Abobe released yesterday the first beta of Flash Player 11 for Linux 64 bit.

I've put together a small script that takes care of installing it on Ubuntu:

#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com

echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:"
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo "Installing Flash Player 11"
cd ~
wget 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11-2/flashplayer11-2_p1_install_lin_64_102611.tar.gz'
tar zxvf flashplayer11-2_p1_install_lin_64_102611.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo cp -r usr/ /usr

echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

# now doing some cleaning up:
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf usr/
sudo rm -rf flashplayer11-2_p1_install_lin_64_102611.tar.gz

A very interesting application that comes bundled in this release is the "flash-player-properties" app which allows us to finally be able to set permissions to mic/camera on websites.

CLI instructions (these will take care of removing OpenOffice.org and installing LibreOffice):

Add the PPA and install LibreOffice:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

For GNOME integration (for people running default Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

or for KDE Integration (for people running Kubuntu):

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

As of Ubuntu 11.04, LibreOffice will replace by default OpenOffice.

sudo apt-get install tk8.5
sudo update-alternatives --config wish
# a list will show up and you need to type in the number that corresponds to tk8.5 (in my case was 3) then hit enter.

That's it. You can now reopen gitk and see the difference.

grep -r --line-number "string_you_search" path/where/to/look

Note the -r tells grep also to look into all subfolders recursively.

sudo mount -oloop Image.iso /mnt

Unfortunately if you want to play a game that needs the CD inside the drive, mounting using the mount tool won't make the CD available for the game (unless it didn't worked for me). So i looked around and found that CDEmu can do the job. To install on Ubuntu add the repos from ppa:cdemu/ppa them install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cdemu/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcdemu

This will install and applet which you can use with your Gnome panel, and all the other libs that it needs. In order for the applet to work you need to start the cdemud daemon, which depends on the vhba kernel module. To start those run:

sudo modprobe vhba; cdemud &

Now you can mount images using your CDEmu applet

Adobe® Flash® Player "Square" is a preview release that enables native 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems, as well as enhanced support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 beta.

I'm glad to see Adobe has is finally embracing the way it should the 64 bit Platform. This release is a milestone as far as i know, as is the first one that's released in the same time for win, mac and linux. I've put together a small tutorial on
how to install adobe flash player square on linux:

#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com

echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:"
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo "Installing Flash Player Square"
cd ~
# 64 bit
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
# 32 bit
# wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
# tar zxvf flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

# now doing some cleaning up:
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz

To check if the install did it's job, you need to check about:plugins in your address bar. It should show you this for flash player:

Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so

Version:

Shockwave Flash 10.2 d161

As usual, I've wrapped everything mentioned before into a script to easily install flash player square on Linux

If this version doesn't work out that well for you, you can still check my other tutorial on how to install native 64bit flash player on Linux
Happy browsing!

You can install it easy:

sudo apt-get install ncdu

Issuing ncdu inside the folder you want to check will open a cool ncurses interface, really easy to use

The most popular disk image formats i've had to deal with are: iso (which Ubuntu handles by default perfectly), CloneCD/IMG (used by CloneCD), CUE/BIN, MDF (created by Alcohol 120%), NRG (Nero images) and last but not least DMG (format used mainly by Apple).

Since Linux handles very well .iso files, the idea is to convert any of the image types listed into iso and then the job is easy. For all of the formats there are tools to do just that. You can install them as follows:

sudo apt-get install ccd2iso bchunk mdf2iso nrg2iso dmg2img

Example usage:

# ccd
ccd2iso /path/to/example.img /path/to/example.iso
# bin/cue
bchunk /path/to/example.bin /path/to/example.cue /path/to/example.iso
# mdf
mdf2iso /path/to/example.mdf /path/to/example.iso
# nrg
nrg2iso /path/to/example.nrg /path/to/example.iso
# dmg
dmg2img filename.dmg

Some of those formats can be also mounted using the CLI:

