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Ubuntu Ubuntu they drink it in the congo | 2 Comments

Posted in Linux/Unix on 2nd August 2005, 12:33 pm by

XP Pro started giving me grief on my laptop with a blue screen every time I booted it up, which seemed to relate to the wireless card. So to fix the problem I installed Ubuntu Linux, problem solved!

Installation is text based, and I found that was the only thing that was a little flaky. The first time I installed, it ended in an error. Rather than trying to fix this error (relating to packages) I opted to restart the install from scratch. This time it worked flawlessly. I was able to configure my wireless set-up during install and there were no issues with the connection at all.

It’s the first time I’ve really used Gnome – I always opted for KDE in the past, but I like it a lot. Firefox is installed as standard so all I had to put on there was Thunderbird and I was away.

I found that Mplayer couldn’t play Mp3 streams, until I installed the Gstreamer0.8-plugins. (involved enabling the Universe repository and performing an “apt-get update” first.) I’m guessing the reason for that is to do with licensing issues?

RDP connections to my windows desktop work fine as expected, and connecting to any other Linux box is a snap.

I have to mention that I found out about Ubuntu through the LugRadio Podcast and I can see why they are always plugging Ubuntu, it’s top notch distro.

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  • http://www.iamthepenguin.com Mike

    I’ve just put Ubuntu on my laptop too. Like you, I was quite surprised at how easily everything was setup. Especially as I usually run Slackware.

  • joe

    "Ubuntu Ubuntu they drink it in the congo" when I started singing that everybody started to look at me a little weirdly… I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it was funny.

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

Ubuntu: add-apt-repository: command not found|(2)

When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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