Not having my back/forward keys working in anything in Ubuntu was driving me nuts – in Windows I was absolutely dependent on being able to lazily click the side buttons (even though I use mouse gestures). The first thing I stumbled across seemed simple enough.
hyperq just replaced his InputDevice section with the code below, [...]
Occasionally it’s fun to waste some time shooting your friends and unfortunately Ubuntu just isn’t up to speed when it comes to gaming – so I dual boot into a stripped Vista installation. I’d like to make switching back and forth as quick as possible.
First thing I did was go and get Bootchart, “a tool [...]
x64 instructions:
sudo apt-get install xchat
wget http://mircryption.sourceforge.net/Downloads/mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
wget http://voobar.follvalsch.de/files/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2
unzip mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
tar -xvf mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2 -C /src
cd /src/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha
mv Makefile ../ && mv dh1080 ../ && mv mircryption.cpp ../
cd ..
Ran into this error on install and realized I hadn’t installed a compiler since reinstallation. There actually is no readme.txt and no .so file was created.
Trying to install mircryption.so into ~/.xchat2 [...]
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 [...]
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.