NucleusKore
TheSaint
This is a copy of the tutorial published on my website on
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So you have got your Ubuntu up and running. What next? Well there are loads of things you could do, depending on your priorities. Now I'll tell you what I am not going to do. I am not going to go about this in the conventional "textbook" manner, labelling all the parts of the Ubuntu desktop and cramming you with so much information that you decide enough is enough and delete your Ubuntu install. It's going to be more of need based, learn by example.
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Index
The first thing I'd suggest you do is fix your font and upgrade your multimedia capability. Reading with the default fonts in Ubuntu can be quite uncomfortable. I use the liberation fonts which are the metric equivalents of Times New Roman. Along with this, we can also extend the multimedia capabilitites of your Ubuntu which does not have an "out of the box" capability to play restricted formats such as mp3 and DivX (yes, you, with the 500 GB of mp3 who is reading this right now, in case you did not know, mp3 is a restricted format ).
Open the Firefox webbrowser by clicking (in ALL my tutorials when I say click, I mean single click unless specified otherwise) on it's icon in the toolbar at the top of your Desktop as shown in the picture below.
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In the address bar, type medibuntu.org and press ENTER
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In the medibuntu page click on Repository HowTo
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Scroll down till you reach "Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope":". Highlight the line in the textbox under that as shown, right click on that and click copy.
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In the toolbar above, click on Applications, point to Accessories, and then click on Terminal.
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Now what opens is called a terminal, and you can see what is known as a shell prompt.
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We now have to paste what we copied earlier. There are two ways of doing this, one, simply right click at the prompt and select paste, two press the Shift and Insert keyson your keyboard. Either of these will paste the text residing on your clipboard.
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And press ENTER; you'll be prompted for your password. As you key in your password you will not see asterisk marks (****) as you do in windows, so key in your password carefully, and press ENTER.
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The repository will get added to your Ubuntu.
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We now have to add the GPG key and update apt (the package manager for Ubuntu, think of it as a powerful add/remove programs feature that keeps a track of what's installed and what's available, down to the version numbers). Go to the open Firefox window, scroll down till you get "Then, add the GPG Key:", and highlight and copy the text from the box below that.
*img4.imageshack.us/img4/3377/snapshot11r.th.png
Paste it into the terminal as explained above
and press ENTER.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 India License
So you have got your Ubuntu up and running. What next? Well there are loads of things you could do, depending on your priorities. Now I'll tell you what I am not going to do. I am not going to go about this in the conventional "textbook" manner, labelling all the parts of the Ubuntu desktop and cramming you with so much information that you decide enough is enough and delete your Ubuntu install. It's going to be more of need based, learn by example.
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Index
- Fix your fonts, enable multimedia - follow this post
- Install Adobe flash player
- Firefox - Rediscover the web
- Installing Add-ons, starting with Xmarks
- More Add-ons, Adblock Plus
- Listening To Music
- Listening To Music - with a glass of WINE
- Watching Movies
The first thing I'd suggest you do is fix your font and upgrade your multimedia capability. Reading with the default fonts in Ubuntu can be quite uncomfortable. I use the liberation fonts which are the metric equivalents of Times New Roman. Along with this, we can also extend the multimedia capabilitites of your Ubuntu which does not have an "out of the box" capability to play restricted formats such as mp3 and DivX (yes, you, with the 500 GB of mp3 who is reading this right now, in case you did not know, mp3 is a restricted format ).
Open the Firefox webbrowser by clicking (in ALL my tutorials when I say click, I mean single click unless specified otherwise) on it's icon in the toolbar at the top of your Desktop as shown in the picture below.
*img81.imageshack.us/img81/8015/snapshot1.th.png
In the address bar, type medibuntu.org and press ENTER
*img30.imageshack.us/img30/3669/snapshot2e.th.png
In the medibuntu page click on Repository HowTo
*img37.imageshack.us/img37/1175/snapshot3d.th.png
Scroll down till you reach "Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope":". Highlight the line in the textbox under that as shown, right click on that and click copy.
*img198.imageshack.us/img198/183/snapshot4u.th.png
*img4.imageshack.us/img4/228/snapshot5d.th.png
In the toolbar above, click on Applications, point to Accessories, and then click on Terminal.
*img196.imageshack.us/img196/1846/snapshot6g.th.png
Now what opens is called a terminal, and you can see what is known as a shell prompt.
*img291.imageshack.us/img291/3023/snapshot7.th.png
We now have to paste what we copied earlier. There are two ways of doing this, one, simply right click at the prompt and select paste, two press the Shift and Insert keyson your keyboard. Either of these will paste the text residing on your clipboard.
*img54.imageshack.us/img54/1249/snapshot8.th.png
And press ENTER; you'll be prompted for your password. As you key in your password you will not see asterisk marks (****) as you do in windows, so key in your password carefully, and press ENTER.
*img34.imageshack.us/img34/6159/snapshot9p.th.png
The repository will get added to your Ubuntu.
*img507.imageshack.us/img507/7669/snapshot10.th.png
We now have to add the GPG key and update apt (the package manager for Ubuntu, think of it as a powerful add/remove programs feature that keeps a track of what's installed and what's available, down to the version numbers). Go to the open Firefox window, scroll down till you get "Then, add the GPG Key:", and highlight and copy the text from the box below that.
*img4.imageshack.us/img4/3377/snapshot11r.th.png
Paste it into the terminal as explained above
and press ENTER.
*img524.imageshack.us/img524/6630/snapshot12.th.png]
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