This simple tutorial shows you how to install Skype in the Elementary OS 0.2 Luna. As you may know, Elementary OS is a lightweight and beautiful Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. So that you can easily install Skype in it via the Canonical Partners repository.
To get started, start the Software Center from dock, navigate to Edit -> Software Sources…
In next window, go to Other Software tab. Check the boxes to enable Canonical Partners repository:
After that, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal window. Run below commands to update package lists and install Skype:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install skype
Once done, you can open Skype from the top-left Applications menu.
Besides Unity Webapps, Fogger is a good alternative to turns your web apps into regular desktop apps on Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Fogger acts as a bridge between web applications and the linux desktop. It exposes an easy to use JS API to webapps which can be used to interact with the host desktop environment. It can also be used to write basic desktop apps for linux in pure web style.
This tutorial will show you how to install Fogger in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux Mint via PPA.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run commands to add PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:loneowais/fogger
After that, run commands to update package lists and install Fogger:
As you may know, Gloobus Preview is a simple application based on Apple’s “Quicklook”, designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file.
Its is very easy to use, just select a file in Nautilus file browser, press SPACE and the file will open in a less than a second. Then you can press again on SPACE on your keyboard to close it.
Want to install Wunderlist 2 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint Desktop? Well, here I’ll show you how to do it via fogger, which will install the Wunderlist 2 web app on your desktop.
UPDATE: It seems that the Wunderlist 2 is not working properly with fogger now, you may use Wunderlist 2 with your web browser by visiting http://www.wunderlist.com/.
Fogger is a simple application which turns your web apps into into regular Linux desktop apps. It’s kinda similar to Unity Webapps. Fogger uses WebKitGtk as its web interface. It acts as a bridge between web applications and the linux desktop. It exposes an easy to use JS API to webapps which can be used to interact with the host desktop environment. It can also be used to write basic desktop apps for linux in pure web style.
Install Fogger:
Fogger is available for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13, 15, 16 via its PPA.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below 3 commands one by one. Copy the codes via Ctrl+C and paste in terminal via Ctrl+Shift+V:
Man Page Editor is a simple graphical tool for writing the manpage. The developer of Xfce Theme Manager wrote this GTK app and here’s why:
“I write a number of my own programs, and have always had a bit of a problem writing the manpage, I have used the excellent ‘ManEdit’ but development on this has been stalled for a number of years.
So I finally decided to write my own and this is the result. This is only the first draft and there is LOTS to be done, so bugs and suggestions are welcome, please click on the ‘About’ button in the program for my email address.”
The latest stable Linux Kernel 3.10.6 has been released. All users of the 3.10 kernel series must upgrade. Here’s how to install / upgrade in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.04 Precise and 12.10 Quantal.
The Linux Kernel 3.10.6 comes with lots of fixes and improvements, such as updated Radeon, i915 vedio drivers, update RAID, Wireless, drivers and so forth. See the announcement.
Install / Upgrade Kernel 3.10.6
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to download the DEBs:
Want to use Google Calendar in Ubuntu? Well, here I’ll show you how to install an indicator which provides Google Calendar integration on Ubuntu and Linux Mint desktop.
The calendar indicator is an open-source applet allows to add, edit and delete Google Calendar events as well as to create new calendars.
Once you installed this indicator, you can login your Google Account and set the automatic synchronization time in its Preferences window.
After that, you can click ‘Show Calendar’ in the indicator menu to dispay your calendar.
Install Google Calendar Indicator
The developer has added the packages to his PPA repository. So far, it supports Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, and Linux Mint 13, 14, 15.
To add the ppa, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal and then run below commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
After that, update the package lists and install Google Calendar:
This quick tutorial is going to show you how to add a folder to Nautilus file browser ‘Places’ sidebar in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 13.10 Quantal.
Actually this will add your folders to a new column called Bookmarks. You can add a user folder, system folder, mounted folder to sidebar by going into the directory in Nautilus and then click the “gear” button and click Bookmark this Location
If you’re on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise with Nautilus 3.4.x, use menu Bookmarks -> Add Bookmark instead.
Gdebi is a lightweight deb packages installer which was the default in Ubuntu Desktop. Now Ubuntu uses Ubuntu Software Center which is slow and frequently gives me ‘The package is of bad quality’ error.
You can easily install Gdebi package installer (default in Linux Mint) and set it as default deb installer by this tutorial.
Go to Ubuntu Software (or App Center for Ubuntu 24.04 and higher), search for and install GDebi Package Installer (gdebi) package:
Then, open your file manager and go to Properties window of one deb package by right-clicking on it. Under open with tab, highlight Gdebi package installer and click Set as default button.
PAC is a free alternative to SecureCRT and Putty. It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.
PAC Manager works on Debian/Ubuntu, and RPM based linux platforms. All you need to do is download and install the installer package and fix denpendencies.
Features:
Unique linux app to implement SecureCRT’s functionality (more or less!)
Remote and local macros
Remotely send commands with EXPECT regexp
Cluster connections!! Connections on same cluster share keystrokes!!
Scripting support! (vía Perl code)
Serial/tty connection via cu/tip/remote-tty connections!!
Pre/post connections local executions
TABS OR WINDOWS for connections!!
Proxy support
KeePass integration!
Wake On LAN capabilities
Possibility to split terminals in the same TAB!
Quick acces to configured connections via tray menu icon
Best linux GUI for ssh, telnet, sftp, rdesktop, vnc, cu, remote-tty, ftp, etc
DEB, RPM & .TAR.GZ packages available!!
More to come (ASA I find time!)
FREE (GNU GPLv3)
To get started, download the .deb package from SourceForge.
Then press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run blow commands to install the package:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/pac-*all.deb
Fix dependency problem if any:
sudo apt-get -f install
Install the indicator support for Unity Desktop:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2-appindicator-perl
When everything is done, open PAC Manager from the Unity Dash.
