How to Install Chromium on Ubuntu Linux

I think everyone should know by now that Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. What I heard about it is that its faster, safer and more stable. From what I experienced in using it, I found only a little difference between Chrome and Mozilla. I think it all depends on how good your internet connection is. But that's just my opinion.

Anywayz, instead of Chrome, there's an open source project called Chromium which codebase is the basis for Google's Chrome. So, if you're a Linux user (better be a newbie), and interested to try Chromium, you can follow these steps to install it :


- For Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive) :

(To read more about PPA, you can look it up here)

- Run this command on terminal :

 sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste these lines into the sources.list :

For Jaunty users (Ubuntu 9.04) :

        deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
        deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main


Save the file and exit.

- Add the GPGkey using this command :

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

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For karmic users (Ubuntu 9.10) :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

Use this following command :


sudo add-apt-key ppa:chromium-daily/ppa


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Now update your source list using this command :

sudo apt-get update

and the install the chromium using this command :

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser


When the installation finish, you can run chromium through Applications --> Internet --> Chromium




Cheers! :)

VLC Media Player as an Alternative Media Player for Linux

As you probably know, there's already a built in media player in Ubuntu called Movie Player. The one that will give you pop ups whenever you're trying to play a different type of Video file. It will search for the suitable plug ins and blablabla. I know it's not really nice. All we want is something that provides everything we need without interruptions whenever we want to play some different type of video file formats.

We should be thankful to the open source software community for VideoLan Client (VLC) Media Player. It started as a student project in at the École Centrale Paris, with the goal of developing a general-purpose media player that could handle audio, video and streamed content.

VLC can play most kinds of common audio and video such as MP3, OGG, WMA, AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP and etc. The new formats are always added to the list. So it's pretty up to date. Think of it like a Media Player Classic in Windows.

You can download VLC (and it is very recommended by me) from terminal by typing : sudo apt-get install vlc

For the Karmic Koala users, you might have some problems using VLC there (just like my friend). But don't worry, there are ways to fix the problems you have.

You can see the solutions in this link :

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-vlc-doesnt-play-video-after-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-upgrade.html


Cheers! :)

Torrent Downloader for Ubuntu Linux

Well, I think there are some different applications available on Linux to download torrent files. But which one's best? I think I found one application that suits my needs for this kinda stuff.

Just for sharing, I've tried using Tucan, but i think it's not 'that' good for me. The one that i think is best for me is VUZE or Azureus.

There are two ways where you can install Vuze to your Linux.

1. Use : sudo apt-get install vuze on your terminal. It will install the application directly to your PC, including the necessary packages (Java Open JDK and etc) and after that done, you can run the application from the Applications --> Internet --> Vuze. Its the easiest way, but the thing is, you'd get the pretty old version of Vuze.

2. For the newest version, you have to download the Vuze package from www.vuze.com and then extract the downloaded file into a folder that you wish to be your Vuze folder. Change to the Vuze directory where the files were extracted.
Start vuze by typing this on the terminal : ./azureus .
Normally, it will downloaded the needed java packages to your PC before it runs. But in case it doesn't go like that, you can install java manually from your terminal by using this command :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

After that, you will be able to run vuze anytime from terminal (by changing into the directory and using ./azureus command.

I suppose, you can try both of ways to see which one you'd like the best.

Cheers! :)

How to Convert PDF files to JPG on Linux Ubuntu

As usual, I was wondering about how to convert PDF files to JPG because i needed to do so. And i found a way to do it, of course, the credit always goes to uncle Google and the website I was reading of course. So, I just thought I could post it here.

Okay, it's pretty easy to convert PDF files to JPG. How? Follow these few steps :

1. Open your terminal, and type : sudo apt-get install imagemagick

2. After the installation finished, you have change your directory to the one on where the pdf/jpg files are. (use sudo su and cd to that directory)

3. Now to convert the files, type:

* convert name-of-file.jpg name-of-file.pdf (for JPG to PDF)

* convert name-of-file.pdf name-of-file.jpg (for PDF to JPG)

Easy, right?