Ubuntu:Precise - http://ubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu:Preci... Ubuntu:Precise From Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Introduction On April 26, 2012, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/) was released. It is codenamed Precise Pangolin and is the successor to Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 (http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Oneiric) (Oneiric+1). Precise Pangolin is an LTS (Long Term Support) release. It will be supported with security updates for both the desktop and server versions until April 2017. Contents 1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) 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 Unity Desktop 1.4.1.2 Gnome Project 1.4.1.3 Ubuntu Screenshots and Screencasts 1.4.1.4 New Applications Resources 1.4.2 Other *buntu guides and help manuals 1 of 257 10/26/2013 04:27 PM Ubuntu:Precise - http://ubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu:Preci... 2 Installing Ubuntu 2.1 Hardware requirements 2.2 Fresh Installation 2.3 Install a classic Gnome-appearing User Interface 2.4 Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 2.5 Installing multiple OS on a single computer 2.6 Use Startup Manager to change Grub settings 2.7 Dual-Booting Mac OS X and Ubuntu 2.7.1 Installing Mac OS X after Ubuntu 2.7.2 Installing Ubuntu after Mac OS X 2.7.3 Upgrading from older versions 2.7.4 Reinstalling applications after a fresh installation 2.8 Add Extra Repositories 2.8.1 Types of Repositories 2.8.1.1 Third party repositories 2.8.1.2 PPA repositories 2.8.2 Add Repositories using Synaptic Package Manager 2.8.3 Manually add repositories 2.8.3.1 Edit the repository sources list 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 Software Center (Add/Remove Programs) 2.9.5 Manual Updates 2.9.6 Automated Updates 2.9.7 Repair broken packages 3 File Managers 3.1 Nautilus 4 Desktop Add-ons 4.1 Gnome Eye-Candy Resources 4.2 Ubuntu Wallpaper 4.3 Change Plymouth Splash Screen 4.4 Metacity 4.5 Compiz Fusion 4.5.1 Fusion Icon 4.5.2 Rotate the Compiz Cube 4.5.3 Emerald 4.6 Google Desktop 4.7 gDesklets 4.8 Dock applications 4.8.1 Avant Window Navigator 2 of 257 10/26/2013 04:27 PM Ubuntu:Precise - http://ubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu:Preci... 4.8.2 Cairo Dock 4.8.3 Gnome Do 4.8.4 wbar 4.8.4.1 wbarconf 5 Virtualization 5.1 VirtualBox 5.1.1 Proprietary versions of VirtualBox 5.2 VMWare 5.2.1 VMWare Player 5.2.2 Create an Ubuntu Appliance 5.2.3 VMWare Server 5.2.3.1 VMWare Package 5.2.4 Keyboard errors in VMware guest 5.3 KVM 5.4 Qemu (without KVM) 5.5 Xen 5.6 Virtual Machine Manager 5.7 Crossover for Linux 5.8 Wine 5.8.1 PlayOnLinux 5.8.1.1 Internet Explorer 7 5.8.2 Internet Explorer 6 & 7 5.8.3 Netflix in Wine package 5.9 Transgaming Cedega 5.10 Mono 5.10.1 Moonlight 5.11 Java 5.12 DosBox 5.13 ScummVM 5.14 Google Android 5.14.1 Android-x86 in VirtualBox 5.14.2 Android SDK emulator 5.14.3 F-Droid app repository for Android 6 Edutainment Applications 7 Games 7.1 Wing Commander Privateer 7.2 Vdrift 7.3 Action 7.3.1 UrbanTerror 7.3.2 Doom 7.3.2.1 Skulltag 7.3.2.2 PrBoom 7.4 MMORPG 7.4.1 Spring 7.4.2 Regnum Online 7.4.3 PlaneShift 7.5 Game Emulators 3 of 257 10/26/2013 04:27 PM Ubuntu:Precise - http://ubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu:Preci... 