file in MPEG-4 Part 14 (.mp4) or Matroska (.mkv) containers. The program is used to convert DVDs into other forms so they can be viewed on iPods, iPhones and with the Apple QuickTime Player and most media players.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/screenshot-handbrake.png) Originally developed for BeOS, HandBrake is now available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format. You are able to have a mic enabled and background soundtrack too.
Optionally you can record sound from any sound input device that is supported and visible by PulseAudio.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/unstable-series sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kazam
VideoLAN Movie Creator (VLMC) is a cross-platform, non-linear, video editing software application based on the VLC Media Player.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/vlmc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlmc frei0r-plugins
AcidRip is an automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder (ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder) written in Perl, using Gtk2::Perl for a graphical interface. Makes encoding a DVD just one button click!
sudo apt-get install acidrip
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl i.e. fron end for transcode and ffmpeg. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
sudo apt-get install dvdrip
K9copy is a KDE DVD Backup tool. It allows the copy of a DVD9 to a DVD5. It is also known as a Linux DVD shrink. It supports the following features: The video stream is compressed to make the video fiton a 4.7GB recordable DVD. DVD Burning. Creation of ISO images. Choosing which audio and subtitle tracks are copied. Title preview (video only). The ability to preserve the original menus.
sudo apt-get install k9copy
(https://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/screenshot-from-2012-06-09-170451.png) Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look thats optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulus entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service. The new version includes both bug fixes and also support for the new Hulu Plus subscription service. You can download the deb installation package for your 32-bit or 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 here: We start by downloading the Ubuntu deb package: 64-bit Systems wget http://download.hulu.com/huludesktop_amd64.deb
32-bit Systems wget http://download.hulu.com/huludesktop_i386.deb
Now, we install the deb package:
sudo dpkg -i huludesktop_*.deb
Special Note: There is a problem when you run the default HuluDesktop configuration in FullScreen
mode on Linux. To fix this you must manually edit your .huluconfig file to match your current monitor display resolution. Copy and paste in Terminal:
gedit .huludesktop
And change this:
[display] fullscreen = FALSE width = 1024 height = 576 pos_x = 164 pos v = 95
and change FALSE to TRUE for fullscreen and update width and height to your actual display resolution sizes. You can find your current monitor display resolution sizes in your System Settings under Hardware.
[display] fullscreen = TRUE width = 1280 height = 720 pos_x = 164 pos v = 95
And if someone would be nice enough to drop a message to the HuluDesktop support people to let them know they need to find a solution to this issue eventually, and you can post that over this way. Maybe a nice GUI monitor resolution configuration option within Huludesktop itself or even an auto detect function?: http://www.hulu.com/discussions (http://www.hulu.com/discussions)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/blug sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tv-maxe
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/freetux_tv.jpg) FreetuxTV is a Web TV player for Linux that lets you watch and record free Web TV Channels and listen to Radio. Unlike Sopcast this works with direct asf/wmv connections/downloads for streaming media. And the programming lists appear to not be quite as updated as Sopcast at the moment. The application that runs on VLC as backend comes with several pre-added channels for many languages. You will need to open up the required ports on your firewall if it is enabled.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freetuxtv/freetuxtv sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freetuxtv
For support contact: https://code.google.com/p/freetuxtv/ (https://code.google.com /p/freetuxtv/)
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/netflixonlinux.png) Netflix (https://signup.netflix.com/) is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999 and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25, 2007, Netflix announced the billionth DVD delivery. In April 2011, Netflix announced 23.6 million subscribers in the United States and over 26 million worldwide. By 2011, the total digital revenue for Netflix reached $1.5 billion. The new Netflix streaming media player takes advantage of Play Ready DRM, which is built into Silverlight codec, for the playback of protected content. According to Netflix, this had not been possible with previous technologies. The company also said that it has expanded the number of movies and television programs available through the Watch Instantly service. The paid service is roughly around $7.99 per month. Currently, you are allowed a 30-day trial to test the services. If you have questions or need support please visit: https://launchpad.net/netflix-desktop (https://launchpad.net/netflix-desktop) Download and install Netflix:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop redbox-desktop lovefilm-desktop
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc
Infra-red remote control support lirc can be reconfigured with this command: sudo dpkg-recondigure lirc For more information: http://lirc.org/ (http://lirc.org/) Calibre is a free and open source e-book computer software that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats. It also supports e-book syncing with a variety of popular e-book readers. calibre is cross-platform (programmed in Python and C) and is intended for the three main operating systems, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Windows: Kindle for PC software
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screenshot-at-2011-10-26-132713.png) Calibre was originally called libprs500, but was renamed calibre (lower case C) in mid-2008. calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, where a single database entry corresponds with the same book in a variety of formats. calibre supports the following formats for cataloging: AZW, AZW1, CBR, CBZ, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, IMP, LIT, LRF, LRX, MOBI, ODT, OEBZIP, OPF, PDB, PDF, PML, PMLZ, PRC, RAR, RB, RTF, SNB, TPZ, TXT and ZIP.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screenshot-at-2011-10-26-1326401.png)
sudo apt-get install calibre
Also make sure to install better smaller fonts:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/957788-installing-calibri-font/ (http://www.neowin.net /forum/topic/957788-installing-calibri-font/)
Google Earth allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. With Google Earths rich, geographical content, you are able to experience a more realistic view of the world. For 32-bit Ubuntu:
sudo wget sudo sudo
apt-get install lsb-core -c http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_curr dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb apt-get -f install
For 64-bit Ubuntu:
sudo sudo wget sudo sudo
apt-get install ia32-libs apt-get install lsb-core -c http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_curr dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb apt-get -f install
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2013-03-28-1143371.png) VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software package from VMware, Inc. (a company which was formerly a division of and whose majority shareholder remains EMC Corporation). VMware Player can run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual machines (which require a operating system to be installed to be functional). It uses the same virtualization core as VMware Workstation, a similar program with more features, and not free of charge. VMware Player is available for personal non-commercial use, or for distribution or other use by written agreement. No support is provided by VMWare, but there is an active community website for discussing and resolving issues. (http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa) How to install VMware Player: https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/how-to-install-vmware-player-in-ubuntu-12-04/ (https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/how-to-install-vmware-player-in-ubuntu-12-04/)
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-08-1949001.png)Oracle
VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and innotek VirtualBox) is an x86 virtualization software package, created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased in 2008 by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. Oracle VM VirtualBox is installed on Ubuntu as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment. For example, here we have installed Andriod 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS virtually inside of Virtualbox for App development purposes.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-08-194733.png) To install Oracle VM VirtualBox copy and paste into Terminal:
sudo wget sudo sudo
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -Oapt-get update apt-get install virtualbox-4.2
* Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich OS installation *.ISO as shown in above Virtualbox. (http://www.endoflinemag.com/how-to-guides/item/1122-run-android-40x-ice-cream-sandwichwithin-ubuntu-or-windows) Special Note: And if you are wondering if I could get Netflix app to actually install in the virtual andriod OS the answer is no. The DRM included with the android Netflix app will not work on android OS unless it is installed with matching hardware specifications (or?) installed physically on a real android device. Maybe you can figure out how to emulate those hardware specifications in virtualbox configuration settings? I dont know, but that is a hint if you are bored with nothing better to do and want to figure that out for yourselves.

