Win-get: Apt-get for windows!

Uh oh………..

Nah, It’s not by Macro$oft (circa Greg. S. 2005) , just another sourceforge project to make Window apps look like Linux’s.

Win-get is an automated install system and repository for win32 based apps. Written in Pasca(command line Client), also another variant in PHP(just browser based). It also performs silent install, and conveniently deletes the install file. It even uses its’ ‘wget.exe’ to download packages.

One step closer to Linux, but a million steps needed to come close to Linux.
Next step, get rid of Steve Balmer.

Compile Pidgin from Source

• Get the dependencies
• Get the source
• Configure and Install (Estimated time: 3-4 minutes of installing.)
• Congratulations and Good day
• This was only tested on Ubuntu 7.04
  

Note, compiling from the source doesn’t necessarily give you all the proper dependencies. That’s why you implement apt-get. Fortunately I found out all the required packages. You can choose which ones you’d like to install, but in my opinion, all are either required or recommended for Pidgins functionality.

 

 

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnspr-dev gettext libnss-dev

Autogen also needs these files above ^^. If you desire spell checking, add libgtkspell-dev in the command. If you’d like to install every single dependencies/package from Pidgin/Gaim. Formly. All packages can be upgraded to latest via apt-get respoitories .

 

 

sudo apt-get build-dep gaim

This installs a bunch of dev packages. Also make sure the package “build-essential is installed! The reason that it’s ‘gaim’ . Is when Ubuntu 7.04 was released, Pidgin was known as Gaim(obviously). As such, the ‘build-dep’ for gaim is used to get the deps for Pidgin 2.02.1.

Alright, now download the latest source code. Get the latest from www.pidgin.im . If you’re installing this purely from the terminal. In my case the latest stable version if 2.02(by the time of writing it’s version 2.02). Just ‘wget’ the file via sourceforge.

 

http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pidgin/pidgin-2.0.2.tar.bz2

 

Now extract it. And Change directories

 

tar xvfj pidgin-2.0.2.tar.bz2 cd pidgin-2.0.2

Now config, and install. It takes a while in between commands. Around 3-4 minutes in total.

 

./configure

 

make

 

sudo make install

That should be it. Find it in Apps>Internet Pidgin …..You should have no problems with package dependencies. Remember apt-get will not upgrade the newest Pidgin for you . So do this until Ubuntu imports Pidgin in it’s repositories, you’ll have to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon, later on. Like most will.

Have fun with Pidgin.

Dress up Firefox widgets in Ubuntu

 

 

 

 

The dilemma about Firefox under Linux is that its form widgets look a tad bit indecent.Thankfully, Osmo Salomaa created a nice set of replacement widgets that really clean up the interface, and the assemblage over at Ubuntu forums compiled up a quick script for installing/removing the widget patch. It’s a big upswing, unless you’re into the whole super-aliased, shadow-casting widgets, Windows GUI based kinda thing. Comlied by Fatsheep on Ubuntu Forums

Current Ver: 2.6 is released (July 11th 2007)

Before:

 

 

 

After:

 

 

 

 

Instllation is straight forward and simple, cd to the directory you extracted the firefox widgets to and execute install script (./install command). Now you’re exposed to the Firefox Widget Installer, make sure you are installing to the path of your Firefox directory. By default script installs to /usr/lib/firefox, as does installation location when installing firefox. I don’t see why this shouldn’t be your directory, unless you could give a good reasonnn.

 

 

 

 

Good day, and have fun with widgets mod -Larry

A Mexican replaces Bill Gates(Whitey) rank of richest man on earth;Don’t take offense because it’s true

Bill Gates, the omnipotent giant from Microsoft is not the richest man on earth. Carlos Slim, has a richness esteem(or account I should say) in US$67.8 billion ,taking Bill’s place. American Móvil company, which is the most superlative and largest mobile cell phone company in Latin America. It’s the largest and most profitable business of Slim. Gates still has a small quantity of U$59.2 Bi. And keep in mind that he gives a great portion of his money to charity, otherwise he would be substantially richer then Carlos.

Vista just not selling, Billy?

 

 

 

 

 

Wubi (Windows based installer for Ubuntu Linux Distro)

Blog Life Update: I’ve recently been REALLY lenient posting on this thing. The last time I posted was during April Fools. More or less, ~ 3 months without posting. School is out, summer is in.

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I came across this program that will install Ubuntu, It creates a virtual HDD partition ,installation into a loopmounted virtual partition, with no partitioning necessary. So you can run both Windows & Ubuntu Linux. It Works somewhat like virtualization software.The peeps at Webi say that Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), and this file “tricks” Linux to assuming that it’s a Hard disk. Although this is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows, there is speculation that it will be official in the near future. For now Wubi is an independent product,and is currently in beta, so play it fair. Wubi is not intended to be a permanent install. It should be used to determine beforehand ,if you want to permanently install Ubuntu on an actual partition, or better yet on a reversed HDisk. I believe that it doesn’t work with Vista. If you have a problem, I guess it was your fault trashing your money in the gutter for that product. You can select the different desktop environments within Wubi. Wubi is also free/open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Wubi Screenshots

Cheers! And have fun experimenting/testing with Ubuntu! -Larry

 

 

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Happy Greg?