Installing the package: Important: Create the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc if it doesn’t exist. If the package is installed without this directory existing, then the package may… Read More »Artwiz – bitmap fonts package

System > Administration > Printing ‘Add a Printer’ Printer Type: Network Printer – Windows Printer (SMB) Don’t enter any login info when the dialog boxes… Read More »Accessing a printer from a Linux system in a Windows network

BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller If installed “bcm43xx-fwcutter”, blacklist it: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist add: blacklist bcm43xx then, sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common sudo… Read More »Broadcom wireless card

/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common added: DISABLED_MODULES=”” After upgrading to ubuntu7.04- On disabling the ATI driver in Restricted Driver Manager, it removed the driver: (Reading database … 161526 files… Read More »ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M

On editing the hard-disk partitions, the UUIDs of the partitions may get changed, resulting in problems mounting the partitions (on booting up the system). This… Read More »fstab messed up – solution (tune2fs)

sudo update-manager -c -d (Upgraded from 6.10(edgy) to 7.04(feisty)) Total download: 700MB+ Third party sources get disabled “Some third party entries in your soruces.list were… Read More »Upgrading Distribution – Ubuntu

Ref.: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running Add these to /etc/apt/sources.list: #Scribus – Primary repository deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian feisty main restricted deb-src http://debian.scribus.net/debian feisty main restricted #Scribus – Backup repository deb… Read More »Installing/Upgrading Scribus on Ubuntu

Add the following to ~/.bashrc export PS1=”\e[1;34m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m “ Ref.: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-change-the-color-of-my-shell-prompt-under-linux-or-unix/ http://www.expertsrt.com/tutorials/Matt/CmdPrompt.html