Oct 182008
 

For web development with CVS version control system

sudo aptitude install kompare cervisia quanta

A good svn gui is kdesvn:

sudo aptitude install kdesvn

For svn support in Nautilus is provided by a script collection:

sudo aptitude install nautilus-script-collection-svn
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Oct 182008
 

Set up 3G UMTS connection using bluetooth

resources: http://ubuntu.sg/index.php/ubuntu-guides/network/47-nokia-n95-as-3g-modem
http://www.stefanux.de/wiki/doku.php/linux/bluetooth#mit-wvdial

hcitool scan

output:

00:4F:5D:5B:53:FB  p

Now let’s find out the channel for the modem connection using Bluetooth:

sdptool browse 00:4F:5D:5B:53:FB | grep -A 10 Dial-Up | grep Channel

output:

Channel: 2

Connect the phone to a serial port using rfcomm. Edit rfcomm.conf:

sudo gedit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

and enter:

rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:4F:5D:5B:53:FB;
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel2;
# Description of the connection
comment "Nokia N95";
}

Restart bluetooth to activate the rfcomm binding:

Oct 182008
 

vnstat

Install the command line program vnstat, a network traffic counter, on Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install vnstat

Set up vnstat for your (e.g. dial-up: ppp0) internet connection:

sudo vnstat -u -i ppp0

View traffic:

vnstat

Set up a PHP based vnstat frontend

http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/index.php?p=1

install:

cd ~/Downloads
git clone git://github.com/bjd/vnstat-php-frontend.git
sudo cp -R vnstat-php-frontend /var/www/vnstat

change the configuration file config.php

  • language: en
  • interfaces…
  • vnstat binary…

If something has changed, update like this (you have to do the setup again):

Oct 182008
 

in order to mount smb shares you have to install smbfs (e.g. providing the command smbmount)

sudo aptitude install smbfs

then you can mount the share external on the computer 192.168.100.110 like this:

smbmount //192.168.100.110/external ~/tmpmount/ -o user=philipp,pass=xxxx,rw
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Oct 182008
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

  • Display the configuration editor in the system menu by following these steps:
    Click on System → Preferences → Main Menu
    Enable: Applications → System Tools → Configuration Editor (gconf-editor)
  • Now open the Configuration Editor (gconf-editor) and do the following:
    • Navigate to / → apps → panel → applets → clock_screen0 → prefs
      and set the value of custom_format to %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S. (note: this is the php strftime() format.)
    • Under “format” in the same location change 24-hour to custom
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Oct 182008
 

To get back your familiar Ubuntu usplash image and screen, do

sudo update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so

and then recreate initial ramdisk (ATTENTION! This also recreates entries in the menu.lst!):

sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
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Oct 182008
 

Add the Medibuntu repository:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Update repos and get the Medibuntu keyring manager:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Get Adobe Reader:

sudo apt-get install acroread

If you like to you can also install the acrobat plugin for firefox, konqueror etc.:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins
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Oct 182008
 

Do this in case you installed Kubuntu before and want to have gnome available as well

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop

KDM or GDM as default display manager:

The default can always be changed later by modifying the /etc/X11/default-display-manager file. For KDM, the file should read /usr/bin/kdm; for GDM, the file should read /usr/sbin/gdm or /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kdm for KDE 4

install simple compiz configuration dialog

sudo aptitude install simple-ccsm

then you can configure compiz using:

simple-ccsm

install emerald window manager

sudo aptitude install emerald

Then register emerald under System → Preferences → Sessions → Startup with name: Emerald Fix and command: emerald -replace.