How to extract .rar files in Ubuntu

Hi All,

I have tried the following steps, and it works smoothly on Ubuntu, hope this little contribution can help you in installing and setting up for extracting .rar files.

In order to extract .rar files in Ubuntu we need Unrar. Inorder to install Unrar use the following command:

sudo aptitude install unrar

Now use the following command to extract .rar files

unrar x your_file_name.rar

Extracting from your_file_name.rar

Extracting your_file_name.rar OK

All OK

All The Best

Narasimha Raju. Naidu
India

How To Install And Setup PostgreSQL for Ubuntu

Hi All,

I have tried the following steps, and it works smoothly on Ubuntu, hope this little contribution can help you in installing and setting up PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL:
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.

Installation Instructions

Download:

Download latest version of PostgreSQL from the following link for linux

http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do#linux

After downloading change the downloaded file mode using the following command

sudo chmod a+x file_name.bin

Installation

use the following command

sudo ./file_name.bin

Follow the instructions and i will lead to install sucessfully.

All The Best,

Narasimha Raju. Naidu
India

How To .bin File on Ubuntu(Linux)

Hi,

I have tried the following steps, and it works smoothly on Ubuntu.

1. open terminal
2. sudo chmod a+x name_of_the_file.bin
3. ./name_of_the_file.bin

then following instructions displayed on terminal.

All The Best,

Narasimha Raju.
India

How to get Windows Fonts with wine

Hi,

I have tried the following steps, and it works smoothly on Ubuntu, hope this little contribution can help you in better view using wine.

According to the wine docs it's just a matter of copying windows fonts into c:\windows\fonts which, as far as I can tell, is located in/usr/share/wine/fonts/.


All The Best,

Narasimha Raju.
India.

How To Install VLC Player for Ubuntu

Hi,

I have tried the following steps, and it works smoothly on Ubuntu, hope this little contribution can help you in installing VLC Player.

The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License.
It is a highly portable multimedia player that supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols.
It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.

It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Windows CE, and Solaris.

Install VLC Media player in Ubuntu


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd

This will complete the installation

If you want to open VLC You need to go to Applications—>Sound&Video—>VLC Media Player

All The Best,

Narasimha Raju.
INDIA

How To Install Real Player 11 for Ubuntu

Hi,

I have tried the following steps, and it works smoothly on Ubuntu 8.04, hope this little contribution can help you installing Real Player 11.

1) Download Realplayer RPM from the following link:

http://www.real.com/linux/?pageid=unagi.14934565.wrapper&pageregion=footer&src=realplayer_com&pcode=rn&opage=realplayer_com

2) Conver this RPM to debian package you need alien. To know how to install alien please visit:

http://dummystories.blogspot.com/2008/09/installing-rpmred-hat-package-manager.html

3) After converting RPM to debian package, right click on deb package and select "Open With GDebi Package Installer".

After finishing installation, you can enjoy Real Player features.

All The Best,

Narasimha Raju.
INDIA

How To Install Opera Web Browser in Ubuntu

Hi,

If you want to install opera Web browser you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and enter the source list and save your file.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

save and quit.

Now you need to update your source list

sudo apt-get update

Install Opera in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install opera

After finishing the installation if you want to open opera go to Applications—>Internet–> and you can see Opera Web Browser.

All The Best

Narasimha Raju.
INDIA