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) RemoteBox is a graphical tool which lets you administer guests or virtual machines running under VirtualBox on a remote server or even your local machine if desired. VirtualBox, its virtualization software primarily intended for desktop machines, similar to VMWare Workstation, Parallels or Virtual PC. You may, for example, have a root server on the Internet, a server at home, or a server at work running VirtualBox but want to have the convenience of managing the guests easily from your local machine. The virtual machines run in headless mode, which means you dont need an active graphical display on the server but you can still connect and view the displays of the guests. The goal of RemoteBox is to provide a GUI that should be familiar to VirtualBox users while allowing them to administer a remote installation of VirtualBox. It does this via the VirtualBox API and SOAP interface, which are exposed when running the VirtualBox Web service. You can also use RemoteBox simply as an alternative interface for managing VirtualBox on your local machine. You can also interact with the displays of the guests. This allows you to treat VirtualBox much more like an installation of Xen, KVM or VMware ESX.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/virtual sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install remotebox
Updated: June 10th 2012 (patch for 64-bit Ubuntu systems) Citrix Systems Reciever ICAClient (w/Firefox Plug-in): Citrix Receiver is a lightweight software client that allows access to virtual desktops and apps including Windows, Web or SaaS apps on any PC, Mac, netbook, tablet or smartphone. Works for both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Ubuntu. You need to download two deb packages to have it working correctly. You need the installation package for either 32-bit or 64-bit, and the supporting usb deb package, and then you will need to also install the USB support deb package as well. You will find both on the Linux download page on the following link: http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_2309126.asp (http://www.citrix.com/lang/English /lp/lp_2309126.asp) And then copy the certificates to the proper directory:
sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/c
Tutorial on how to install Citrix Receiver in Ubuntu: Special Note: There is a error in the deb installation package that you download from Citrix. If you are running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 and trying to install Citrix the installation will FAIL. Here is how to resolve this problem with the installation package for 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 1. Install the .deb (http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_2309126.asp) and let it fail 2. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/icaclient.postinst
sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/info/icaclient.postinst
3. Replace the line that says
echo $Arch|grep "i[0-9]86" >/dev/null
with
echo $Arch|grep -E "i[0-9]86|x86_64" >/dev/null
4. Run dpkg configure icaclient
sudo dpkg --configure icaclient
Restart Firefox so the plugin is installed correctly. I really hope Citrix fixes this problem with their 64-bit installation deb package for Ubuntu 12.04 soon. And the other thing that is missing from the installation package is the certificates. Copy the certificates to the proper directory so Citrix can connect properly with your Citrix host:
sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/c
Windows: LogMeIn, GoToMeeting, MS RDC http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx (http://www.teamviewer.com /en/download/linux.aspx)

