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Ubuntu:Maverick

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Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

Also see info about the most recent LTS version, Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS) (http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid) .

Introduction

On October 10, 2010, Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) 10.10 was released. It is codenamed Maverick Meerkat and is the successor to Lucid Lynx (10.04) (http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid) (Lucid+1). Maverick Meerkat is not an LTS (Long Term Support) release. It will be supported with security updates until April 2012.

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Contents

1 Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) 1.1 Introduction 1.2 General Notes 1.2.1 General Notes 1.3 Other versions 1.3.1 How to find out which version of Ubuntu you're using 1.3.2 How to find out which kernel you are using 1.3.3 Newer Versions of Ubuntu 1.3.4 Older Versions of Ubuntu 1.4 Other Resources 1.4.1 Ubuntu Resources 1.4.1.1 Gnome Project 1.4.1.2 Ubuntu Screenshots and Screencasts 1.4.1.3 New Applications Resources 1.4.2 Other *buntu guides and help manuals 2 Installing Ubuntu 2.1 Hardware requirements 2.2 Fresh Installation 2.3 Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 2.4 Installing multiple OS on a single computer 2.5 Use Startup Manager to change Grub settings 2.6 Dual-Booting Mac OS X and Ubuntu 2.6.1 Installing Mac OS X after Ubuntu 2.6.2 Installing Ubuntu after Mac OS X 2.7 Upgrading Jaunty or Karmic to Lucid 2.7.1 Reinstalling applications after a fresh install 2.8 Add Extra Repositories 2.8.1 Types of Repositories 2.8.1.1 Third party repositories 2.8.2 Add Repositories using Package Manager 2.8.3 Manually add repositories 2.8.4 Add repository keys 2.9 Package Installation and Updates 2.9.1 Apt and Package Basics 2.9.1.1 Installing .deb packages 2.9.1.2 Handling (Tar/GZip) and (Tar/Bzip2) archives 2.9.1.3 Installing a package from source 2.9.1.3.1 Create a .deb package from source files 2.9.2 Aptitude 2.9.3 Synaptic Package Manager 2.9.4 Ubuntu Center (Add/Remove Programs) 2.9.5 Manual Updates 2.9.6 Automated Updates 3 Desktop Add-ons 3.1 Gnome Eye-Candy Resources 3.2 Ubuntu Wallpaper 3.3 Change Plymouth Splash Screen 3.4 3.5 Compiz Fusion 3.5.1 Fusion Icon 3.5.2 Rotate the Compiz Cube 3.5.3 Emerald 3.6 3.7 gDesklets 3.8 Dock applications 3.8.1 3.8.2 Dock 3.8.3 Gnome Do 3.8.4 wbar 3.8.4.1 wbarconf 4 Virtualization 4.1 VirtualBox 4.1.1 Proprietary versions of VirtualBox 4.2 VMWare 4.2.1 VMWare Player 4.2.2 Create an Ubuntu Appliance 4.2.3 VMWare Server 4.2.3.1 VMWare Package 4.2.4 Keyboard errors in VMware guest 4.3 KVM 4.4 Qemu (without KVM) 4.5 Xen 4.6 Virtual Machine Manager 4.7 Crossover for Linux 4.8 4.8.1 PlayOnLinux 4.8.1.1 7 4.8.2 Internet Explorer 6 & 7 4.9 Transgaming Cedega 4.10 4.10.1 Moonlight 4.11 DosBox 4.12 ScummVM 5 Edutainment Applications 5.1 Google Earth 5.1.1 Troubleshooting 5.1.2 Uninstall Google Earth 5.2 FBReader (e-book reader) 5.3 Calibre (e-book reader) 6 Games 6.1 Wing Commander Privateer 6.2 Vdrift 6.3 Action 6.3.1 