Installing Internet Explorer On Ubuntu

I.E. is something which you really can't do without. You need to test your presentation code on it whether you like it or not :) .

So, here are some steps which helped me get the job done. Hope it helps you as well.

1) Install wine. 
Open a terminal by Applications > Accessories > Terminal
or Alt + F2 , then type gnome-terminal, press enter.
2) Type sudo apt-get install wine
3) [sudo] password for nikhil: my-password-here
4) Next, open winetricks by (Applications->wine->Winetricks)
5) Choose the already selected option, which says "Select the default wine prefix", and press OK button.
6) Choose the option, "Install a Windows DLL or component" and click OK.
7) Now you can choose a whole host of things including I.E. 6,7,8 and others. Just pick any one and install.
8) To test, go to Applications -> wine -> Browse C: Drive -> Program Files -> Internet Explorer -> Run "iexplore.exe" with "wine"
 9) Congratulations !!!! You are a proud owner of I.E. on Ubuntu.

Hope it helps.
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Setting up public keys in Ubuntu

1) Check for SSH keys
     cd ~/.ssh
   If there is already an SSH directory you'll want to back the old one
   up and remove it: 
2) Backup and remove existing SSH keys
     ls
    mkdir key_backup

    cp id_rsa* key_backup
3) rm id_rsa*
4) Generate a new SSH key
    ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"
5) Add your SSH key to GitHub

6) Test everything out
7) ssh -T git@github.com
    
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Installing git on Ubuntu

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."

So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)
 
Lets get started:

1) sudo apt-get install git git-core
2) Provide the sudo password.
3) Test it, just type git
4) Done. Congratulations !! 

Installing Idea In Ubuntu

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."

So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)

This is my sixth on the to-do list:

1) Go to the website here .
2) Download your edition Linux remenber :).
3) Open a terminal by Applications > Accessories > Terminal
or Alt + F2 , then type gnome-terminal, press enter.
4) Move the file from Downloads to ~/softwares.
5) Untar the file tar -xvmf ideaIU-11.1.3.tar.gz
6) Make a alias in .bashrc file.

alias idea11=~/softwares/idea-IU-117.798/bin/./idea.sh

7) Test it, type on a new terminal idea

idea11
8) Congratulations !!!! Happy Coding..

Installing GRAILS on Ubuntu 11.04

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."

So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)

This is the fifth thing on my to-do list, so lets get started.

1) Download the appropriate zip folder from here .
2) Open a terminal by Applications > Accessories > Terminal
or Alt + F2 , then type gnome-terminal, press enter. 
3) Go to Downloads folder by cd ~/Downloads, unzip grails distribution, mine was 1.3.4 so, I did unzip grails-1.3.4
4) cp -r grails-1.3.4 ~/softwares/
5) Make a new variable in .bashrc file
6) GRAILS_HOME=~/softwares/grails-1.3.4
    export GRAILS_HOME
    PATH=$PATH:$GRAILS_HOME/bin
    export PATH
7) Test it
     grails
8) Congratulations !!

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Installing Groovy on Ubuntu 11.04

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."

So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)

This is the fourth thing in my list.

1) Go to groovy wesite here.
2) Download the zip and the documentation as well (it does help).
3) Open a terminal by Applications > Accessories > Terminal
or Alt + F2 , then type gnome-terminal, press enter.
4) Unzip the folder, move it to some other location, I keep it in ~/softwares folder.
5) Add a new variable in .bashrc file
GROOVY_HOME=/home/nikhil/softwares/groovy-1.8.7
export GROOVY_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$GROOVY_HOME/bin
export PATH
6) Test it on a console, don't forget to open another terminal and type
     groovyConsole
7) Happy Testing Groovy Code.

Thanks . Keep Blogging !!!!

Installing JAVA 1.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."

So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)

This is the third thing on my to-do list. Please follow the following steps:

1) Open a terminal by Applications > Accessories > Terminal or Alt + F2 , then type gnome-terminal, press enter.
2) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
[sudo] password for nikhil: my-password-here
3) sudo apt-get update
4) Then, install java jre:
 sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
5) Install Jdk by the command:
 sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

6) sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
7) Now, setting the JAVA_HOME variable in .bashrc file 

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun (Don't give spaces between = and /usr)
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export PATH

8) Test it by javac -version
javac 1.6.0_26
9) Congratulations !!!

Install VIM editor on Ubuntu 11.04

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."
So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)

Well, this is the second thing in my todo list. I really like the editor, too powerful and so light weight.

Just follow the steps:

1) Open a terminal by Applications > Accessories > Terminal
or Alt + F2 , then type gnome-terminal, press enter.
2) Type sudo apt-get install vim
3) [sudo] password for nikhil: my-password-here
4) Say 'y' to download the required packages.
5) If you get :
Setting up vim-runtime (2:7.3.035+hg~8fdc12103333-1ubuntu7) ...
Processing /usr/share/vim/addons/doc
Setting up vim (2:7.3.035+hg~8fdc12103333-1ubuntu7) ..

Congratulations !!
6) Test it with vim myfile
7) Escape out of it by : q
8) Search for a pattern /pattern

Thanks for reading. Keep Blooging

Install Skype In Ubuntu 11.04

Install Sype In Ubuntu 11.04

Well I had to re-install my computer, I lost all my data, I was so disappointed but then I thought what rifiki said in the Lion King "The past does hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or LEARN from it."

So, I thought I will install some bare minimum things I need in daily development and share all with you. Maybe some one gets some help and I feel happy :)

This is the first thing I would like to install, more to come .

1) Go to the skype website here.
2) Click on Get Skype and choose Linux.
3) Hovering on Download Now and select Ubuntu Distribution, Ubuntu 10.04 Skype will also work for 11.04 :)
4) New skype version 4.0 gets downloaded usually in Downloads folder.
5) Copy that to any convenient folder I have softwares folder under my home folder, I copy it there.
6) Open the terminal Application > Accessories > Terminal.
7) Go to the folder where you have the .deb file for me the file name is skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb . For me the rest of the steps were :
8) cd softwares
9) chmod +x skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb (This gives executable rights to the file).
10) sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb
11) Provide your password [sudo] password for nikhil: my-password
12) Press enter.
13) If successful, go to Step 21
14) If you got something like
 Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
15) sudo apt-get install -f
16) The following comes
 Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  appmenu-qt libaudio2 libdbusmenu-qt2 libmng1 libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4
17) As you can see the -f option tries to correct the unmet dependencies you encountered at Step 14, press 'y' to install the dependencies.
18) If you get the following :
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Happy News :)
19) Now, try again sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb
20) If you get the following :
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Congratulations !!!!!
21) Go to Applications > Internet > Skype > Agree the terms and enjoy.


* Please do not follow the procedure for ubuntu 11.10, if you already have then
  you may be getting an error similar to below ..

 dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.

 This is really bad but there is an alternative to fix this at here.


Thanks for reading.

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