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Free Shooter Game in Linux – Xonotic 0.5

sahab — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:45:29 +0000

Xonotic is a free (GPL), fast-paced first-person shooter that works on Linux, Windows and OS X. The project is geared towards providing addictive arena shooter gameplay which is all spawned and driven by the community itself. Xonotic is a direct successor of the Nexuiz project with years of development between them, and it aims to become the best possible open-source FPS (first-person-shooter) of its kind.

This shooter games works fine in Ubuntu latest releases. Click the link for Ubuntu Linux Game list.

The sample game play video is given here

IBM sametime installation in Linux

sahab — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:34:32 +0000

IBM released sametime version 8.5.1 for Linux based installer. For downloading the software you need to registered and get the download.

Click here for download the IBM sametime version 8.5.1.

After downloading the package. Run the below command in terminal.

sahab-laptop@ubuntulinux:~/Downloads$ unzip ST851-Lin-Client.zip
Archive: ST851-Lin-Client.zip
inflating: sametime-connect-8.5.1-1.i586.rpm
inflating: sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb
sahab-laptop@ubuntulinux:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg –install sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package sametime-connect.
(Reading database … 168269 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sametime-connect (from sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb) …
Setting up sametime-connect (8.5.1-1) …

The video tutorial is given below for the same.

ubuntu 11.10 installation step by step

sahab — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:26:13 +0000

I have installed ubuntu 11.10 this month after verifying various comments about the OS version stability.

I have already installed ubuntu 11.04 in my notebook. So in this article I am describing method of taking the backup old installation files and doing the fresh install and restoring it.

After boot from live cd, open the terminal and type

#sudo bash

For root login.The type

#mount

command for check the device details

As per the second screen shot you can easily understand that my older installation is on /dev/sda6 and remainig are windows partition.

ubuntu 11.10 install copying the olde installer file

Then I have created the folder called test and mounted the windows partition on it.

After that I have created folder ‘test1″ for mount the Linux partition on it, Please refer the above screen shot. Then copy the /home/sahab into the windows mounted directory test.

For the remaining steps please refer the below video file

Blender 3D program setup in Ubuntu 11.10

sahab — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:19:09 +0000

Apart from being a great 3D modeller and one of the best animation programs, Blender is also a great composting program.

Blender is professional Open Source 3D modelling suit that’s runs in Ubuntu (which also available for windows). The latest version of blender is 2.60a.

Blender 2.60 Features
Blender 2.60 come with numerous changes since its version 2.59, here some of feature you can find in Blender 2.60 taken from its official website ”

Blender 2.60 allow us to place speaker objects in the scene, make an animation and mix down to an audio file.
Blender 2.60 Includes several changes to the graph editor, dopesheet editor, NLA editor, curves, drivers, constraints, and posing.
Vertex group modifiers has been added. There are three modifiers can be chosen : one to edit existing vertex groups, one to mix groups together, and another to generate vertex groups based on proximity to other objects
Blender 2.60 now support non-English language (eg : Chinese

Installation steps

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install blender

Ubuntu 11.10 Wireless issue

sahab — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:16:54 +0000

I have found a problem when upgrading to ubuntu 11.10 regarding the network manager

After upgrading the wireless connection didn’t work I thought it was a problem related to the wlan driver.

Finally I have followed below steps for resolving the issue

Open the terminal

Alt+F2 type gnome-terminal

then run the below command

$sudo apt-get remove –purge network-manager

uninstalled the networkmanager

$sudo apt-get install wicd

Installed the wicd for fixing the issue.

ubuntu linux 11.10 Download

sahab — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:12:53 +0000

Welcome to Oneiric Ocelot a.k.a Ubuntu 11.10

Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you’ll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

Download Ubuntu 11.10

Linux basics PPT document

sahab — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:20:29 +0000

This is presentation I have taken in my home town,colachel for giving basic awareness about Linux. Total 20 members attended the seminar.

Album url is given below.

https://picasaweb.google.com/sahabcse/TechSeminar?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCP_Y3cyG7-WmBg&feat=directlink

Please find the attached file

Linux Basics

Auto Spell Check Setup in Kile

sahab — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:04:00 +0000

Kile is a user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment. KDE is available for many architectures and operating systems such as PC, Mac, and BSD, including Linux and Microsoft Windows.

For setup the auto splell check please follow the below steps

#sudo apt-get install ispell

#vim ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

Then add the follwing lines

[KSpell]
KSpell_Client=1
KSpell_DictFromList=1
KSpell_Dictionary=american
KSpell_Encoding=0
KSpell_NoRootAffix=0
KSpell_RunTogether=0

How to change the Language & Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu

sahab — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:15:14 +0000

The following command is used to reconfigure the default language and the keyboard layout in Ubuntu.

sudo set-language-env -E – Default Language

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup – used to reconfigure the default language

For example if you need to chanage the default language to German, run the above command and choose your default language.

How to run a command without using sudo password in ubuntu

sahab — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:08:46 +0000

Today I have tried my client PC run shutdown and reboot command without being enter sudo password. The details given below

Use the command “sudo visudo” to edit the file. Now look for the line “# User alias specification” and add a list of users as follows:#

 User alias specification
User_Alias USERS = user1, user2, user3

Now look for the line “# Cmnd alias specification” and add a command list as follows:

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN_CMDS = /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/halt

Now look for the line “%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL” and add the command which will let USERS give SHUTDOWN_CMDS without a password

Code:

:%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
USERS ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN_CMDS

Now those specified users can use the commands “sudo shutdown”, “sudo halt”, and “sudo reboot” without being asked for your password.

EDIT: By the way, the reason that these commands can’t be used by normal users is that Linux was designed as a multi-user system. You don’t want one user shutting down the system while others are using it!