UrbanTerror 6.3.2 Doom 6.3.2.1 Skulltag 6.3.2.2 PrBoom 6.4 MMORPG 6.4.1 Spring 6.4.2 Regnum Online 6.4.3 PlaneShift 6.5 (Wii emulator) 7 Internet Applications 7.1 Web Browsers 7.1.1 7.1.1.1 Firefox Plug-ins 7.1.1.1.1 Adblock Plus plug-in (block ads in a web page) 7.1.1.1.2 Noscript plug-in (controls scripts) 7.1.1.1.3 User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox 7.1.1.1.4 Video DownloadHelper plug-in for Firefox 7.1.1.1.5 Unplug Download Management 7.1.1.1.6 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Firefox plug-in 7.1.1.1.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader for Firefox Plug-in 7.1.1.1.8 Player for Firefox Plug-in 7.1.1.1.9 Gnash Plug-in (Open source Flash Player replacement) 7.1.1.1.10 VLC plug-in for Firefox 7.1.1.1.11 MediaPlayer Plug-in for Firefox 7.1.1.1.12 Plug-in for Firefox 7.1.1.1.13 Helix player plug-in for Firefox 7.1.1.1.14 Moonlight plugin for Firefox 7.1.1.1.15 FireFTP for Firefox 7.1.1.1.16 Firefox Widgets 7.1.1.2 Turn off browser bar drop-down list in Firefox 7.1.2 IceCat 7.1.3 SeaMonkey 7.1.4 IceApe 7.1.5 7.1.6 7.1.7 7.2 Download Managers 7.2.1 Downloader for X 7.3 Clients 7.3.1 Evolution 7.3.1.1 Evolution and PGP 7.3.2 Thunderbird 7.3.2.1 extension 7.3.2.2 7.3.2.3 New Icon for Thunderbird 7.3.3 KMail 7.4 Newsreaders 7.4.1 Akregator 7.4.2 RSSOwl 7.5 Instant Messengers 7.5.1 7.5.2 7.5.3 7.5.3.1 Kopete Styles 7.5.3.2 GoogleTalk on Kopete 7.5.4 (IRC ) 7.5.5 aMSN 7.5.6 Emesene 7.6 FTP Clients 7.6.1 Filezilla 7.7 Filesharing / P2P 7.7.1 Transmission (BitTorrent Client) 7.7.2 KTorrent 7.7.3 Azureus 7.7.4 QTorrent 7.7.5 Apollon (P2P Filesharing) 7.7.6 MLDonkey (P2P eMule/eDonkey2000) 7.7.6.1 MLDonkey GUI frontends 8 Videoconferencing and VOIP 8.1 8.2 8.2.1 How to install Skype on a 64-bit system 8.2.2 Installing Skype repository 8.3 Wengophone 8.4 Gizmo5 8.5 Asterisk VOIP PBX system 8.5.1 Kiax 8.6 OpenSIPS / OpenSER (SIP server) 8.7 Web meetings 8.7.1 BigBlueButton 8.7.2 WebHuddle 9 Privacy 9.1 PGP (Message Encryption) 9.1.1 9.2 (Network Privacy) 9.2.1 Tor GUIs 10 Proprietary Extras 10.1 Restricted Extras 11 Photos and Graphics 11.1 GIMP (Image Manipulator) 11.2 (Diagram editor) 11.3 Kivio (Diagram editor) 11.4 Vector Illustrator 11.5 Digikam (Photo Organiser) 11.6 F-spot (Photo Organiser) 11.7 Google Picasa (Photo Organiser) 11.8 (Photo Organiser) 11.9 Tesseract (Optical Character Reader) 11.10 Cuneiform (Optical Character Reader) 11.11 Xsane (Scanning utility) 11.12 Gnome-Scan (Scanning Utility) 11.13 (Image Manipulator) 11.14 OpenClipart (ClipArt Library) 12 Screencasts and Desktop Recording 12.1 recordMyDesktop (Desktop Session Recording) 12.1.1 Using recordMyDesktop with PulseAudio 12.2 Istanbul (Desktop Session Recording) 12.3 xvidcap (Desktop Session Recording) 12.4 WebCamStudio 12.5 Wink (Presentation Editor) 12.6 Camorama (Web Cam) 12.7 Freeseer (Presentation capture) 12.8 Screencast Demos 13 Video Applications 13.1 OpenShot 13.2 (Non-linear Video Editing Suite) 13.3 (Video editor/processor) 13.4 (Non-linear Video Editing Suite) 13.5 (Non-linear Video Editing Suite for KDE) 13.6 (Non-linear Video Editing Suite) 13.7 LiVES (Video editor/processor) 13.8 OpenMovieEditor 13.9 Blender 13.10 Stopmotion (Animation) 14 Audio / Video conversion 14.1 FFMPEG video / audio conversion 14.1.1 FFMPEG GUI 14.1.2 Join video segments 14.1.2.1 Split a file into segments 14.2 Save any streaming 14.2.1 Save rtmp / flv streams 14.3 Convert Flash video audio to mp3 14.4 2ManDVD 14.5 DeVeDe 14.6 ManDVD 14.7 DVD Author 14.7.1 QDVDAuthor 14.8 Ripper X CD Ripper/Encoder 14.9 CD Ripper/Encoder 14.10 Audex CD Ripper/Encoder 14.11 Gnac (GNome Audio Converter) 14.12 SOX (encodes/decodes audio) 15 CDs and DVDs 15.1 (CD/DVD burner) 15.2 Gnomebaker (CD/DVD burner) 15.3 (CD/DVD burner) 15.4 DVD Playback Capability 15.5 K9copy (DVD Ripper) 15.6 dvd::rip 15.7 Acidrip 15.8 DVD Fab (DVD Ripper) 15.9 Handbrake 16 Players 16.1 16.2 16.2.1 Amarok themes 16.3 16.4 Music Player 16.5 Music Manager and Player 16.6 Music Player 17 Multimedia Players 17.1 MPlayer Multimedia Player 17.1.1 SMPlayer 17.1.2 Dump a video stream to disc 17.2 VLC Multimedia Player 17.2.1 VLC plugins 17.3 -UI Multimedia Player 17.4 Kaffeine Video Player 17.5 RealPlayer 11 Multimedia Player 17.6 Internet TV 17.6.1 BBC iPlayer 17.6.2 Player 17.6.3 Myth TV 17.6.4 Sopcast Internet TV 17.6.5 Zattoo 17.7 17.7.1 Last FM 17.7.2 Shoutcast Internet Radio 17.7.3 StreamTuner Stream Directory Browser 17.7.4 BBC program recording 17.8 Media Centers and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) 17.8.1 MythTV 17.8.2 Mythbuntu 17.8.3 XBMC 17.8.4 17.8.5 Elisa 17.8.6 LinuxMCE 17.9 Multimedia Servers 17.9.1 MPD Multimedia Playing Server 17.9.2 TiMidity++ MIDI Sound Server 17.9.3 uShare UPnP A/V Media Server 18 Home Automation / Home Theater / Home Security 18.1 Complete Systems 18.1.1 Linux MCE (Media Center Edition) 18.1.2 Other systems in development 18.2 Home Security 18.2.1 Zoneminder surveillance system 18.2.1.1 Myth Zoneminder 19 Office Suites 19.1 Open Office 19.1.1 Open Word 2007 Documents in Open Office 19.2 KOffice 19.3 AbiWord 19.4 PDF Files 19.4.1 Print to a PDF file 19.4.2 View a PDF document 19.4.3 Scan to a PDF file 19.4.4 PDF-Shuffler (PDF file management) 19.4.5 MaxView (PDF file management) 19.4.6 Import PDF files into a word processor 19.4.6.1 Import PDF files into OpenOffice Writer 19.4.6.2 Import PDF files into KWord 19.5 Personal Information Managers 19.5.1 Personal Information Manager 19.5.2 (Calendar) 19.5.3 BasKet Note Pads 19.5.4 Planner (Project planning & management) 19.5.5 Time Tracker 20 Groupware 20.1 Groupware Servers 20.1.1 20.1.1.1 Kolab Ubuntu package 20.1.1.2 Manual Kolab installation 20.1.2 Citadel 20.1.3 eGroupware 20.1.4 Open-Xchange 20.1.5 OpenGroupware 20.1.6 20.1.7 20.1.8 SugarCRM Server 20.1.9 SchoolTool 20.2 Groupware Clients 20.2.1 Evolution Exchange 20.2.2 Kontact Personal Information Manager 20.2.3 KDE Groupware Wizard 20.2.4 Zimbra Desktop 20.2.5 Oracle Calendar Desktop Client 20.3 Group 20.3.1 DAViCal Calendar Server 20.3.2 Darwin Calendar Server 20.3.3 WebCalendar 21 Financial Software 21.1 KMyMoney (Personal Finance Management) 21.2 GnuCash (Personal Finance Management) 21.3 Skrooge (Personal Finance Management) 21.4 Moneydance (Personal Finance Management) 21.5 SQL-Ledger (Enterprise Finance Management) 21.6 WebERP (Enterprise Finance Management) 21.7 Phreebooks (Enterprise