Install KDE 4.3 RC2 in openSUSE11.1

I am using KDE 4.3 RC2 in openSUSE 11.1, and simply its rock solid...
I used one click installer to install it.
Yeh, i know few days remaining for the official final release, but still RC2 is working fine.
One click installer for openSUSE 11.1 from factory repo:
Here

For more versions, read here.

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Google OS -- New era going to Begin.

Hi all...
Google announced to jump into OS war. I already mentioned this is openSUSE forum, but no body was agree that time, i hope this time they will. But this time, its something different to try.
I just read the post from Google blog. The things are going to be centralized this time, and Google are adopting it well while looking at its market shares.
I hope, it will be a big blow for M$.

Read more here.

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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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Development Release: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3

openSUSE 11.2 M3 is released yesterday and is ready for testing.

"The openSUSE project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux kernel, KDE 4.3 beta 2, GNOME 2.27.2, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 alpha, and more! A lot has changed since the milestone 2 release, and many packages have been updated for 11.2 milestone 3. Some of the major changes in this release include: PulseAudio 0.9.15, Konversation 1.2 alpha 3, VirtualBox 2.2.4, WINE 1.1.23."

Read release announcement.

To download it, follow the following link.
Download link

I am eagerly waiting for KDE4.3 final release(28-07-2009).
Hope can use it in next development release, or i will update the current system to it.

So have a lot of fun!!!

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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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One click installer for KDE 4.2.4

Hi all.
To use 1-click installer for openSUSE 11.1, click the below link:
openSUSE 11.1

For openSUSE 11.0:
openSUSE 11.0

For openSUSE 10.3:
openSUSE 10.3

For other distros please visit this page.

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Fedora 11 is OUT!!!

Here is some HOT news from fedora project.
They announce fedora 11 on 09-06-2009. Some of the key new feature are listed below:
1- 20 Second Startup
2- Anaconda Storage Rewrite
3- Archer
4- Automatic Fonts & Mime Installer
5- ControlGroups
6- Cups PolicyKit Integration
7- DBusPolicy
8- Firefox 3.5
9- gcc 4.4
10- Gnome 2.26
11- KDE4.2
12- NetBeans 6.5
13- Python 2.6
14- rpm 4.7
15- Xserver 1.6
16- 2.6.29-4 Linux kernel
17- ext4 as the default file system
18- OpenOffice 3.1.0
19- Xfce to 4.6
20- nVidia kernel modesetting through the nouveau open source driver.
and many more... read here.

Fedora 11 is available in two desktops, snapshots of the desktops(Gnome, KDE).

KDE Desktop


Gnome Desktop

Downloads Links for 32bit Live CDs:
Kde desktop
Gnome desktop

For other downloads please visit this page.

To view the recent changes visit this link.

I am going to download it tomorrow, and give it a try. I think, i will download KDE desktop for time being. Because i love KDE.
I love to change distro in a week.... just a week b4 i installed Ubuntu 9.04 and now will be fedora.....haha

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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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Additional YaST Package Repositories (openSUSE)

There are a lot of internal and external repos for distros.
But prefer to use internal repos from the distro website. External repos some time make the system slow and most of the time not accessible.

Here are the addtional list of repos which mostly contain important app like:
- VLC
- openoffice.org
- Java
- Packamn
- Nvidia drivers
- ATI drivers
- Madwifi
- Google Linux software repository
- Dell
- Apache
- Compiz and XGL
- Wine
- Mozilla
- Smart
and so on.................

Link:
Click here

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One click installer for KDE 4.2.3

I just updated my system to KDE 4.2.3 from KDE 4.1.3 in openSUSE 11.1.
I was using Mandriva 2009.1 before, but as i am big lover of openSUSE so i came back to openSUSE again. But i am using Mandriva too on Box. openSUSE on laptop.

So the easy way to upgrade your KDE from 4.2.2 or 4.1.3 is to use one click installer.
Note: During installation don't miss any lib. Install all files needed.

Here is one click installer for openSUSE 11.1:
One click installer

If you are using other version of openSUSE, so this page will help you more:
Other versions for openSUSE

If you are using other distro like: fedora, kubuntu, Mandriva. You can find links here:
Other links

Cheers...

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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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Update to KDE 4.2.3 in Mandriva 2009.1

Yesterday i update my system from KDE 4.2.2 to KDE 4.2.3 in Mandriva 2009.1.
The update process is very simple.
1st open 'configure your computer' and enable repo 'Main Testing', just for this update(KDE4.2.3).
After updating the system, if you don't want to break the things, so disable the repo.
Now open console(terminal) and login as root with su and type:

urpmi --auto-update

It will check the updates, and will ask for confirmation.
Around 325 packages(depends) and 290Mb space temporary will be used. After installation, the rpms will be deleted from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms directory.

After completing the process, you can check again and type the command above in terminal.

And that's it. You are done.
Enjoy New desktop.

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SSH access via GUI

I had some dedicated servers based on Linux. I use mostly terminal to access them by using SSH, we don't have FTP access to the servers to make them secure.
I like to use SSH through terminal. But some time when you are uploading one by one file after 2 and 3 minutes, its a bit painful. Specially this case arise when you are a web developer, and testing your files on live server and uploading it every minute.
So i find a very good software for it. Named 'gFTP', Its from gnome desktop. There are also many ftp software, like filezilla. But it does not have SSH2, to let you use it.
So the better and simple option is to use gFTP.
You can install it from software package management in any distro.

As now i am on Mandriva, you can install it from terminal by typing this:

urpmi in gFTP

You can change the urpmi in for other distros. But the gFTP will be there like for openSUSE:

zypper in gFTP

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Solution for: Could not connect to host 'localhost'. MySQL Error Nr. 2002.

After installing Mysql we face some minor problems, one of them is:

Could not connect to host 'localhost'. MySQL Error Nr. 2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'

So the easy solution for it is that open terminal and login as root:

su

enter root password.
Type:

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

apache2 some time refer to httpd, it depends on distro.
And now try to login to Mysql.

Tip: For each boot up to start Mysql service automatically, Open Yast2, click on Run level, and enable Mysql service there. (This tip is for openSUSE).

For Mandriva: Open 'Configure your computer' and select System and click on 'Manage system services by enabling and disabling them' and enable mysqld there.

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