Music Players

Posted on January 21, 2008
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Linux has various music players and they all offer something different. So I shall try and send you down the right road to musical bliss.

Exaile: Is the music player that I just switched to….it is supposed to be the “amarok killer” although I’m not sure if that is the case. Seems to be a pretty good player overall. Add/remove programs search for Exaile…or in the terminal sudo apt-get install exaile

xmms: This player is basically winamp for linux. Looks like the old school winamp interface. Plays mp3s/oggs good. add/remove xmms or sudo apt-get install xmms

banshee: Is a good overall player. You can stream audio feeds through it. It randomly locked up on me so I am trying exaile for a bit. add/remove banshee or sudo apt-get install banshee

Flash Fix

Posted on January 20, 2008
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Per the request of a new linux user here is the fix…http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397 is the original fix.

to get flash working….

1. you need to uninstall the previous versions of flash you have installed.
a. open terminal
Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
b. Type in sudo apt-get remove –purge flashplugin-nonfree
c. Open Add/Remove Programs
Search for Flash (verify that both flash and gnash are uninstalled)
You may need to use synaptic to remove gnash…
System -> Administration -> synaptic
Then search for Synaptic

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=53648&stc=1&d=1198033466
Go to the above link, you may need to create a login for the ubuntu forums (this is a good thing the forums are worth joining)
Download and run this file. You will need to restart your browser.

A call for Twitter

Posted on January 19, 2008
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Ok, so I am on Twitter and I have only 1 friend….add me!!

Basic Command Line commands

Posted on January 19, 2008
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The command line interface is a great interface to perform functions in Ubuntu. To get to the Terminal (CLI) Click on Applications go to Accessories and then Select Terminal.

A basic command is ls this lists the files in the current directory. ls lists all yor files and color codes them. You can also type in dir and it will show you the files in the directory.

Another important command in Ubuntu is sudo this essentially gives you super-user (admin) priveleges to carry out the command. So to install a software package (banshee) you would type in:

sudo apt-get install banshee

Now you just installed banshee but it has a config file you want to edit. But, you don’t know where it was installed.  The command whereis tells you the location of “banshee”

whereis banshee

should get an output like this:

banshee: /usr/bin/banshee /usr/lib/banshee /usr/share/banshee

So from this banshee is located in /usr/bin/banshee, /usr/lib/banshee and /user/share/banshee

Remember that linux is NOT windows. The file structure is completely different. So don’t get on your pc and expect to see the “C:\” drive.

Beginnings

Posted on January 19, 2008
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Where to begin….

I am hoping to use this to document my work in Ubuntu. Focusing mainly on how-to’s. I will try to keep everything at a “beginners” level.

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