Firefox 4 has been released recently and it is not available via update manager in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. The Ubuntu Mozilla Daily Build PPA provides it but it always the latest daily build and not the stable version.
I was trying to play a video with Totem in Debian Squeeze Testing and got the following error and only video played.
While you can download the latest version of Eclipse PDT from Eclipse Download Page and install it manually, it is great to setup a repository instead so that you can get updates from it automatically via update manager. Eclipse is available in the official Debian repos but PDT is not. It is available in Yogarine Eclipse PPA in Launchpad. For Debian Squeeze, add the following line to Sources.list (or add it via Software Sources or in Third Party Repositories in Synaptic): Continue Reading
As I mentioned in my previous post, you can install software from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx PPA to Debian Squeeze Testing. Using the same method, Chromium v9 can be installed in Debian Squeeze using the Ubuntu Chromium Daily PPA.
I have installed Debian Squeeze Testing replacing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and miss some applications only available via Launchpad PPAs. Not that they can’t be compiled from their sources or installed by downloading debs, but it would be great if updates were available from update manager like in Ubuntu. So I decided to add some Ubuntu PPAs and they are working fine. So, I decided to share here with the hope that it would be helpful to my readers.
Pastie is a clipboard manager for gnome with best feature set. It is available in Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and Maverick Meerkat. However, it can be installed in Debian Squeeze/Testing from the same PPA.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and have been using the default theme for quite some time. I was bored with the default boot screen and decided to change it. If you don’t like the purple color of Ubuntu, you can easily change the Desktop theme and wallpaper, but the Pink/Purple Ubuntu Plymouth boot splash is a little difficult to get rid of. You can install other available boot splash by installing other packages, but I like the default boot screen, and just wanted to change its color. To do that, I just cloned the boot screen and made some changes so that it looks like the following.
A lot of Ubuntu 10.10 users have been complaining about Maverick being too slow, typing becoming laggy and video performance being choppy. Here are few things you can try to make it fast again. These have been collected from the user experience discussed in this post in Ubuntu forums.
I have been using gnote for quite some time now instead of Tomboy notes in my Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Gnote currently does not disable add-ins permanently. However someone may find the Note of the Day add-in useful, it annoys me and I tried to disable it in Preferences>Add-ins, even in the latest stable version 7.2. However, that did not work. So, to disable it, I decided to move the plugin file where gnote would not load from.
UPDATE: See the comments below for additional help regarding the issue.
I created a bootable USB pen drive with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Alpha Daily Build on it using Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator-gtk) in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. This gave the following message during startup: Continue Reading