Minitube packaged
Minitube, the youtube video client is now in rpmfusion, I am having some difficulties with the fedora 12 build, but that will come soon.
The packages reside in rpmfusion-free-updates-testing, try them out!
yum install minitube --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing
Installing 64bit flash in Archlinux 64bit.
Howto install flash in 64bit archlinux.
#pacman -S flashplugin
done! I was surprised when I did that by mistake, that it actually seems to have installed the 64bit flash-plugin rather than the 32bit one with nspluginwrapper & co. No more manually moving files around!
Fullscreen flash in firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 crashes when trying to view a flash video in fullscreen.
Not to worry, for there is a workaround.
in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.1pre/firefox.sh
EDIT: the path on Fedora 11 is: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh
you add export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 at the beginning of the file, but underneath #!/bin/sh
So it looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
#fix the goddamn flash bug.
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1# Firefox launcher containing a Profile migration helper for
# temporary profiles used during alpha and beta phases.…
Save, and try out some flash video in fullscreen.
This should work for Archlinux, Fedora and Ubuntu. The path to firefox.sh might vary though.
Workaround taken from https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/333127/comments/13
Fedora 11
This is a short howto get the Nvidia drivers and multimedia stuff installed on your new Fedora 11.
I assume you have a newly installed system before following this. The first thing you want to do before you run
`yum update`
is to install yum-presto:
`yum install yum-presto`,
and save some time and bandwidth. Next up is to install dkms and the devel package for your running kernel,type in
`uname -r`
in your terminal, and if there is no PAE in there install kernel-devel:
`yum install kernel-devel`
Otherwise install kernel-PAE-devel:
`yum install kernel-PAE-devel`
Then run yum update, and when that’s done, reboot.
Nvidia drivers, for this we need to enable the RPMfusion repositories:
`rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm`.
Then install the driver, I use the akmod-nvidia package which builds the required module on reboot:
`yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64`,
then reboot.
When you get back you can go to http://www.adobe.com and download the yum flash-plugin for fedora, or click here and install:
`http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10_for_Linux_(YUM)`
The multimedia stuff is next:
`yum install flash-plugin gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-freeworld gecko-mediaplayer`
That’s that, you should now be able to enjoy all of the webs offerings!
Credit where credit is due: Leigh on fedoraforums for an excellent Nvidia howto: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752
Karmic Koala Alpha 1
Testing Kubuntu Karmic, and KDE 4.3 Beta. This is going to be a great release! KDE 4.3 Beta is much improved from the 4.2.3 I’ve played with recently, all small things, and I’m sure I haven’t found them all yet. One has to be careful updating this thing though, yesterdays updates broke KDE totally, good thing I have fluxbox installed to fall back to when things break. And they will break, this is an alpha release afterall. There’s not a medibuntu repository set up for Karmic, so the Apple trailers won’t play, but everything else is working, Amarok can play daap streams again, pulseaudio seems to be working very well as my Audigy card now again outputs same signal to front and side speakers like I want it to. Flash videos don’t eat as much cpu as they used to.
I installed Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 1 on my main desktop, Athlon XP 2600+ , 1,5 GB ram, Nvidia 6200 AGP and 40GB /, 80 GB /home with ext4 as file system. It’s using less than 500 megs of memory as I type this while Amarok is playing in the background and Firefox running with 1 whole tab open. I realized I suck at writing reviews, so I’ll shut up and post some pictures for you instead, ok? 
While I was taking these, Ksnapshot caused KDE to become unresponsive to anything but ctrl + alt + del bringing up the shutdown menu, and I found out ctrl + alt + backspace is disabled. Annoying.
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- This is what to expect with alpha software.
The calendar has gained some new features, you now get to see the holidays marked in red on the calendar. Configurable too by Country. This one is showing all holidays in Finland.
You can find out more about KDE 4.3 here, and about Koala here.
If you wonder about the theme I’m using, it’s called air and available on http://www.kde-look.org
Debian & Enlightenment = elive
I was looking for something new in linux desktops. Ubuntu and it’s deriatives never really gave me what I wanted from a desktop and they always felt a bit slow on this system at least. I installed Archlinux and discovered the speed I was missing, but it’s too much tweaking neccesary really, ( Archers, please don’t kill me! I like Arch! ) but the point in bringing up Arch, it is where I rediscovered the enlightenment window manager! Installation is easy in Arch:
`pacman -Sy e17-svn e17-extra-svn desktop-file-utils`
and you’re done! Easy. But still, if you really want to enjoy enlightenment you have to check out elive. It is the most beutiful system you will ever see.