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Splashtop Remote allows a user to remotely connect to a main computer from another computer or mobile device to access content or run applications. Splashtop Remote Desktop is based on technology that encodes the screen pixels of a main computer, transmits them via the Internet, Wi-Fi, or other network protocol to a client device, where it decodes the transmitted data and displays it on the screen of a client device. This affords users an experience similar to sitting in front of the remote computer and controlling it. The Remote Desktop iOS client provides two connection modes. One is sharp mode for better resolution. The other one is smooth mode for better frame rate/latency. A higher fps (frames per second) rate leads to a smoother video watching experience. For latency, a lower value is better because this is the lag between the time an image on the source device shows up on the client device. Splashtop has undertaken technical cooperation with Freescale, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and other chip manufacturers to optimize its software to use graphics processing units (GPUs) for encoding and client specific processors for decoding. These techniques enable the software to stream video at up to 30 frames per second when running in Smooth mode, and lead to low latency performance (quick response), which is at the same level as playing video on a local machine directly. http://www.splashtop.com/streamer/linux#download (http://www.splashtop.com/streamer /linux#download) If you are using GUFW Firewall you will need to enable the following ports for Splashtop services:
sudo ufw allow 6783 sudo ufw allow 6784 sudo ufw allow 6785
DraftSight Windows: AutoCAD
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/solidworks-draftsight-2d.jpg) Free CAD software* available for Windows, Mac and Linux. A new CAD product that provides professional CAD users, students and educators with a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. Prerequisite installation packages:
sudo apt-get install libxcb-render-util0 sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra
(Download Draftsight) http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/ (http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/) If you need to install this on a 64-bit Ubuntu system here are instructions: http://www.ggsalas.com.ar/instalar-draftsight-en-ubuntu-11-04-x64/ (http://www.ggsalas.com.ar /instalar-draftsight-en-ubuntu-11-04-x64/) Adobe AIR (no longer officially supported for Linux OS) internally uses Adobe Flash Player as the runtime environment, and ActionScript 3 as the sole programming language. Flash applications must specifically be built for the Adobe AIR runtime in order to utilize additional features provided, such as file system integration, native client extensions, native window/screen integration, taskbar/dock integration, and hardware integration with connected Accelerometer and GPS devices. AIR enables applications to work with data in multiple different ways, including local files, local SQLite databases for which AIR has inbuilt support, a database server via web services, or the encrypted local store included with AIR.
Special Note: Beginning June 14 2011, Adobe AIR is no longer supported for desktop Linux distributions. Users can install and run AIR 2.6 and earlier applications but cant install or update to AIR 2.7. The last version to support desktop Linux distributions is AIR 2.6. AIR 2.6 is available from the AIR Archive. If you are running a 32-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-ke sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnom
If you are running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnomesudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgn
Download and isntall Adobe Air:
wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.b sudo chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Post-installation clean up:
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0 sudo rm /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0
If you are having trouble installing Adobe Air on Ubuntu 64-bit you can also try these alternative instructions: http://ubuntuguide.net/install-adobe-air64-bit-ubuntu-12-04-precise/ (http://ubuntuguide.net
/install-adobe-air64-bit-ubuntu-12-04-precise/) Create your own custom distribution based on your installed Ubuntu OS Windows Equivalent: Norton Ghost (well kind-of) Ubuntu Equivalent: Remastersys, Clonezilla
So far it supports Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, and 10.04.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:f-muriana/ubuntu-builder sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-builder
For other releases, download and install the .deb package from this page (http://code.google.com
/p/ubuntu-builder/downloads/list).

