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Install Compiz & compiz Fusion plugins. Add repositories to sources.list file add these lines at the end & save. after adding entries, update for gnome. for kde. For Fusion-icon. Install Emerald themes. For manually starting Compiz-fusion Press Alt+F2, then type For Autostart during boot...

Howto upgrade kernel(2.6.22-9-generic) in Feisty Fawn source: ubuntu geek

This is for dial-up user on Ubuntu who does not find their /etc/resolv.conf file stable. i.e this gets revoked when reboot or just the computer be idle for a while. Thus changing ISP`s nameserver to OpenDNS becomes tiresome. so just editing by # sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf does not help...

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via...

This nonsense smart removed sudo while i was removing vim. I am not able to use apt, yum, smart now. What do i do? Even rpm doesn't work to install sudo. I tried compiling the source using make, it also gives error. Now i shud shutdown my pc or not???? Please answer as fast as possible!!!!! :(...

The following guide will teach you (step by step) how to install Compiz Fusion on your Ubuntu (Kubuntu) 7.04 operating system. Be aware that Compiz Fusion is still in heavy development, so it may not be very stable. For me (at this moment) it's pretty stable, as I didn't encounter any bugs...

i have ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed. got the iso of 6.10 frm chip mag cd.i have burnt this image on a cd. how do i go about updating without using a net connection. i tried the commands sudo apt-cdrom add sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade but it started downloading...

Hi, I recently bought Nokia E50, a Symbian 9.1 3rd edition phone. I read on quite a few sites that I can share my net connection with my mobile through bluetooth by installing Gnubox on my Symbian phone. I referred to a couple of guides...

:confused: yesterday when I logged into my edgy , To my surprise Add/Remove programs options was missing. Also , I could not perform any administartive task even using sudo in terminal , it says my only account is not having sudo proviliges. can anyone help??? please....:(

Hello, i have installed kubuntu 6.06 LTS for pc. I am completely new to this ditro and i need help updating it. I tried 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade' but in vain. I don't know how to use adept. Please help as i am now stuck with a distro that does not even have g++ or gcc...

MTNL Triband on Ubuntu LIVE CD. Here what i referred to make it work:- "right click on your desktop. you will see a menu entry "run terminal". click it. a terminal should pop up. now type: sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf hit enter. now enter the superuser password (= by default the same...

any body can gain access to root by cmd "sudo -s" howto prevent this:mad: