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Installing Dropbox in Ubuntu 8.10

26-Jan-09

Step by step:

cp /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list.bak
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Paste the following at the bottom of the file (for 8.04 change intrepid to hardy):
deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
killall nautilus

For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
* (cp /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list.bak ; cat sources.list.bak ; echo “deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main” ; echo “deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid [...]

Updating to Openoffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 x64

25-Jan-09

sudo wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
tar -xvzf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ../..
rm -R OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358

Hrm… this didn’t update my menus, I’ll have to revisit this later once I actually need a word processor and figure it out.

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 from scratch

25-Jan-09

Managed to completely screw something up that caused flash to stop working, my drives no longer want to mount, and probably one or two others things that I didn’t bother to find out first. On top of that ever since I switched USB ports on my mouse fiddling around a week or [...]

Google Gears in Firefox x64 for Wordpress 2.7

19-Jan-09

To resolve this error:
“Google Gears” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem
Stan Joel posted the lastest (5.18.0) on Issue 335

Download: http://jms.id.au/~shenki/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
In Firefox,  click File -> Open File, find gears-linux-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
Click “Install Now” when prompted
Restart Firefox

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