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<>Summary Preliminaries Window Manager GNOME KDE Xfce Enlightenment Office OpenOffice Abiword Gnumeric KOffice Imendio Planner Scribus Internet Firefox Thunderbird Evolution Meebo Pidgin Utilities Java Flash Multimedia mplayer
Rhythmbox Totem gstreamer Voice Over IP (VOIP) Skype Ekiga Graphics GQview GIMP Emulator DosBox Wine Fonts Questions Resources
<>Preliminaries <>Window Manager GNOME - base on GTK+ KDE - base on Qt Xfce - base on GTK+ Enlightenment <>Office OpenOffice # apt-get install openoffice.org Abiword - a Microsoft word clone # apt-get install abiword Gnumeric - a better spreadsheet than OpenOffice Calc # apt-get install gnumeric KOffice - the K Desktop Environment # apt-get install koffice Imendio Planner # apt-get install planner Scribus - a dedicated desktop publishing program similar to Adobe PageMaker # apt-get install scribus <>Internet Firefox - web browser # apt-get install firefox Thunderbird - e-mail # apt-get install thunderbird Evolution - It is very similar to Outlook # apt-get install evolution Pidgin - a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client
# apt-get install pidgin <>Utilities Java Installing Free Java # apt-get install java-gcj-compat To install the development environment # apt-get install java-gcj-compat-dev Installing IcedTea - It is available on Ubuntu 7.10 in the Universe repository. # apt-get install icedtea-java7-jre Installing Sun Java Ubuntu 7.04 # apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre # apt-get install Java2 1.4: j2re1.4 Sun Java SDK (Software Development Kit) Ubuntu 7.10 # apt-get install icedtea-java7-jdk Ubuntu 7.04 # apt-get install sun-java6-jdk Note: You probably want to do the same with jar, javac, javadoc, javah, javap and javaws: # update-alternatives --config java # update-alternatives --config jar # vim /etc/jvm /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun
Java on Mozilla Firefox Ubuntu 7.10 # apt-get install icedtea-java7-plugin Ubuntu 7.04 # apt-get install sun-java6-plugin Flash # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree <>Multimedia mplayer - general playing Rhythmbox Totem - movie gstreamer audacious - audio # apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer smplayer audacious realplay # apt-get install audacious-mac # apt-get install mac flac cuetools shntool
# apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras # apt-get install gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstre
Make firefox uses mplayer # apt-get remove totem-mozilla <>Voice Over IP (VOIP) Skype Method-I
# wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb # dpkg -i skype_debian-1.3.0.53-1_i386.deb Method-II # vim /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free # apt-get update # apt-get install skype
Ekiga - supports both the SIP and H.323 (based on OpenH323) protocols # apt-get install ekiga <>Graphics GQview # apt-get install gqview GIMP # apt-get install gimp <>Emulator DosBox # apt-get install dosbox Wine - allows many Microsoft Windows applications to run under X Windows A very good website with information on how to use Wine: http://www.frankscorner.org/ IEs 4 Linux (http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page) # vim /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy universe deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main # wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add # apt-get update # apt-get install wine cabextract $ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz $ tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz $ cd ies4linux-* $ ./ies4linux <>Fonts # apt-get install msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree # fc-cache -fv
<>Questions What difference between linux and MS Windows file system structure? What sub-directory is the storage place of configuration files? How to search a file location from linux file system?
<>Resources "Professional Linux Programming", Chap 9, GUI Building with Glade and GTK+/GNOME Enlightenment (window manager) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_%28window_manager%29 http://www.enlightenment.org/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
http://developers.facebook.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook Linuxidc (Linux 公社) http://www.linuxidc.com/ RestrictedFormats https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats Installing Flash on Ubuntu http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash Advanced Packaging Tool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt-get https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGetHowto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html Unofficial APT repositories http://www1.apt-get.org/ //++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++