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore is not only the best solution for hardware failure, it is also the ultimate antivirus: Even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes. http://redobackup.org/ (http://redobackup.org/) Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan. Clonezilla SE provides multicast support similar to Norton Ghost Corporate Edition. http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php (http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php) Hard Disk Partitions Manager Windows equivalent : Norton Partition Magic Ubuntu equivalent : GParted GParted is a GTK+ front-end to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application.
sudo apt-get install gparted

http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536 (http://igg.me/p/618326/x/5737536) Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform
developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute games and related media online, from small independent developers to larger software houses; in October 2012, Valve expanded the service to include non-gaming software. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic management of software across multiple computers, community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. The software provides a freely available application programming interface, Steamworks, that developers can take advantage of to integrate many of Steams functions within their software products, including copy protection, networking and matchmaking, in-game achievements and micro-transactions, and support for user-created content through Steam Workshop. Though initially developed for use on Microsoft Windows, the client has expanded to include a Mac OS X version and a pending port to Linux, and clients with limited functionality on the PlayStation 3 console and for both iOS and Android mobile devices. http://store.steampowered.com/about/ (http://store.steampowered.com/about/) You can then click on the download tab and use Software Center to automatically install the *.deb package or you can use Gdebi to install it from your download folder.
wget -c http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb sudo apt-get -f install
PlayOnLinux is Linux software which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and applications designed to run with Microsoft Windows OS. PlayOnLinux brings a cost-free, accessible and efficient solution to running Windows software in Ubuntu Linux. It is recommend that new users check with the Wine App Database (http://appdb.winehq.org/index.php) first to see if whatever Windows application or Windows program has been tested to work and perform well with Wine on Linux before attempting to use Wine to run whatever Windows software you are interested in running.
(http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-from-2012-10-07-201038.png) It is always recommended that you try to locate a native Linux application in the Ubuntu Software Center that is the equivalent to whatever Windows App or Windows program you need to run. And only use PlayOnLinux if no Linux equivalent exists already in the Ubuntu software repositories for free. That is always the best way to go. If you are looking for an Ubuntu app to replace a old Windows app you still need, post your question in the comment box below and I will try to find out what might work in your situation. To install Wine in Ubuntu copy and paste into Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine1.5
To install PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu copy and paste into Terminal:
sudo sudo sudo sudo
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_precise.list -O /etc/apt/sou apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E0F72778C467618 apt-get update apt-get install playonlinux
sudo wget sudo sudo
apt-add-repository 'deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main' -q http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot/multisystem.asc -O- | sudo aptapt-get update apt-get install multisystem
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didnt know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and more. I highly recommend installing this on your system at some point, and making sure to have it automatically run at system login as a reminder.Windows equivalent : CCleaner
sudo apt-get install bleachbit sudo bleachbit
Bleachbit Tutorial:
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To install Classic Ubuntu Fallback Desktop Environment:

sudo sudo sudo sudo

apt-get apt-get apt-get apt-get

install install install install

gnome-shell gnome-session-fallback indicator-applet-appmenu gnome-tweak-tool

sudo sudo sudo sudo

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sudo curl echo sudo sudo

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo reboot

sudo ./ubuntu-12.04-postinstall.py -c mycfg32.cfg

For 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

sudo ./ubuntu-12.04-postinstall.py -c mycfg64.cfg

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no further updates are found do not proceed until done here):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer gsfonts-x11

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sudo apt-get install pastebinit dmesg | pastebinit

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/nvidia sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo sudo

wget sudo sudo sudo

http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/fixwatermark-sh.doc cp fixwatermark-sh.doc fixwatermark.sh chmod a+x fixwatermark.sh ./fixwatermark.sh

sudo gedit /etc/ati/signature

sudo curl echo sudo sudo

sudo apt-get install gufw gufw

sudo ufw status verbose

To add basic firewall rules:

Re-check your changes:

sudo ufw status verbose

Re-check enable (required):

sudo ufw enable

sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkit

To run chkrootkit open a terminal window and enter :

sudo rkhunter --update sudo rkhunter --propupd sudo rkhunter --check

sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager-common activity-log-manager activit

If you are using Fallback DE, it is located in System Settings.

sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

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sudo apt-get install clamav clamtk

sudo wget sudo sudo sudo

on the Update button.

sudo gedit /opt/Bitdefender-scanner/etc/bdscan.conf

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall cdbs devscripts dh-make fak

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Open your Terminal, copy and paste:

sudo apt-get install smplayer

sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg gxine mencoder mpeg2dec vorbis-tools id3

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer

sudo apt-get install regionset sudo regionset

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sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre icedtea-7-plugin

And then run: