Install GIMP 2.7 on Ubuntu
This tutorial will show you how to install GIMP 2.7 on Ubuntu Jaunty without affecting the default GIMP 2.6 install
sudo apt-get install ruby # needed by gegl git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl cd babl ./autogen.sh make sudo make install cd ../gegl ./autogen.sh sudo make install sudo apt-get install libjasper-dev # the jasper libs are required to provide JPEG2000 support in GIMP cd .. wget ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.7/gimp-2.7.0.tar.bz2 tar jxvf gimp-2.7.0.tar.bz2 cd gimp-2.7.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.7 make sudo make install
Now just create a file gimp-2.7 inside /usr/bin as follows:
#!/bin/sh PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/bin:$PATH export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.7/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/gimp-2.7/bin/gimp-2.7 "$@"
Run /usr/bin/gimp-2.7 
Chmod only files or chmod only folders
I moved the blog the a new server and i realised that all the permissions got screwed up on the process. All files and folders were having chmod 777, and that's not exactly ideal. After digging a bit on google on how to chmod only files or chmod only folders, i came up with this:
1. Recursive chmod only files within this folder:
find . -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} ;
2. Recursive chmod only folders within this folder:
find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} ;
Hope this helps!
Google Chrome for Linux and Mac with CrossOver Chromium
Two weeks ago i have posted a tutorial on how to make Google Chrome run on Linux using wine. That gave Linux users the option to test the browser without having to go to a Windows machine, but it was not perfect as it lacked HTTPS support.
CrossOver packaged for both Linux and Mac the browser and it supports HTTPS. Check it out at: http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/
Note that this package does NOT play flash files. In order to get flash pages to play you just have to go to http://www.adobe.com and install the flash player as if you were running windows.
Install Vuze on Ubuntu 64bit
I have just reinstalled Ubuntu 64bit and i wanted to download some torrent. I like the default torrent client that comes with Ubuntu, but i missed the features of Azureus so i decided to give Vuze a try. Unfortunately this did not went as smooth as i would have expected, and this is because Vuze (which is built on the Eclipse platform) comes with the 32bit version of swt.
Here is a tutorial on how to install vuze on ubuntu 64bit.
1. Prepare install folder
mkdir ~/Applications
2. Download and extract Vuze
cd
wget http://cache2.vuze.com/files/Vuze_linux.tar.bz2
tar jxvf Vuze_linux.tar.bz2
mv vuze ~/Applications
3. Download and extract the latest 64bit SWT (you can get the latest URL from theEclipse SWT Project Page)
wget http://eclipse.ialto.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/swt-3.4-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip
mkdir swt
mv swt-3.4-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip swt
unzip swt-3.4-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip
mv swt.jar ~/Applications/vuze/
4. Enjoy Vuze by starting it from terminal:
~/Applications/vuze/vuze
Install Adobe Flash Player 10 on Ubuntu 64bit
UPDATE: Native Adobe 64bit Flash Player has been released.
I have put together a small tutorial on how to install the native flash player 10 64bit plugin for linux.
Adobe recently launched Flash Player 10 Beta codenamed "Astro". Great news, as it supports a bunch of new features, but as usually nothing yet for the 64 bit users. I'm going to show you how to get flash player 10 running on Ubuntu 64bit using nspluginwrapper. Before doing anything in the terminal make sure you close Firefox else you might not get the expected result.
1. Make sure you don't have any other flash plugin installed on your system:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
1.1 To be sure we don't have any other old flash libs let's cleanup the folders where it usually resides:
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
2. Install ia32-libs and latest nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
3. Download the latest flash player from Adobe Labs and extract it:
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
4. Use nspluginwrapper to install the plugin and link it to firefox
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
EDIT: here is how to install flash player 10 on 64bit systems for Liferea and Vuze
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
5. Start Firefox and type in the address bar about:plugins and press enter. You should get a result similar to this one:
6. Go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/index.html and test the new features.
EDIT: if you are lazy by nature, you can just grab install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit, a small script i put together. Make it executable (chmox +x install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit) and run it in terminal. It will kill ask you for root password the kill any Firefox you might have running and install the flash player 10
NOTE: for the new and improved script follow this URL: http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/flash-10-rc-on-ubuntu-amd64/