Installing/Upgrade Gnome 3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04

First open ur terminal

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing
3. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/staging
4. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
5. sudo apt-get install gdm gnome-shell gnome-tweak-tool
6. Reboot and type gnome-shell --version and WHOOPSSS u have gnome 3.8 on ur ubuntu 12.04 ;)

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Install Choqok 1.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10/11.04/10.10/Linux Mint 13/12/11/10

   Choqok is a Free/OpenSource, fast, efficient and simple to use micro-blogging client. Choqok team released new version 1.3 with new fixes and features with complete redsigned interface, also with a toolbar, improve in search of post, improve timeline, upload images directly to twitter. 

Current features of Choqok:

Supporting Twitter.com micro-blogging service.
Supporting Identi.ca micro-blogging service. (Using its Twitter compatible API)
Supporting self hosted StatusNet websites. (Using their Twitter compatible API)
Supporting Open Collaboration Services API (Used by opendesktop.org)
Supporting Friends, @Reply, Favorite and Public time-lines.
Support for send and receive direct messages.
Official Repeat/ReTweet functions.
Supporting Multiple Accounts simultaneously.
Supporting search APIs for Twitter and StatusNet services.
Support for Twitter lists.
KWallet integration.
Ability to make a quick tweet/dent with global shortcuts. (Ctrl+Meta+T)
Ability to notify user about new statuses arriving.
Flickr, ImageShack, Twitpic, Twitgoo, Mobypicture and Posterous photo uploading
Support for shortening urls with more than 30 characters.+shorten on paste, With more than 10 shortening services
Post text translation using Google Translate service.
Posts (Statuses) list appearance configuration.
Filtering supported to hide unwanted posts.
Setting your last post as your current status message in IM clients (Kopete, Pidgin, Psi, Skype)
Preview Images from Twitpic, YFrog, img.ly, plixi, Twitgoo, TweetPhoto and etc. services.
Preview Videos from YouTube and Vimeo services.
Send Now Listening text. (Many of favorite players such as Amarok, Exaile, Banshee, Rhythmbox and VLC supported)
UnTiny short Urls.
Proxy support.




To install Choqok on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian:
Open terminal

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adilson/experimental
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install choqok 

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Installing Skype on Debian Wheezy

   For 32bit:

• wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
• dpkg -i skype-install.deb

Wait untill finish, and type sudo apt-get install -f

For 64bit:

• Enable MultiArch --> dpkg --add-architecture i386
• sudo apt-get update
• wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
• dpkg -i skype-install.deb

Wait untill finish, and type sudo apt-get install -f

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LS++ [ LS colors installation ]

Options:
Not known parameters will be passed through to ls, so to show hidden files, -a or -A might be added. See ls(1) for more information.

View:
--pf permissions, file 
--psf permissions, size, file 
--tpf time, permissions, file 
--tpsf time, permissions, size, file (default) 
--ptsf permissions, time, size, file

Installation:

• cpan Term::ExtendedColor
• git clone git://github.com/trapd00r/ls--.git
•  cd ls--
• perl Makefile.PL
•  make && su -c 'make install'
• cp ls++.conf $HOME/.ls++.conf


 

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Installing Virtualbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx using PPA

First step -> Add virtualbox repository 

• sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid non-free"

Second -> Download and Add Virtualbox gpg key

• wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 

Third -> Updating your Ubuntu and installing dkms and Virtualbox

• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dkms virtualbox-3.2

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Install Artwiz fonts in Ubuntu

• Downoads artwix fonts pack here

Untar with:

• tar xvfz artwiz-latin1-1.1.tgz
• sudo mv artwiz-latin1 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc

Then execute the following commands:

• sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
• sudo cp /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d
• sudo fc-cache -f -v
• sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
• sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

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Installing Naver Line on Linux

First you have to installing

1. Wine
2. Winetricks

For Debian base:

• sudo apt-get install wine winetricks
• winetricks vcrun2008

For Debian/Ubuntu old:

• sudo apt-get install wine
• wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
• sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin/
• sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks
• winetricks vcrun2008

For Arch base:

• sudo pacman -S wine winetricks
• winetricks vcrun2008

Download Naver Line for PC (Windows)

• wget http://dl.desktop.line.naver.jp/naver/LINE/win/LineInst.exe

And install Line from Wine

• wine LineInst.exe

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