7.5.1 DosBox (DOS emulator) 7.5.2 Dolphin (Wii emulator) 7.5.3 Other Emulators 8 Internet Applications 8.1 Web Browsers 8.1.1 Mozilla Firefox 8.1.1.1 Firefox Plug-ins 8.1.1.1.1 Adblock Plus plug-in (block ads in a web page) 8.1.1.1.2 NoScript plug-in (controls scripts) 8.1.1.1.3 Bookmark Favicon Changer plug-in 8.1.1.1.4 RefreshBlocker plug-in (prevents redirects) 8.1.1.1.5 Video DownloadHelper plug-in for Firefox 8.1.1.1.6 Hide Tab Bar With One Tab plug-in 8.1.1.1.7 User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox 8.1.1.1.8 Lightbeam (website crosslink visualization) 8.1.1.1.9 Unplug Download Management 8.1.1.1.10 Lucifox (eBook reader extension) 8.1.1.1.11 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Firefox plug-in 8.1.1.1.12 Adobe Acrobat Reader for Firefox Plug-in 8.1.1.1.13 Adobe Flash Player for Firefox Plug-in 8.1.1.1.14 Gnash Plug-in (Open source Flash Player replacement) 8.1.1.1.15 VLC plug-in for Firefox 8.1.1.1.16 Gecko MediaPlayer Plug-in for Firefox 8.1.1.1.17 Kaffeine Plug-in for Firefox 8.1.1.1.18 Helix player plug-in for Firefox 8.1.1.1.19 Moonlight plugin for Firefox 8.1.1.1.20 FireFTP for Firefox 8.1.1.1.21 Firefox Widgets 8.1.1.2 Turn off browser bar drop-down list in Firefox 8.1.1.3 Turn off SSL certificate name in address bar 8.1.1.4 View Firefox cache 8.1.2 IceWeasel 8.1.3 GNUzilla IceCat 8.1.4 Opera 8.1.5 Chromium 8.1.6 Google Chrome 8.2 Download Managers 8.2.1 MultiGet 8.2.2 Usenet Clients 8.2.2.1 Pan 8.2.2.2 Kwooty 8.3 Email Clients 8.3.1 Evolution 8.3.1.1 Evolution and PGP 8.3.2 Thunderbird 8.3.2.1 Lightning calendar extension 8.3.2.2 Enigmail 4 of 257 10/26/2013 04:27 PM Ubuntu:Precise - http://ubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu:Preci... 8.3.2.3 Miniminize to System Tray 8.3.2.4 New Mail Icon for Thunderbird 8.3.3 KMail 8.4 Newsreaders 8.4.1 Akregator 8.4.2 RSSOwl 8.5 Instant Messengers 8.5.1 Empathy 8.5.2 Pidgin 8.5.3 Kopete 8.5.3.1 Kopete Styles 8.5.3.2 GoogleTalk on Kopete 8.5.4 Konversation (IRC client) 8.5.5 XChat (IRC client) 8.5.6 aMSN 8.5.7 Emesene 8.6 FTP Clients 8.6.1 Filezilla 8.7 Filesharing / P2P 8.7.1 Azureus 8.7.2 QBitTorrent 8.7.3 Transmission (BitTorrent Client) 8.7.4 Deluge 8.7.5 Bittornado (BitTorrent Client) 8.7.6 Torrentflux (P2P client and server) 8.7.7 Apollon (P2P Filesharing) 8.7.8 MLDonkey (P2P eMule/eDonkey2000) 8.7.8.1 MLDonkey GUI frontends 8.7.9 Opentracker (Torrent tracker) 9 Videoconferencing and VOIP 9.1 Ekiga 9.2 Skype 9.2.1 How to install Skype on a 64-bit system 9.2.2 Installing Skype repository 9.3 Wengophone 9.4 Gizmo5 9.5 Asterisk VOIP PBX system 9.5.1 Kiax 9.6 OpenSIPS / OpenSER (SIP server) 9.7 Telepathy 9.8 Web meetings 9.8.1 BigBlueButton 9.8.2 WebHuddle 9.8.3 TeamViewer 10 Privacy 10.1 Text obfuscation 10.1.1 FauxCrypt 5 of 257 10/26/2013 04:27 PM Ubuntu:Precise - http://ubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu:Preci... 10.2 Message and file encryption 10.2.1 PGP (Message Encryption) 10.2.1.1 Enigmail with Thunderbird 10.2.1.2 Seahorse 10.2.2 scrypt (Message Encryption) 10.2.3 bcrypt (Message Encryption) 10.3 File archival and encryption 10.3.1 Archives with Passwords 10.3.2 EncFS (File and Disk encryption) 10.3.3 ccrypt (File and Attachment Encryption) 10.3.4 TrueCrypt (File and Attachment Encryption) 10.4 Disk and Storage Encryption 10.5 Passwords and file authentication 10.5.1 Random password generator 10.5.2 Password checker and enforcement 10.5.3 MD5Sum 10.6 Web browsing 10.7 DNS Servers and Search engines 10.8 Changing a MAC address 10.9 Certificate verification 10.10 Tor (Network Privacy) 10.10.1 Vidalia (Tor interface) 10.10.2 Using Tor with Firefox and Thunderbird 10.10.3 Using Tor with other programs 10.10.4 Tails 11 Proprietary Extras 11.1 Restricted Extras 11.1.1 Java environment 11.1.2 Playing DVDs 12 Photos and Graphics 12.1 GIMP (Image Manipulator) 12.2 Dia (Diagram editor) 12.3 Kivio (Diagram editor) 12.4 Inkscape (Vector Illustrator) 12.5 Digikam (Photo Organiser) 12.6 F-spot (Photo Organiser) 12.7 Google Picasa (Photo Organiser) 12.8 Shotwell (Photo Organiser) 12.9 Tesseract (Optical Character Reader) 12.10 Cuneiform (Optical Character Reader) 12.10.1 YAGF (Cuneiform/Tesseract GUI) 12.11 Xsane (Scanning utility) 12.12 Gnome-Scan (Scanning Utility) 12.13 Gwenview (Image Manipulator) 12.14 OpenClipart (ClipArt Library) 13 Screencasts and Desktop Recording 13.1 FFMPEG with x11grab 6 of 257 10/26/2013 04:27 PM Ubuntu:Precise - 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