Install Sun Java 6 JRE and JDK from .deb packages
So, Canonical disabled my Java PPA at the end of last week. So I’ve developed another solution for installing Java 6u30 on Ubuntu which doesn’t infringe any copyrights, licenses, terms of use or CoC’s. However, by running this script to download Java you acknowledge that you have read and accepted the terms of the Oracle [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: .deb, Debian, java, JDK, JRE, packages, Sun, Ubuntu
Sun Java 1.6.0.30 packages for Ubuntu
Sun Java 6 packages are being removed from Ubuntu in the near future for the following reasons: As of August 24th 2011, Canonical no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor License for Java”. Oracle has published an advisory about security issues in the version of [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: java, packages, sun-java6, Ubuntu
Installing Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.10
I tried Unity in Ubuntu Natty 11.04 and Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10. We’ve agree to hate each other. A few weeks ago I started using Gnome 3 and it only took me a couple of hours to adapt to it’s workflow. Gnome 3 is now my desktop environment at home and and work. I love it! [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: Gnome 3, Gnome Shell, Ubuntu, Unity
Shotwell 0.11 PPA available for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick
Like many others I wanted Shotwell 0.11 for Lucid and Maverick so I’ve created a PPA for it https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell My PPA contains Shotwell 0.11 built for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu Maverick 10.10. I created this PPA because I run Lucid at home and wanted the new version of Shotwell. Sadly, Yorba aren’t going to [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: lucid, maverick, ppa, shotwell, Ubuntu
Shotwell 0.8.1 PPA available for Ubuntu Lucid
Like many others I wanted Shotwell for Lucid so I’ve created a PPA for it https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell My PPA contains Shotwell 0.8.1 built for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS. I created the PPA because I run Lucid at home and wanted the new version of Shotwell. Sadly, Yorba aren’t going to provide a Lucid build of Shotwell [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: lucid, ppa, shotwell, Ubuntu
Bash script to retrieve Ubuntu codenames and versions
I’m working a script to automatically backport some new Debian packages to Ubuntu. I needed a way to get a list of currently supported/active Ubuntu releases by codename or version. Here is how I do it. Get a list of Ubuntu codenames wget -q http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ -O – | sed -e :a -e ‘s/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba’ | grep [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: bash, codename, release, Script, Ubuntu, version, wget
Microblogging Clients
I have recently discovered the world of microblogging, and I am hooked Over the last couple of weeks I’ve tested a few microblogging clients. On my Ubuntu workstations I started out using Twitux, then switched to Thwirl after figuring out how to get Adobe AIR 1.5 installed on Ubuntu. However, when I started using Identi.ca [...]
In: Messaging · Tagged with: Gnome, identi.ca, Linux, PocketPC, twitter, Ubuntu
Installing Adobe AIR 1.5 on Ubuntu
Recently I’ve been trying to get the new BBC iPlayer Desktop for Linux working on my Ubuntu workstation, it requires Adobe AIR 1.5 and Adobe Flash 10. Despite installing both on my Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit workstation the BBC iPlayer Desktop for Linux installer crashes Firefox everytime I try to install it, so more research required. [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: 32-bit, 64-bit, Adobe, AIR, Flash, iPlayer, Linux, Thwirl, Ubuntu
NetworkManager and Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.04
A week or so ago the NetworkManager package was changed so that nm-applet (the system tray application) was seperated into it’s own package. After I updated and installed nm-applet, I noticed that it didn’t startup anymore. I didn’t have time to investigate this until this morning and found the answer in the following forum posting… [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: Linux, Network Manager, Ubuntu
The honeymoon is over
Despite my glowing comments about Fedora a couple of weeks back, the honeymoon period is well and truely over. My biggest gripe with Fedora is even with numerous compatible repositories enabled there isn’t a suitable selection of packages available and dependency breakage is all too frequent. Although I can build my own packages from source [...]