Finance Management) 21.8 Quasar (Enterprise Finance Management) 22 Wiki software 22.1 MediaWiki 22.1.1 ReCaptcha 22.2 Twiki 22.3 Moin Moin 22.4 TiddlyWiki 23 Web Publishing 23.1 (Web content publishing) 23.1.1 Installation quirks 23.1.1.1 Exim vs. Postfix 23.2 WordPress 23.3 Joomla (Web content publishing) 23.4 Scribus (Desktop publishing) 23.5 Plone (Content Management System) 23.6 Gallery (Photo album website) 24 Distance teaching 24.1 Moodle 24.2 Claroline 24.3 Dokeos 25 Software Development 25.1 Kompozer Web Development Editor 25.2 (Web IDE) 25.3 Netbeans IDE 25.4 Web Development Editor 25.5 (Multi-user development) 25.6 IDE 25.7 Version control software 25.8 Personal repositories 25.8.1 mini-dinstall 25.8.2 Debarchiver 26 Science, Technology, and Engineering Applications 26.1 Health applications 26.1.1 VistA (Enterprise Electronic Health Record) 26.2 CAD 26.3 Mathematical solutions 26.3.1 Octave 26.3.2 Freemat 26.3.3 Maxima 26.3.4 Mathomatic 26.4 Amateur Radio applications 26.5 Amateur Electronics 26.5.1 Arduino 26.6 LaTeX 26.6.1 LyX 26.6.2 LaTeX Reference Managers 27 Miscellaneous software (not endorsed by this guide) 27.1 JBidwatcher 28 Utilities 28.1 Archiving Utilities 28.1.1 ZIP 28.1.1.1 FileRoller (Archiving GUI) 28.1.1.2 X-archiver (Archiving GUI) 28.1.2 BChunk 28.1.3 HJSplit Files Joiner/Splitter 28.1.4 Rar 28.1.5 Unrar 28.1.6 7-Zip 28.2 Hard Drive Utilities 28.2.1 KDiskFree (Hard drive properties monitor) 28.3 Clock Utilties 28.4 Screensavers 28.5 Partition Managers 28.5.1 GParted Partition Manager 29 System Backup and Recovery 29.1 Rsync 29.1.1 GRsync 29.2 Bacula 29.3 SBackup 29.4 Keep (Backup and Recovery) 29.5 Partimage (Partition backup) 29.6 cp 29.7 dd 29.8 FSArchiver (Filesystem Archiver) 30 System Rescue and Cloning Utilities 30.1 System Rescue CD 30.2 Clonezilla 30.3 Disk Imaging software 30.4 Ubuntu Customization Kit 30.5 Remastering software 30.6 Run Ubuntu LiveCD from a USB pendrive 30.6.1 Create a boot CD to allow booting from the USB drive 30.6.2 USB Creator 31 User Administration 31.1 Users and Groups 31.2 Timekpr (Parental controls) 31.3 Web content filtering 32 System Administration 32.1 Automating Tasks 32.2 Boot Menu 32.2.1 Login Menu settings 32.2.2 Automating bootup options 32.2.3 GRUB boot manager settings 32.2.3.1 Grub2 32.2.3.2 GRUB Legacy 32.2.3.2.1 Chainloading Grub2 from Grub Legacy 32.3 Default Applications 32.4 Kill a process 32.5 Enabling NUM LOCK On Startup 32.6 Working with Menus 32.7 Create an encrypted folder 32.8 Create a symlink from a file to another location 32.9 Assign a root password 32.10 Get a root prompt without using a root password 32.11 Use the File Manager as root 32.12 Manually Mount and Unmount a device 32.13 Windows Compatibility 32.13.1 Mounting NTFS Partitions (with read/write privileges) 32.13.2 Mounting FAT32 Partitions 32.14 Synchronize clock to network time server 33 Hardware 33.1 CPU and motherboard 33.1.1 Disable CPU Frequency scaling 33.1.2 libsensors 33.1.3 Sensors-applet (Motherboard monitoring) 33.2 Graphics Cards 33.2.1 Install Latest Nvidia/ATI drivers 33.2.2 Intel integrated graphics cards 33.2.2.1 Intel graphics resolution problems 33.2.2.2 Screen Keeps Flickering 33.2.3 Reconfigure