KDE 4.6.0 is OUT

KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE’s three product lines.

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KDE4.5.3 is here…

KDE team announced the 4.5.3 release, which comes with bug fixes and translation updates.

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KDE4.5.1 released, Upgrade in openSUSE 11.3

1st day of September, 22nd of Ramadan and here we are with the 1st post for the month. KDE team proudly announced the new release of KDE4.5 (4.5.1). There are a lot of bugs fixes since 4.5.0 release. One can read the changelog for more details.

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KDE4.5.0 released, install/upgrade in openSUSE 11.3

KDE4.5.0 is released with some major 16,022 bug fixes and 172,3 new features.

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Upgrade to 11.3 via zypper dup through Terminal - openSUSE -

If you want to install from scratch (new and fresh installation), this guide is for you. In this post, i will guide how to upgrade to 11.3 from previous versions mainly like 11.2 through zypper dup command.

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openSUSE 11.3 installation (dual boot with windows 7)

openSUSE 11.3 is released and many new users will be looking for some simple guide to have a dual boot. I am going to guide you in this article step by step with images showing the executed step that how to install openSUSE with windows 7.

Full guide...

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Install urdu fonts in Linux (Ubuntu & openSUSE)

Ok, this was not that easy stuff if you don’t know how to do it and where to find it. I mean 1st fonts, then installation or copying to the right directory. Websites like bbcurdu.com and urdupoint.com are common Urdu news sites which i am sure most of the Urdu reading people will read for the latest news and articles. These two websites use different fonts for rendering for browsers like Firefox and Chrome. I am not using any Urdu keyboard here and not using translation for the whole system, its just how to read Urdu websites in Linux, so please this tutorial is just for installing fonts system wide for browsers in Linux not a language pack etc. I will focus on two distros at the moment, Ubuntu and openSUSE. Ubuntu 9.04 and openSUSE 11.2(KDE4.4.3) will be used for the installation with Firefox 3.6.3, Firefox 3.0.19, Chrome 6.0.400.0.

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Generate Random Password in PHP

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Install/Configure SSH in Linux

Tutorial is here.

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Install Arial/Time New Romans etc fonts in openSUSE11.2

Read details here.

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Simple bash script: Backup www directory and MySQL database

Read complete article at anl4u.com

Link

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Backup openoffice files automatically

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openSUSE 11.2 installation

Read the installation procedure with snapshots here.

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Install Flash 64bit in Linux

Its still in alpha stage but works very well.
So i am going to write a simple howto here. As this tutorial will cover openSUSE distro. But the basic steps are the same for other distros also.

openSUSE:
1. Remove all installed flash related packages in YaST software management.
2. Download the file from here:
Adobe Labs Site
3. Extract the plugin, and place a copy of it in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
Command:

cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/

Remember to mention the path to plugin, where it is extracted.
4. Restart Firefox. Check that Firefox sees the plugin by looking in the Add-ons.

And that's it.

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Solution: Grub issues in opensuse with dual boot(XP, Vista, Win7)

Most annoying issue with dual boot is grub error. Some issues which mean to be grub issues are listed below:
1- Didn't show the grub boot menu.
2- Can only boot to one OS at a time(No choice to choose).
3- The most annoying one is:
- Operating system not found.
4- Grub loading, please wait...
- Error 15

I always do simple grub installation after dual installation, OR after changing the bootloader entries. But that depends if i got into trouble with it.

If you are facing such issues, hope this will help you out.

1- Boot your pc from a live CD.
2- After booting, open konsole(terminal) and became root by:

su -

3- Type:

grub

4- Type:

find /boot/grub/menu.lst

5- Note this line there : (hd0,4)
It may be different for your system.
6- Now type this by using this from above (hd0,4):

root (hd0,4)

7- Type:

setup (hd0)

8- Type

quit

9- Reboot your system

reboot

After restart your boot menu will be there with multiple entries.

Last updated: 30-08-2010

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Install MS fonts in openSUSE 11.1

Some time we need to use fonts like: new times roman and arial and verdana.
These fonts are not available by default in openSUSE. So we need to install them manually.
Its easy to install, just some basic steps and we will be done.

So lets start:
1st of all we need cabextract, by default it will be installed in openSUSE 11.1 version, but if not then install it by this way.

Open terminal and become root by su and then password.
type:

zypper in cabextract

Now we will use 10.3 script to install the fonts, i had checked it and its working fine.
type:

wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh

Now type:

chmod a+x fetchmsttfonts.sh

Now last time type:

sh fetchmsttfonts.sh

And it will install MS fonts for you, to check, open openoffice writer and you will see all fonts there.

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Howto: Login screen gone [solution in openSUSE (kde4)]

Howto:
There are two ways to sort out this type of issues, If your login screen gone, and you can't see your login screen anymore.

1st Solution is:
1- Login with your username and password from command based screen.(You can use failsafe OR your normal one).
2- type:

startx

Hit enter, and you will be able to go to desktop.
3- After this, change the theme from YaST->system->/etc/sysconfig Editor->Desktop->Display manager->DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME.
There will be two DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME, choose the middle one.
and enter your desired working theme name and hit ok.
4- Logout from here.
5- Restart.

2nd Solution is:
1- Login with root from command based screen.(You can use failsafe OR your normal one).
2- type this:

vi /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

3- search for line like this:
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME = "true-nature"
true-nature is theme name.just for example i put it there.
4- Change it to your desired one:
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME = "oxygen"
5- Save the file.
6- Reboot.
Howto save in vi: To change any text, use 'i' to insert any text, hit ESC to end writing, and then hold left shift+z(hit twice). And your changes will be saved.