It is built on Debian testing, “Lenny”, the 2.6.26.8 linux kernel, and the enlightenment wm.
Thunar is the default filemanager, wich you might know from Xfce. It does a great job, but fails to browse network shares, as in samba. I have yet to find an replacement, I do not want nautilus eiter, so I’m stuck with sftp through the console for now.
Iceweasel 3.0.3 with the iFox theme is the default web browser, and has
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
Java 1.0.6
Mozilla-mplayer
Google Preview
Installed as plugins.
I removed mozilla-mplayer and replaced it with the newer gecko-mediaplayer, wich can play the movie trailers on Apple.com without any problem. Mozilla-mplayer cannot.
The installation of gecko-mediaplayer is not that easy, a simple `aptitude install gecko-mediaplayer` will not do, as it is not in the repos. It can be found, however, in the unstable, or “Sid” repos of Debian. You need to get the dependancys too:
For gecko-mediaplayer_0.9.3-1_i386.deb:
gnome-mplayer_0.9.3-1_i386.deb
libdiscid0_0.1.0-1_i386.deb
libmusicbrainz3-6_3.0.2-1_i386.deb
Install those, and the movie trailers works! yay!
So far I have been very pleased with elive. More to follow in the few days, when I’ve been using this system for a longer time.
This is the development release of elive, not the stable one. the stable download requires a small payment, but the development version is free of charge.
It comes with multimedia codecs and drivers for Nvidia ( probably ATi too ) installed by default. My nvidia 6200 was detected and resolution was correct on boot.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCJ8QDfA95U&hl=en&fs=1]
My pretty much default desktop:
My Desktop
Now, go GET IT!
testdriving OpenSolaris 2008.11
Just got opensolaris set up on my desktop system, flash, drivers and all. still searching for daap support so I can listen to my music. Seems like a pretty solid system now, even tough it has it’s share of weirdnesses. I’ll completement this post later with an howto for installing drivers for the Audigy2 Zs soundcard and the Nvidia nforce ehternet driver.
edit: no I won’t, I got umm… drunk and distracted by the newly released Sabayon 4….
P.S opensolaris isn’t as solid as one might think, flash causes firefox to crash more often then it doesn’t, but when it works it worls great: full screen flash is not choppy as it is in linux land. And I didn’t get multimedia to work @ all. Another OS that needs some more time to mature.
Fedora 10 Multimedia
This post is to help set up multimedia on your freshly installed Fedora 10. What we want to do is get all of the webs multimedia to play on our system and install the necessary drivers for our graphics card. I have an old Nvidia 6200 card here, so I’ll use that one as an example.
First we need to enable the repository for RPMFusion.org as it contains everything we need.
Paste this in the terminal:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm' That command installs the RPMFusion repository for you. Now the codecs we need: yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gecko-mediaplayer mozilla-vlc xine-plugin xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld libquicktime x264 xvidcore Adobe's Flash Plugin: su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm' yum install flash-plugin Nvidia driver: yum install kmod-nvidia (not necessary as the 6200 is supported outofthebox™ it seems) All done!
Flash 10 64bit Linux Alpha
Howto install the new alpha of Adobe’s Flash 10 on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10.
Download the plugin and extract it somewhere.
Uninstall flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper using Synaptic “Mark for Complete Removal“.
Then copy the libflashplayer.so you extracted earlier to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ .
Edit: Gentoo users should copy to /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
That should be it!
64bit Flash Player 10
Adobe Systems has spun out an alpha version of its Flash Player 10 technology for 64-bit Linux software users today, to satisfy the needs of freetards everywhere.
The multinational said it has done so to underscore its “commitment to the Linux community” which is ahead of Windows and Apple Mac OS X in the 64-bit processor support game.
Previously, Firefox fans could only use the 32-bit version when running the Flash 10 plug-in because, at release last month, the software needed 32-bit emulation for it to work on Linux platforms and other operating systems.