Hardy Party held in Tehran, Iran

Hi All,

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release party held in Tehran, Iran.

From Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Release Party

Ubuntu-ir Digest, Vol 8, Issue 3:

Hi all,

Yesterday the Iranian Team had a great hardy party held in Tehran. Although
it was the uni. exams time/date more than 50 attended the party and made a
great day for the Team.

We’ve had 5 presentation: Ubutnu Installation, Kubuntu 3.5 Tour, KDE 4
features and Tour, Desktop Effects in Ubuntu, Ubuntu Overview and Hardy
Tour, Iranian Team report and future plan.
We had also K/ED/Ubuntu CD, DVD, sticker, MUGs distribution.

I hope we can plan for an Install Fest in near future, since we really need
more face to face talk and free chatting.

And I would like to thank all contributers, all talkers, and Farhang Saraye
Rasane for the conference room. You guys all rock and did a great job,
THANKS A LOT

Shots:
http://picasaweb.google.com/saeid.zebardast/Ubuntu804HardyHeronReleaseParty
The whole story and Presentations:
http://wiki.ubuntu-ir.org/Meetings/13870302

Bests,
Mehdi Hassanpour

Good luck

Nested X11 environment session

Hi

Instead of using a full-blown new virtual X for developing software you can use Xephyr to embed your KDE 4 session into your working KDE 3 or other X11 environment.

If you want to get a minimal KDE session up and running, just launch Xephyr (available in Kubuntu as xserver-xephyr; Gentoo users compile x11-base/xorg-server with USE=”kdrive”):

Xephyr :1 -extension GLX &

You can now launch KDE:

export DISPLAY=:1
/path/to/kde4/bin/startkde &

For other X11 environment just change /path/to/kde4 like:

/usr/bin/startx &

or

/usr/bin/startkde &

or

/usr/bin/startxfce&

You can use “locate” command to find paths like:

locate startkde

Appendix
• Happy Nowruz 1387 (Iranian new year holiday)

Good Luck

KDE history in screenshots

Hi

I gathering some screenshots of KDE from KDE 1 to KDE 4. You can see more screenshots in KDE official site.

KDE 1

KDE 2

KDE 3

What’s dpkg-reconfigure

Reconfigure an already installed package like gdm.

dpkg-reconfigure package_name

For example you can reconfigure X Server:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Issue 9 at Full Circle Magazine

Hi

Issue 9 at Full Circle Magazine is out!

Contents

• OpenGEU - A step-by-step install from OpenGEU creator Luca De Marini.
• How-tos: Directory Server, Ubuntu on an iBook, Installing OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe), and part one of the new “Create Your Own Server” series.
• The new “Create Your Own Server” series (mentioned above).
• Review of the KDE 4.0 release
• Letters, the Q&A, My Desktop, the Ubuntu Women column, the Top 5, and much, much more!

• Download English version

Good Luck

Webmin, Installing on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)

Hi
I wrote post about Webmin in ITPencil. My Persian friend like it. I decide to write post about Webmin and how to installing it on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10).
It’s very good for newbie.

from webmin.com:

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

Installing Webmin On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10)
Webmin has some dependency package.
Install dependencies:

sudo aptitude install bash perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl \
libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

After install dependencies, you can download and install Webmin. Last version of Webmin is 1.390.
Download Webmin:

sudo wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.390_all.deb

Install Webmin:

sudo dpkg -i webmin*.deb

Log in and use it:
Copy this URL into your web browser: https://localhost:10000

Linux and UNIX bash shell aliases

Hi

Commonly used for a long strings that are frequently used. Alias allows you to have a small more familiar command or name to execute a long string.

Set an alias
Syntax
alias [name[='command']

name	Specifies the alias name.
command	Specifies the command the name should be an alias for.
-a	Removes all alias definitions from the current shell execution environment.
-t	Sets and lists tracked aliases.
-x	Sets or prints exported aliases. An exported alias is defined for scripts invoked by name.
-p	Prints the list of aliases.

Examples
alias command with no arguments or with the -p option prints the list of aliases:

$ alias
alias ff='firefox'
alias l='ls -CF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias sx='startx'

Sets clr to type clear

$ alias clr='clear'

Remove an alias
Syntax
unalias [name]

name	Specifies the alias name.
-a	Removes all alias definitions

Clear all Linux / UNIX bash shell aliases

$ unalias -a

Note
When the computer is rebooted all alias will be lost.

How to prevent it?
All alias must be added to .bashrc file located at your user folder (example: /home/saeid/.bashrc)

Example

$ gedit /home/saeid/.bashrc

paste:

alias clr='clear'

now you have to ‘compile’ your .bashrc file

$ source .bashrc

Now clr alias it’s saved.

Good luck

How to install gOS on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Hi

I installed gOS on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
It’s nice but I prefer Gnome windows desktop environment.

If you want to install gOS , from terminal do the following (ONE LINE AT A TIME HITTING ENTER AFTER EACH STEP):

• Adding gOS repositories

  echo "deb http://packages.thinkgos.com/gos/ painful main"\
   | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
  

  echo "deb-src http://packages.thinkgos.com/gos/ painful main"\
   | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
  

• In the terminal enter the command to import the public key of the repository so that the signatures could be verified as follows :

  wget -q http://www.thinkgos.com/files/gos_repo_key.asc -O-\
   | sudo apt-key add -
  

• Next update your apt cache database using the command :

  sudo apt-get update
  

• To install the necessary files which will allow you to run gOS on Ubuntu, run the following apt-get command :

  sudo apt-get install greenos-desktop
  

• If you do not have enlightenment (e17) window manager (WM), then apt-get will have to download and install that too which could hike your download size by around 35 MB.

Once installed, you can select gOS/Enlightenment from sessions option in your login screen.

Good Luck

Root Terminal in Ubuntu

Hi
Ubuntu has the root account disabled.
You use sudo to run commands as root. if you need root access for some work:

• To start a root shell, but keep the current shell’s environment, use:

  sudo -s

• To start a root shell (i.e. a command window where you can run root commands), starting root’s environment and login scripts, use:

  sudo -i

There is also a root terminal that is in the Applications menu. You have to right-click to edit the menu’s and add a check to the root terminal in System Tools items.

Don’t forget to type ‘exit’ (or press Ctrl+D) to switch back to your normal user when you are done.

• More information about sudo in Ubuntu wiki

Download a website to a local location

Hi
Linux users:
for download a website to a local location in Linux, you can use wget command with a some parameter.
It’s very simple:

wget URL -k -c -r -p