And that's it. You are done.

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Dual Boot: install Ubuntu 9.04 beside M$ XP

Hi all,
Today i am going to write a simple and easy tutorial fro beginners, that how to install Ubuntu with M$ XP already installed on your machine.
Before starting the points, user should be sure, that there is enough space which will be unallocated.
For doing all these, you can use software like "Partition magic" in XP. We need around 20GB space.
I am not going into more details about "partition magic" here, that how to do that. You can search web for it, Google is your friend in this. OR you can use the help file from partition magic itself.

So lets start...
1st of all boot from LIVE Cd of Ubuntu 9.04, which i think you already have now. If not, then you can download it from Ubuntu website. Download page here.

NOTE: Sorry, i don't have snapshots for it this time, next time i will try to put snapshots too. But hope, his guide will be easy enough without snapshots.
1- After booting from LIVE cd, click on "install" icon which is on desktop. and select your language and press "forward" button.
2- Select time zone region and click "forward".
3- In this step, select your keyboard type, usually it is 'USA' and click "forward".
4- The next screen is about the partitioning. Choose "Specify partitions manually" and click "forward".
5- This screen will show you the partition structure.
We will create two partitions on the unused free space with swap (2GB).
- One for root file system (around 10GB)
- 2nd for home. (4GB)
At the time of installation my partition looks like this:
sda1 ntfs (this is drive C by default)[windows]
sda5 ntfs (this is drive D)[windows]
free space
I had 16GB to distribute among swap,root,home.
i- 1st create swap, just select the free space and click on new partition.
Swap is always double of your RAM, or equal but not less. I choose 2GB, my RAM is 1.5GB.
ii- Now create home and then create root.
More details: howto partition:
For each new partition, select the free space. Click on the New partition, then enter size for the current partition. Then choose filesystem, then home or root from the mount point drop down menu.
/ represents root, and /home represents home.
I hope, i make it clear enough to create new partitions.
6- If you are done successfully with the above step, next step is to set mount point for your windows partition.
7- Now select ntfs partition(mostly it is sda1) and click on "Edit partition" and choose:
- Don't change partition size.
- Use as : "ntfs" from the drop down menu.
- Don't tick format partition.
- Set mount point to "/windows".

Till here, you are done with the most complicated part in the installation.
8- Click "forward" to go to the next step.
NOTE: on clicking, it will ask for your D partition(if you have) that it has no mount point. Just ignore it.
9- Enter all details here in this step regarding your profile.
10- In this step you can import data from your windows OS. Its upto you here.
11- Now is the time to click "install". And let Ubuntu do the rest for you.
NOTE: Make sure, that every thing in the setup went fine b4 clicking "install".
12- Restart your machine after the installation process.

And You Are DONE!!!

After Installation:
IMPORTANT: Ubuntu did not create any root password for you by default, i don't know why they did not add this feature.
So to do that, open terminal and type:

sudo passwd

It will ask you for your password, enter your user password. After that enter twice your root password. And that's it.

Hope, this guide will help you through the process of installation.

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Install Adobe reader in Linux

Installing adobe reader is quite easy, personally i prefer to use Okular from KDE.
There are many ways to install adobe reader.
1- If you want to install it from software management, so go to software management in openSUSE, and search for word "acroread" and check it for installation.
In Ubuntu, open System->Administration->Synaptic package manager and type "acroread". and mark it for installation.

2- The 2nd and easiest way which i also follow is download adobe reader from adobe website for your respective OS and just double click on it after installation to install it.
You can keep the backup for next time. So hazel free for next time.

Download size is around 60.4MB for version 9.1.0.
Here is the link.

3- you can install it in terminal like:
Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get acroread

openSUSE:

zypper in acroread

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Solution for: Screen goes black(sleep) in Mandriva 2009.1

I experienced the above issue with my recently installed Mandriva 2009.1 after updating some packages from Main testing repo.
The issue i face was, the following post i took from Mandriva forum, which i posted there.

I am using 2009.1 KDE 4.2.3 on my laptop with Intel 845 chipest.
I have some problems:
1- While opening video, some time screen goes black, or may be in the middle of a video.
Even the video is running there, bcoz sound is still there. Just the screen shows black.
2- This problem also exists without video. Some time while surfing, working.

And i had no choice except to go tty1 to reboot the system. Facing this problem from last 4 days. And facing it twice and thrice a day.

Yesterday i update the system from main testing repo, and there were some updates for intel card. But after that also i face this problem.
I updated it from testing repo in this hope, that it will solve the problem. But the problem is still there.
I disabled Mian testing repo after updating.

Now lets come to the solution part. It was a bit easy task to overcome this problem.
For the current session, open terminal and type the following and then hit Enter.

xset -dpms

Now to avoid this sleeping problem next time, do the following:
1- open .bash_profile file from your home directory.(view->show hidden files)
2- and put the same command above at the end and keep one line blank after that command.
It should be like this:

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME
xset -dpms

This will not effect your screen saver, i tested this.
DPMS is standby, suspend and off.
To stop screen saver put this at the end of that file:

xset s off

Screen saver will not effect any thing, mean the sleeping problem(black). So its upto you now.

NOTE: I will update this post time to time for further updates regarding my laptop. That what is the result after that command.

References:
Mandriva Forum post
Bugzilla


UPDATE-1: Today (26-05-2009) at 5PM, i face this problem again, but this time the screen goes white and i had to restart it by the old way again, i am working on it. Will come back with solution soon.

UPDATE-2: Today (28-05-2009), I update the Intel driver on 26-05-2009 from Main test repos and until now no more black or white screens.

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