Linux Solutions

Welcome to the tutorial guide. The tutorial guide will provide a user with guidance and instructions on how to replace Windows with Kubuntu 9.04 by setting up a Kubuntu 9.04 desktop. The guide will cover installation of the Flash player, true type fonts, inventory, etc.

Let’s start with the flash player
If you would like to confirm if flash player has been installled correctly, please open Firefox and type about:plugins in the address bar. Firefox will then list all installed plugins, and it should list the Flash Playeramong them

If you would like to chck if the TrueType fonts have been installed correctly, you need to open a word processor like OpenOffice. You will be able to find the new Windows fonts there:
The inventory should look like:
Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] F-Spot
[ ] Picasa
Internet:
[x] Firefox
[ ] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[x] FileZilla
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[x] aMule
[x] KTorrent
[x] Azureus/Vuze
[x] Kopete
[x] Skype
[x] Google Earth
[x] Quassel IRC
Office:
[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[x] Adobe Reader
[x] GnuCash
[x] Scribus
Sound & Video:
[x] Amarok
[x] Audacity
[x] Banshee
[x] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[x] gtkPod
[x] XMMS
[x] dvd::rip
[x] Kino
[x] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[x] VLC Media Player
[x] Helix Player
[x] Totem
[x] Xine
[x] Brasero
[x] K3B
[x] Multimedia-Codecs
Programming:
[x] KompoZer
[x] Bluefish
[x] Quanta Plus
Other:
[x] VirtualBox
[x] TrueType fonts
[x] Java
[x] Read/Write support for NTFS partitions

For opera, please open a browser and go to http://www.opera.com/browser/download/; select Ubuntu as the distribution and then Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and click on the Download Opera button:

- You will note that a download dialogue box appears automatically
- Please select Open with and
- then select Browse… from the drop-down menu
- Select /usr/bin/gdebi-kde from the Choose Helper Application window:
- You should be able to see Open with gdebi-kde in the Firefox download dialogue,
- Please select that option and click on OK
- A Package Installer window pop up.
- Please click on the Install Package button to install Opera
- You need to type in your password:

Opera will be fully installed now. You can now cose the Package Installer window

If you would like to install Google Picasa, then please open Firefox and then download most appropriate deb package for the architecture (i386 or amd64):

Once the download is complete
- open the terminal
- and go to the location where you’ve saved the downloaded file (e.g. on your desktop):
cd ~/Desktop
- Picasa can be installed by running following command
sudo dpkg -i picasa_3.0-current
- You can delete the package afterwards to clean up the system by running following command:
rm -f picasa_3.0-current.

If you had followed the guidance and instructions as provided in this tutorial guide then you would have successfully installed the Flash player, True Type Fonts, Opera and Google Picasa.