Saturday, September 22, 2012

How to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu

How to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu:

To install them:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool *optional*

This is less glitchy and much smoother than Unity!

How to completely remove Unity from Ubuntu

How to completely remove Unity from Ubuntu:

Make sure to have another Desktop installed!

Remove the packages for Unity:

sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d-places unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-common indicator-sound indicator-power indicator-appmenu libindicator6 indicator-application evolution-indicator indicator-datetime indicator-messages libnux-1.0-0 nuxtools

Monday, September 17, 2012

How to install Subversion in Ubuntu

How to install subversion

To install the packages:

sudo apt-get install subversion

Then you can download copies of svns:

svn checkout SVN_LINK

Monday, September 10, 2012

How to install the WX Python package in Ubuntu

How to install Python WX for creating Python GUIs

WX is a cross-platform GUI kit for Python.

To install the packages:

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

Thursday, August 30, 2012

How to install Objective C on Ubuntu

How to install Objective C packages:

To install them:
sudo apt-get install gobjc gnustep gnustep-make gnustep-common

To compile files:
gcc -o hello hello.m -Wall -lobjc

Saturday, August 25, 2012

How to play .mp4 files on Ubuntu

How to play .mp4 files

Simply install these packages:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

How to disable AppleMobileDeviceService.exe on Windows

How to disable AppleMobileDeviceService.exe

To disable the service, launch services.msc

Windows + R > Type services.msc


Right click on the service and set the Start Up type to "Disable" and hit "Stop" service

Friday, August 3, 2012

How to disable IPV6 in Ubuntu

How to disabled IPV6

First, check to see if you are running IPV6(there is more than just one way to check):
ip a | grep inet
netstat -tupln

Try blacklisting: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add this to the file(have to restart):
blacklist ipv6

/etc/sysctl.conf add this to the file and then run "sudo sysctl -p":
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra = 0
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

/etc/default/grub and then run "sudo update-grub2":
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1"

Always check your work: