The new distribution release of GParted Live has been rolled out. Here is the new GParted Live version 0.14.1-6, a powerful Linux distribution that was designed for disk partitioning purposes. This new version of GParted is now supports Windows 8 which means we can boot this GParted on a Windows 8 computer and edit the partition inside it.
Handbrake is a popular and powerful video transcoder for Linux. With this tool you can convert your DVD movie into other video format such as MP4 or MKV. Handbrake comes with a simple GUI front end.
FLV is a common video format that usually found on online video website such as YouTube and some others. In some cases, we want to convert the FLV video and save the audio into MP3 format. In Linux, especially Ubuntu, we can easily convert FLV to MP3 using FFMpeg package. See how we do it.
A. Install FFMpeg
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
B. Convert FLV video to MP3
To convert, use the following command
ffmpeg -i /home/video/test.flv /home/music/test.mp3
Change the /home/video/test.flv with your flv video location and change /home/music/test.mp3 as the destination.
What is your favorite download manager for your Linux distribution? There are several good download manager applications available for Linux. Have you ever tried Fatrat? Fatrat is an open source download manager for Linux written in C++ and built on top of the Trolltech Qt 4 library. It is rich in features and is continuously extended.
With Fatrat, we can download torrent, ftp file and many more. We can also manage and limit the download bandwidth limit and speed. Fatrat is a free and powerful download manager that is easy to use and rich features.
yum install clamtk
nano /etc/freshclam.conf
Google Chrome can be added to Linux Mint 14 Nadia in a simple way. See how we install Google Chrome stable on Linux Mint 14 Nadia.
Open Terminal and edit the /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
Add the following line to the sources.list file
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
Update Linux Mint
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Enjoy Google Chrome on Linux Mint 14
On my previous tutorial, I've show you how to install a headless VirtualBox on a ClearOS 6.3. Now, on this tutorial, I will show you how to install the extension pack. This extension pack is required to enable the remote administration of Virtualbox using RDP or phpvirtualbox.
cd /tmp
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.4/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.4-81684.vbox-extpack
VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.4-81684.vbox-extpack
Make sure you execute the command above using root privilege.
This tutorial will show you how to install VirtualBox on a ClearOS 6.3 system. Virtualbox can be easily installed on ClearOS 6.3 without a problem. But, you will only see the headless (command mode) of Virtualbox instead of ordinary Virtualbox GUI.
After ClearOS 6.3 is installed and work properly, you can start installing Virtualbox. I assume you have a good internet connection to do this tutorial. This is the modified version of the original tutorial shown on Howtofoge.com. http://www.howtoforge.com/vboxheadless-running-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox-4.1-on-a-headless-centos-6.2-server
Open Terminal and follow these steps below.
A. Create new admin user
groupadd admin
useradd -d /home/admin -m -g admin -s /bin/bash admin
B. Install Virtualbox
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install SDL kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms
In my case, I still need to install gcc manually so I add this command
yum install gcc
Webmin is a must have application for server administrator. Webmin can help us manage and administer many things on an Ubuntu server via remote web interface. For more information about webmin, please visit the official webmin page. The latest version of Webmin when I write this post is webmin 1.610. It has a better and nicer look compared to previous version.
Now it's the time to install the latest Skype 4.1.0 on OpenSUSE 12.2. Skype 4.1.0 for Linux brings a lot improvements. In order to install Skype on OpenSUSE, please download the latest version of Skype 4.1 for OpenSUSE from this link.
After download, you will have a file called: skype-4.1.0.20-suse.i586.rpm. Now we are ready to install it.
Open Terminal or Konsole and type this command
cd /home/dhani/Downloads ===== this is the download location
rpm -ivh skype-4.1.0.20-suse.i586.rpm
If you got no errors, Skype is now should be ready. If you tried to install it on OpenSUSE 12.2 on 64bit system, you will get the following error
dhani@linux-m5a4:~/Downloads> rpm -ivh skype-4.1.0.20-suse.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libQtCore.so.4 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libQtDBus.so.4 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libQtGui.so.4 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libQtNetwork.so.4 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libQtWebKit.so.4 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libQtXml.so.4 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libXv.so.1 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
libpng12-0 is needed by skype-4.1.0.20-suse121.i586
To solve it, we need to install those packages first and re execute the rpm -ivh command above.
On my own experience, Kubuntu 13.04 Alpha 1 can be installed through Virtualbox easily. There was no problem when I tried to install this distro on Virtualbox 4.2.2. As usual, after installing a new distro on my Virtualbox, the next main thing is to install the Guest Additions on the guest system. It's the most important thing since we can get better performance and visualisation after installing Guest Additions. OK here is how to install Virtualbox Guest Additions on Kubuntu 13.04 Alpha 1.
1. Boot the Kubuntu 13.04 Alpha 1 guest machine.
2. Go to Devices | Install Guest Additions on the Virtualbox window
3. If the autorun prompt does not work, you can open or browse the content of the Virtualbox Guest Additions on Kubuntu 13.04.
Kubuntu 13.04 with codename Raring Ringtail is now available for testing. Here I just want to share some screenshots of this new Kubuntu 13.04 Raring RIngtail. It's a pretty Linux distribution that is lightweight, beauty and easy to use.
Kubuntu 13.04 Desktop
The development version of Kubuntu is now reached version 13.04 Alpha 1. This next Kubuntu uses Raring Ringtail as its codename. So, whats new on this Kubuntu 13.04? Technically, there are a lot of improvements have been made to this version but I will not explain here. You may read the full release not of the Kubuntu 13.04 Alpha 1 here.