# ccd/img
sudo mount -o loop example.img /media/example
# nrg
sudo mount -o loop,offset=307200 /path/to/example.nrg /media/example
# dmg
dmg2img /path/to/example.dmg /path/to/example.img
sudo modprobe hfsplus
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o loop example.img /media/example

sudo apt-get install pacpl

After install, go to the folder that contains your .wma files and run:

pacpl -t mp3 *.wma

So we decided to install Zend Server CE as it has more or less the same settings over different platforms. I've had some bad experiences installing ZSCE on a system that already had apache installed via apt, but after a clear install of Karmic, ZF was running like a charm. The install process described in the online documentation works great.

After install is done, make sure to symlink php, pecl, pear and phpize so you can access them system wide:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/zendctl.sh /usr/sbin/zendctl
sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/pear /usr/sbin/pear
sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/pecl /usr/sbin/pecl
sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/php /usr/sbin/php
sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/bin/phpize /usr/sbin/phpize

At this point you should be able to run php -i in terminal and the phpinfo will be displayed.

Next step is to install xdebug via pecl by running:

sudo pecl install xdebug

If all went well you should have the xdebug library located at /usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/xdebug.so . If you don't have it there, then something went wrong and you should NOT continue reading. This issue must be sorted first.

Next you need to comment out the 1st line of /usr/local/zend/etc/conf.d/debugger.ini so it looks like this:

#open editor
gksu gedit /usr/local/zend/etc/conf.d/debugger.ini

# this is how the 1st two lines should look afterwards
; register the extension to be loaded by Zend Extension Manager
;zend_extension_manager.dir.debugger=/usr/local/zend/lib/debugger

Xdebug needs to be loaded before Zend Extension Manager, that's why you need to add the following line just on top of the /usr/local/zend/etc/ext.d/extension_manager.ini

#open the editor
gksu gedit /usr/local/zend/etc/ext.d/extension_manager.ini

#add this line on 1st line:
zend_extension=/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/xdebug.so

#save the file

Restart zend server by running:

sudo /etc/init.d/zend-server restart

You can check if xdebug is working like so:

php -i |grep xdebug

The output should be something similar to this:

xdebug
xdebug support => enabled
xdebug.auto_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.collect_includes => On => On
xdebug.collect_params => 0 => 0
xdebug.collect_return => Off => Off
xdebug.collect_vars => Off => Off
xdebug.default_enable => On => On
xdebug.dump.COOKIE => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.ENV => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.FILES => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.GET => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.POST => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.REQUEST => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.SERVER => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.SESSION => no value => no value
xdebug.dump_globals => On => On
xdebug.dump_once => On => On
xdebug.dump_undefined => Off => Off
xdebug.extended_info => On => On
xdebug.idekey => mimir => no value
xdebug.manual_url => http://www.php.net => http://www.php.net
xdebug.max_nesting_level => 100 => 100
xdebug.profiler_aggregate => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_append => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_output_dir => /tmp => /tmp
xdebug.profiler_output_name => cachegrind.out.%p => cachegrind.out.%p
xdebug.remote_autostart => Off => Off
xdebug.remote_enable => Off => Off
xdebug.remote_handler => dbgp => dbgp
xdebug.remote_host => localhost => localhost
xdebug.remote_log => no value => no value
xdebug.remote_mode => req => req
xdebug.remote_port => 9000 => 9000
xdebug.show_exception_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.show_local_vars => Off => Off
xdebug.show_mem_delta => Off => Off
xdebug.trace_format => 0 => 0
xdebug.trace_options => 0 => 0
xdebug.trace_output_dir => /tmp => /tmp
xdebug.trace_output_name => trace.%c => trace.%c
xdebug.var_display_max_children => 128 => 128
xdebug.var_display_max_data => 512 => 512
xdebug.var_display_max_depth => 3 => 3

Note the xdebug support => enabled on line 2.

Hope that helps