Posts Tagged Ubuntu
PHP-GTK installation Errors on OpenSUSE
PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications.
While installing PHP-GTK under Linux, you need to have some libraries, extensions installed or it may cause the following errors.
Error: command make: not [...]
Fix Broken package – Ubuntu
Sometimes a corrupt installation package can corrupt your package management system leaving your Linux unable to install or on remove any packages (Software). Here is the message error I got from apt-get after trying to install ndas-admin for Ubuntu.
$sudo apt-get install mplayer (or any package)Reading package lists… DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information… DoneE: The [...]
ATI Radeon Mobility X700 Video card on Ubuntu
When I first installed Ubuntu Linux on my Laptop I could not get it to work properly with the ATI Radeon Mobility X700. After a lot of searching and installing loads of rubish on my computer I then gave up. I later found one, stupidly simple way of dealing with it but no one had [...]
Gnomesu – Running Applications as Root on Linux
Sometimes (just sometimes) a Linux Desktop user needs to run a program eg: Nautilus as the root user which you can easily do with the commandline $sudo nautilus. If you have the command line shell open why not do you file management throught it? Well it’s nice to have more options like a Desktop launcher [...]
Enable DVD & Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux
Posted by ITechLog in Easy Tips, Linux, Multimedia on December 4th, 2008
Full DVD support on Linux is an old issue. It has to do with the Linux distros not being shipped with the w32codecs and the libdvdcss2, for legal reasons in some countries. The users must then download and install them by themselves with no clear guidance.
Here are the simple steps for installing these libraries [...]
3G Mobille Broadband – Huawei E156G – USB Dongle on Linux
Posted by ITechLog in Connectivity, Easy Tips, Linux on December 4th, 2008
I acquired a 3G Mobille Broadband – Huawei E156G – USB Dongle and really wanted to get it going on my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop. After much looking around and trying several unsuccessfull ways of doing it found a very easy and working solution.
Basically Linux will recognize your Huawei E156G USB Dongle and you can check [...]