xserver-xorg 33.2.3.1 xorg.conf 33.2.3.1.1 xorg.conf for nvidia 33.2.4 Installation of ATI and nVidia Graphics drivers 33.2.4.1 nVidia Driver 33.2.4.2 ATI Driver 33.3 Monitors / Displays 33.3.1 Turn off power saving 33.3.2 Configure Dual Monitors with nVidia 33.4 Hard Drives and USB Storage 33.5 Optical Drives 33.6 Printers & Scanners 33.6.1 Add a Printer 33.6.1.1 Use CUPS web interface 33.6.2 Brother printers 33.6.3 HP Printers 33.7 Sound 33.7.1 PulseAudio 33.7.1.1 HDMI with PulseAudio 33.7.2 Airport Express 33.7.2.1 Airport Express with Pulse Audio 33.7.2.2 raop-client (Airport Express streaming) 33.7.2.3 GSTransmit (Airport Express streaming) 33.7.2.4 Airfoil (Airport Express streaming) 33.8 Mice 33.8.1 Activate side-mouse-buttons in FireFox 33.9 Touchpad 33.10 Wacom Pen Tablets 33.11 Remote Controls 33.11.1 LIRC (Infrared Remote Controls) 33.12 Bluetooth 33.12.1 WiiMote 33.13 USB 33.14 Wireless Cards 33.14.1 Atheros Cards 33.14.1.1 Atheros AR242x 33.15 3G 33.15.1 he220r1 33.15.2 T-Mobile Option 225 (Web'N'Walk) Stick 33.15.3 Virgin Huawei e169 33.15.4 EVDO Cards 33.15.4.1 Sprint 33.15.4.2 Verizon 33.15.4.2.1 Tethering your PC to your Verizon cell phone 33.16 Digital Cameras 33.17 WebCams 33.17.1 EasyCam 33.17.2 iSight 33.17.3 Luvcview (USB webcam viewer) 33.18 Netbooks 33.18.1 Acer Aspire One 33.19 Palm 33.20 Mobile Devices 33.21 GPS 33.22 MP3 / Video Players 33.22.1 Sansa Fuze 33.22.2 MachSpeed Trio 34 Networking 34.1 Network Manager 34.2 Wicd Network Manager 34.3 Set a static IP address 34.3.1 Manual configuration from the command-line 34.4 Internet connection sharing (DHCP server) 34.4.1 Using a nested wireless LAN router 34.4.2 Network Interfaces Bridging 34.5 Using Dynamic IP addresses for a webserver 34.6 Filesharing 34.6.1 NFS 34.6.2 Samba File Sharing 34.6.2.1 Samba client 34.6.2.2 Samba server 34.6.2.3 Change your Workgroup 34.6.2.4 Recognizing Win98 machines 34.6.3 Integrating into Mac OS X Network 34.7 Local Area Network 34.8 Modems / Dial-up 34.8.1 Gnome PPP and wvdial 34.8.2 GPPP 35 Remote Access 35.1 SSH 35.1.1 Connect to a remote SSH server 35.1.1.1 From the command-line terminal 35.1.1.2 Port forwarding through SSH 35.1.2 PuTTY 35.1.2.1 Using keys created by Puttygen in OpenSSH 35.1.3 Connect using SSH Agent 35.1.4 Setup an SSH server 35.1.4.1 Limit authorized SSH users 35.1.4.2 OpenSSH Public Key Authentication 35.1.4.3 Connect with SSH and start an application with a single command 35.1.4.4 Automate SSH connections that require a password 35.2 VNC 35.2.1 Vino Remote Desktop VNC server 35.2.1.1 How to securely use VNC with SSH tunneling 35.2.2 X11VNC Server 35.2.2.1 Using VNC with SSH 35.2.3 VNC client 35.2.4 Terminal Server Client 35.2.5 Krdc VNC client 35.2.5.1 Using a VNC client with SSH 35.2.6 XVNC4Viewer VNC Client 35.3 FreeNX 35.3.1 FreeNX Server 35.3.2 FreeNX Client 35.4 XDMCP 35.4.1 Telnet 35.5 VPN clients 35.5.1 VPN through Network Manager 35.5.2 vpnautoconnect (vpn daemon) 35.5.3 Other VPN clients 35.5.4 VPN servers 35.5.4.1 OpenVPN 35.5.4.2 Poptop (PPTP Server) 35.5.4.3 OpenSwan 35.6 WebDAV 36 Security 36.1 Firewall 36.1.1 Firestarter 36.1.2 Guarddog 36.1.3 Uncomplicated Firewall 36.1.3.1 Gufw 36.2 Anti-virus 36.2.1 ClamAV 36.2.2 AVG