The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) - Page 4

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Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Mon, 2009-11-02 17:47. ::

10 Opera

Open a browser and go to http://www.opera.com/browser/download/; select Ubuntu as the distribution and then Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and click on the Download Opera button:

A download dialogue should come up. Select Open with GDebi Package Installer (default):

A Package Installer window comes up. Click on the Install Package button to install Opera:

Type in your password:

Opera is now being installed. Afterwards, you can close the Package Installer window:

 

11 Google Picasa

Go to http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30 and select the right .deb package for your architecture (i386 or amd64):

A download dialogue will come up. Click on Save File to download the package to your hard drive:

After the download has finished, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and go to the directory where the package has been saved (the default location is the Downloads folder in your home directory, i.e. ~/Downloads):

cd ~/Downloads

The package can then be installed as follows:

sudo gdebi picasa_3.0-current_*

Afterwards, you can delete the .deb package:

rm -f picasa_3.0-current_*

 

12 Inventory (III)

We have now all wanted applications installed:

Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] F-Spot
[x] Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[x] FileZilla
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[x] aMule
[x] Transmission BitTorrent Client
[x] Azureus/Vuze
[x] Empathy IM Client
[x] Skype
[x] Google Earth
[x] Xchat IRC

Office:
[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[x] Adobe Reader
[x] GnuCash
[x] Scribus

Sound & Video:
[x] Amarok
[x] Audacity
[x] Banshee
[x] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[x] gtkPod
[x] XMMS
[x] dvd::rip
[x] Kino
[x] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[x] VLC Media Player
[x] Helix Player
[x] Totem
[x] Xine
[x] Brasero
[x] K3B
[x] Multimedia-Codecs

Programming:
[x] KompoZer
[x] Bluefish
[x] Quanta Plus

Other:
[x] VirtualBox
[x] TrueType fonts
[x] Java
[x] Read/Write support for NTFS partitions

 

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Submitted by tranquilpenguin (not registered) on Tue, 2009-12-08 19:20.

The only problem I have is I cannot watch ANY .wmv files in Firefox. It asks me to download the video. If I download, I can watch fine.

 I can stream .avi & .mpg no problems.

 What do I need to do for .wmv streaming???

 

Thanks.

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Wed, 2009-11-25 22:26.

As a relative newbie I thought the article was very well written and presented - very useful.

Thank you!

Submitted by RapMan (not registered) on Tue, 2009-11-10 07:09.

Nice, but it is not necessary to use terminal anymore. Just download Ubuntu Tweak, select the repositories you need and install the software you need. Works fine for me and I have the same result even faster.

Submitted by Gérald (not registered) on Wed, 2009-11-04 10:02.

Opera has a repository and a key to be used in Ubuntu, offering to install it via Synaptic or Software Center.

Submitted by ensens (registered user) on Tue, 2009-11-03 14:32.

Just curious, Why install the version of Opera for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope when you could have selected to install Opera for this version of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala?

Submitted by oesgur (not registered) on Thu, 2009-11-12 07:16.
i was not sure too. and i selected 9.10 karmic koala. it worked fine for me
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