Installing Acrobat Reader on Feisty and Gutsy

Acrobat Reader was available in the Ubuntu repositories till Edgy. Yet from Feisty it is it is not included in the Ubuntu repositories. This should be because Acrobat Reader is not GPL licensed.

It is available in the MediaUbuntu Repositories, and below is how it can be installed

extracted from http://www.stchman.com/install_adobe.html

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Get the gpg key from Medibuntu.
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

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Add the sources.list entry for the distribution.

Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

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Update the packages
sudo apt-get update

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Install Adobe Acrobat Reader
sudo apt-get install acroread acroread-escript acroread-plugins mozilla-acroread

The following are needed if you want to use Acrobat Reader and have Firefox automatically open a tab when you click a link to a PDF:

acroread-escript
mozilla-acroread

If you want to fill out PDF forms, you'll also need

acroread-plugins.

MP4 Converter for Linux

Converting Videos to MP4 is necessary to play your favourite videos on the mobile phone or Sony PSP.

There are quite a few Tools running on windows to convert between different video file formats. On linux one might find it hard to use the command line tools to convert.

PlayStation Portable Video Converter (PSPVC) is a video converter to play videos on PSP. I managed to play the videos converted by this on a K800i.

If you have been on linux and not been able to convert the videos to mp4 to play on your mobile phones, this will be a great tool.

Home Page http://pspvc.sourceforge.net/

!!!! ENVY !!!! Graphic Card Drivers on Ubuntu

I bought a Asus EAX1550 ( PCI express 256MB ) graphics card with the intent of trying out some latest Games.

Unfortunately there were problems with the drivers in Linux. I tried out many different forums, driver sites for days without success.

Then I came across a thread in the Ubuntu Forums which Gave Details about the Great tool called ENVY by Alberto Milone.

It is an application (written in Python and PyGTK) which automates the installation of both the ATI and the Nvidia proprietary driver on Ubuntu (Dapper and Edgy). Envy downloads the driver which your graphic card model needs, installs all the compilers, etc., sets up the Xserver configuration file for you and makes sure that the driver integrates nicely with Ubuntu's restricted modules.

from http://www.albertomilone.com/projects.html

This is a great tool for me. I was spending a great deal of time trying to setup my Graphics card.

Thanks Alberto for giving us this great tool

Hope all you guys with Graphic card trouble will get the drivers up and running with ENVY.

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a really cool Application. For those who are familiar with VMWare Workstation the concept will be very much similar. The best thing is Unlike VMware, this is OpenSource, free and small in size.

As a person who had only linux Installed, this would be a great opportunity to install Pirated Copies of Windows which I'm sure is not a ethical thing to do.

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Security Related Research is a area that I am hoping to learn for my specialization and it requires that I have a Knowledge about how to Exploit a OS. Virtual Box is Providing me with the OSs I can Exploit and then reinstall back easily.

Damn Vulnarable Linux is a Distribution which allows Security Training and is required to run on a VM, VirtualBox runs DVL as below.

I booted up 2 VMs with only 758Mb of Memory and giving each VM 128MB of Memory.

Windows XP installation was running quite smoothly. The DVL Linux Distribution Boots up as a Live CD, therefore its a bit slow. The Performance of the VMs are pretty good.


The installation of VirtualBox was done very easily, just download the binary for your platform and OS, then simply install.

VirtualBox binaries

The VirtualBox binaries are available free of charge for personal and evaluation use.

• VirtualBox 1.4.0 for Windows Hosts

• VirtualBox for OS X Hosts (Beta 2; Intel Macs only)

• VirtualBox 1.4.0 for Linux Hosts:
  • Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn") i386 | AMD64
  • Ubuntu 6.10 ("Edgy Eft") i386
  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ("Dapper Drake") i386
  • Debian 4.0 ("Etch") i386 | AMD64
  • Debian 3.1 ("Sarge") i386
  • Univention Corporate Server 1.3-2 instructions
  • openSUSE 10.2 i386 | AMD64
  • Fedora 7 ("Moonshine") i386 | AMD64
  • Mandriva 2007.1 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") i386 | AMD64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ("RHEL4") i386
  • Xandros Desktop 4.1 i386
  • All distributions i386 | AMD64

The Installation of VMs is also pretty Simple. The Wizard Guided you through easily.

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