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| Newer page: | version 21 | Last edited on Monday, May 22, 2006 1:12:58 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 19 | Last edited on Monday, January 9, 2006 1:10:22 pm | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
@@ -20,17 +20,18 @@
Take a look at the [source-o-matic|http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic]
!! Missing Functionality
-See the
UbuntuPostInstall shell script for installing things such as:
+
+http://ubuntuguide.org/ has all you need to know.
+
+At our last installfest, we wrote an
UbuntuPostInstall shell script for installing things such as:
+
* media-related codecs (win32codecs/gstreamer-ffmpeg for WMV support, [DVD] CSS)
* [Java] runtime
* Flash and Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugins
-For playing DVDs, you will also need gstreamer0.8-a52dec (from Universe) to get the audio on some discs. Also, the de-CSS library from the post-install script above seems to be for debian sarge, not ubuntu hoary - you can get an ubuntu hoary version
-from our software archive
|http://www
.wlug
.org.nz
/archive/software/ubuntu/5.04_Hoary/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
].
-Download it and then install it with the command line
-"sudo dpkg -ilibdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb"
.
+It has mostly been made out of date by
[EasyUbuntu
|http://easyubuntu
.freecontrib
.org/].
!!Skype doesn't work
Skype doesn't play nicely with the default sound setup in Ubuntu hoary as it uses the old style OSS methods and requires exclusive access to /dev/dsp. If you have a sound card that does hardware mixing things seem to be significantly nicer, but if you've stuck on something like an IBM T42 Laptop without hardware mixing you'll have problems. There are several solutions.
@@ -94,5 +95,11 @@
<verbatim>
sudo sed -i '/OnlyShowIn=/d;$a\OnlyShowIn=KDE;' \
/usr/share/applications/kde/*.desktop
+</verbatim>
+
+!! Make Ubuntu clear the screen on console logout (like Fedora Core)
+
+<verbatim>
+echo "clear" >> ~/.bash_logout
</verbatim>
