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Skype has just been uploaded to the "partner" official Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx repository. So you can now install skype in your ubuntu 10.04 without downloading the setup files from skype . So to install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from the partner repository, go to System > Administration > Software Sources and on the "Other software" tab, enable (check the box next to it) the " http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner " repository. Now type $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install skype Enjoy using skype. See http://linux.dipin.info/2010/03/resolve-skype-video-chat-web-cam-issue.html to solve your webcam issues.

Adobe Reader is a famous pdf reader. Command line way: $ wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.3.2/enu/AdbeRdr9.3.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb $ sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.3.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb Non Command Line: Download the deb file for 32-bit linux os from here . Just double click the .deb file you just downloaded to install adobe reader. Enjoy!

Upgrade To Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Without An Internet Connection Well, if you don't have an Internet connection, you can still upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, but you'll need to download the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx alternate CD somehow. You can download the Ubuntu Alternate ISO from HERE . Then, you can then either write the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alternate ISO onto a CD or simply mount the ISO image using the following command: $ sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0 Give exact path to " ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso " if your are not in the directory where you have saved the alternate cd image. Once you insert the CD or mount the ISO image, a dialog should pop up offering you the option to upgrade using that CD / ISO image. If of any reason the pop up doesn't come, you can start the upgrade manually by typing the command below. $ gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

Many of us may know how to extract a .Tar.gz file. But how many of us know how to extract a .bz2, .lz, etc files. Some extra option to tar will do the needfull, but we will need to know the options for each type of archive. But no worries any more. You can now use ' unp ', a script that extract any type of archive by itself. To extract any archive just type: $ unp archive_file where " archive_file " can be a rar, zip, tar.gz, deb, tar.gz2, rpm or any other archive. The best thing is that you can use unp to extract multiple types of archives at the same time. example: $ unp *.tar *.tar.gz *.tar.bz *.rpm *.deb *.zip *.rar To extract all the archive files in the current directory: $ unp * Install unp $ sudo apt-get install unp

To setup your ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx for multimedia see my post: How to make Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Multimedia Ready

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I am sure that this might have happened to you also, when you tried to install a package, and then a message showed "Failed dependencies". Now use apt-rdepends to know the dependencies and their dependencies of a package. When we make a query for dependencies of a package, apt-rdepends searches the APt and return the list of dependencies and the dependencies of each dependent package. insatll Install apt-rdepends $ sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends Lets see the dependencies of vlc $ sudo apt-rdepends vlc vlc Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8) Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2) Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) Depends: libgl1 Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) Depends: libnotify1 (>= 0.4.5) Depends: libnotify1-gtk2.10 Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1) Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1) Dep...

You can face this issue in two conditions. 1. Those who have installed ubuntu 10.04 might encountered this problem. The screen goes blank just after grub (may be after bios startup, if grub timeout early). Please follow the steps below to fix it. Press e on getting the GRUB bootloader(if not getting grub, press and hold shift key to get grub). Go to the line which says 'quiet and splash', delete these words and type in one of the option from below in their place. The suggested options that I have found are hardware specific. Here is a list: Older Intel video card: i915.modeset=1 or i915.modeset=0 nVidia: nomodeset Generic: xforcevesa Now press Ctrl + X to boot Now login to your Ubuntu as usual. If you have a Nvidia graphics card, this may be the issue with it, Now goto System->Administration->Hardware drivers, and select and activate the nvidia current driver if you have an nvidia card. The driver will be downloaded and activated automatically, and you wil...

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Install the libdvdcss library. # sudo su - # apt-get install libdvdcss2 # apt-get install libdvdread4 # cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/ # ./install-css.sh If it says that the package is not found then try them again after executing the below lines: add medibuntu repositories in your sources list $ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list $ sudo apt-get --quiet update $ sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring $ sudo apt-get --quiet update Enjoy!