I have installed Firefox 4 in my Debian Testing installation from Launchpad PPA. It is quite stable and I have decided to use it instead of Firefox 3. Most of the addons I used is compatible with Firefox 4 by now. However, the version of Greasemonkey available in Mozilla Firefox Addons Site is not compatible with Mozilla Firefox v4 latest build. To install the latest nightly build of Greasemonkey, I went to Greasemonkey Nightly Download and installed it. However Greasefire is not available, we can install userscripts directly from Userscripts website for now.

I was trying to run Oracle Virtualbox in my Debian testing installation in which I have just installed Ubuntu Natty Kernel from Ubuntu repositories. I got an error followed by a dialog prompting me to run:
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
as root.

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My friend recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. He is not able to boot into the Desktop Environment. As he was trying to fix things up, he got this error while running startx: Continue Reading

UPDATE: Rick Spencer, Ubuntu Desktop Development Team Lead, wrote in his blog:

Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release. We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu.This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.

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If you are using Debian Squeeze, you can install plymouth and it will install some plymouth themes by default. You can list the installed themes by running the following command in the terminal: Continue Reading

I have written a small shell script to preview plymouth themes. I have successfully tested it in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and Debian Squeeze Testing. It should also work with other Linux distros. Please make sure you have installed the package plymouth-x11 (or equivalent) before using this script.

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I was trying to play a video with Totem in Debian Squeeze Testing and got the following error and only video played.

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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

In Ubuntu, when you need to run a command as root, you just have to run the command with a preceding “sudo” i.e. 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.

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