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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Installing Adobe Reader
Thursday, December 31st, 2009I am installing Adobe Reader following these instructions. This happens in my terminal: ubuntu-64bit@ubuntu-64bit-desktop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture AdbeRdr9.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb
It seems to work.
Backing up e-mails with Evolution
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Restoring and backing up e-mails with Evolution works fine for me. As far as I know, Mozilla Thunderbird doesn’t have an implemented backup function. That is the reason why I switched from Thunderbird to Evolution.
Installing TrueCrypt (64-bit edition)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009I am downloading TrueCrypt for Ubuntu 64-bit. The installation is easy going.
Installing KDE on Ubuntu
Saturday, December 19th, 2009I followed these instructions. The reason is that I hope that the sound will work better with simon.
Removing a broken package
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I typed into the terminal sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/emacs22-common_22.2-0ubuntu6.1_all.deb after reading this information. This fixed the problem.
Simple Compizconfig settings manager
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Installing Simple Compizconfig settings manager.
Fitness software
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009I would like to have a fitness software for Ubuntu. I think that I will give PyTrainer a try. It is available on my computer via the Ubuntu Software Center.
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Today, I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. I want to install Tor. I try this tip.
Here is what happens in the terminal of my computer:
liberty@liberty-desktop:~$ sudo sh -c 'echo deb "http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
[sudo] password for liberty:
liberty@liberty-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb privoxy
I will try later whether Tor works.
