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[SOLVED] No sound in tuxguitar

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:03:30 +0000

Tuxguitar stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha. Many people seem to be having this problem after a distribution upgrade. The fix is simple. Install timidity and tuxguitar-jsa package. sudo apt-get install timidity tuxguitar-jsa After the install, run tuxguitar and play a file. You should hear the sound. If you still cannot hear it [...]Related posts:

Ubuntu 11.04 named ‘Natty Narwhal’

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:17:20 +0000

Ubuntu 11.04, which is to be released in April 2011, has been named Natty Narwhal as mentioned on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog. Check out the entire blog post here. Seems reasonable, as weird sounding as all previous names. Ubuntu, you never disappoint me! Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Digg this! Share this on [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Enable or disable modules in Apache

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:14:47 +0000

You can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these commands is really simple: To enable a module: sudo a2enmod module_name To disable a module: sudo a2dismod module_name For instance, [...]Related posts:

[Solved] vlc: missing mandatory argument `–user-agent=”VLC media player”‘

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:07:24 +0000

Yesterday after upgrading the packages VLC refused to start giving out following error message: VLC media player 1.1.1 The Luggage (revision exported) vlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `--user-agent="VLC media player"' Try `vlc --help' for more information. To solve the error, just reinstall vlc: sudo apt-get install vlc Cheers! Stumble upon something good? Share [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Use mutt with msmtp

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:12:14 +0000

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Msmtp is a smtp client which is available for Linux as well as windows. Configuring mutt to work with msmtp is fortunately quite easy. Here’s a tutorial teaching the same. Step 1: Find the executable path of msmtp: which msmtp Step [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Send emails(using mail function) from localhost in PHP through msmtp (using gmail account) on Linux

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:08:27 +0000

There’ve been lots of times when I wanted to use the mail() function on my local server. I am sure lots of you would’ve been wanting it too but most of you would’ve settled for PHPMailer or just used a web host to test the code instead. I myself had been doing the same until [...]Related posts:

[HowTo] Configure msmtp to work with gmail on linux

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:38:57 +0000

Msmtp is a small but powerful and highly customizable smtp client. You can access gmail smtp using msmtp, which is exactly what I’ll teach in this tutorial. Step by step instructions: Install msmtp and ca-certificates for use with SSL: sudo apt-get install msmtp ca-certificates We’ll create and edit the configuration file using Gedit: sudo gedit [...]Related posts:

[SOLVED] No module named gtkhtml2

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:11:27 +0000

I came across this error while trying to run BloGTK. I tried installing it from repositories but it failed: sudo apt-get install python-gtkhtml2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package python-gtkhtml2 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has [...]Related posts:

[HowTo]Extract almost any archive through terminal using a single command in linux

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:47:48 +0000

I came across this simple script on ubuntuforums which I thought was really very useful and worth sharing it on my blog. You can either make a function out of it and put it in .bashrc file or make an executable script and put it in /usr/bin/. Method 1: Open your ~/.bashrc file using any [...]Related posts:

[HOWTO] Install Opera 10.6 via PPA in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:05:41 +0000

Opera 10.6 which was released yesterday is currently one of the fastest browsers. It has beaten Chrome in javascript speed test. It also features better support for HTML5, WebM video support. You can now install it on Ubuntu via PPA. Add the PPA in your repository: sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" >> [...]Related posts: