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Removed programs, including evolution

So, there’s a lot that comes with Ubuntu that I don’t use. I decided to be adventurous and remove things. First, I used the add/remove applications feature. With this I got rid of the sticky notes application and some other minor things. Then I moved on to the big ones. I just removed evolution and associated packages with this command:

> sudo apt-get remove evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-webcal

Then I removed pidgin:

>  sudo apt-get remove pidgin pidgin-data pidgin-otr

Hopefully nothing will break.

installed xine

I like to use the xine-ui to watch DVDs. So I reinstalled it last night with:

> sudo apt-get install xine-ui

Unfortunately, it’s not working well. I’m not sure if it’s the DVD that I have or if it’s xine, but in any event that DVD kept freezing. I’ll try another DVD later and see if the problem is the same.

Katapult

Installed Katapult. I still need to figure out how to configure it.

Installing VMware server on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron)

I decided to try this out. I followed directions from the bauer-power blog.

Installed Ruby on Rails

Since I upgraded to Hardy Heron, I had to reinstall Ruby on Rails. I followed this howto. The code lines are:

# to make sure system is updated
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

# get ready to build some software
> sudo apt-get install build-essential

# install all the stuff you need (like MySQL, ruby, rails, etc.)
> sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc mysql-server libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev
irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15off
libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 mysql-client-5.0
mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 irb libopenssl-ruby
libopenssl-ruby1.8 psmisc

# get the ruby gems
> wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/35283/rubygems-1.1.1.tgz
> tar xvzf  rubygems-1.1.1.tgz
> cd rubygems-1.1.1
> sudo ruby setup.rb

# make symbolic links
> sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem
> sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby
> sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc
> sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri

# install rails
> sudo gem install rails

Renamed external hard drive

I wanted to rename an external hard drive, so I installed mtools:

> sudo apt-get install mtools

Re-install ms fonts

I forgot about the fonts. I needed to reinstall MS fonts. Here’s how:

> sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

> sudo fc-cache

Thanks to Ambuj for the instructions.

Reverted to FF2

The upgrade to Hardy gives you FF3 beta. I like it, but many of my add-ons didn’t worked. So, I purged FF3:

> sudo apt-get purge firefox

Of course, this doesn’t really purge firefox. I had to delete my profile:

> cd /home/me/

> sudo rm -r ./.mozilla

The I installed FF2:

> sudo apt-get intstall firefox-2

Now everything works except my colorzilla add-on. My first attempt to fix colorzilla was to add some libraries:

> apt-get install libxul-dev libstdc++5 gcc-4.1 libstdc++6

This didn’t work for me, so I’m off to find another solution.

Installed Kate and Keepassx

Used package manager to install Kate and Keepassx