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OpenOffice 3.0 on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

OpenOffice.org 3   is the leading open-source office software suite  for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages  and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Best of all, OpenOffice.org 3 can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. OpenOffice.org 3 is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose - domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees - anyone you like.

Installation on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
To add repositories are going to System -> Administration -> Origins of the software -> Third-party software and add the following lines:

You can also do it from the terminal with the following commands:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following lines
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src

Now update your packages list:

    sudo aptitude update

You can now upgrade using the Upgrade Manager or via command line.

    sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Now, you should have openoffice 3.0 installed on your system.
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Free, Opensource internet TV and Video Player - Miro

Miro is an open source and free to enjoy/watch television over the Internet through various means and channels and is free of charge.



Interesting part of Miro:
Watching:
    Play Almost Anything: Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.
    Watch Fullscreen
    Resume from Where You Stopped
    Keyboard Shortcuts

Organizing:
    Video Playlists
    Move Your Library
    Thumbnail Creation
    Channel and Playlist Folders

Downloading:
    Seamless BitTorrent
    Individual Video Downloads
    Simple Disk Management   
    Pause / Resume

Subscribing to Channels: 
    Video RSS
    Auto-Download
    1-Click Subscribe Buttons
    Rename Channels
   
Searching: 
    Search Millions of Videos
    Create Search Channels
    Search Within a Channel

Sharing:
    Import / Export Your Channels
    Post to Social Sites
    Email Channels and Videos

Openness:
    Support for Mac, Windows, Linux
    Open Source
    Translations
    Global Community

Installation:
Ubuntu:

Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (depending upon your ubuntu release)

Dapper : deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu dapper/
Feisty : deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu feisty/
gutsy  : deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu gutsy/
hardy  : deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu hardy/
Intrepid: deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu intrepid/

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install miro

Fedora:
Miro is part of the standard Fedora repository system. To install, run:

    # yum install Miro

OpenSUSE 11:
OpenSUSE packages are maintained on the Packman site.
use "1-click install" to install Miro - here
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A Complete music player (with ipod support) - Exaile

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.


In addition, Exaile also includes a built-in SHOUTcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to Last.fm.

Installation: Ubuntu
Users of Ubuntu Gutsy, Hardy or Intrepid can optionally use this repository. Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list

Gutsy: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu gutsy main
Hardy: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu hardy main
Intrepid: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu intrepid main

and then type the following:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install exaile

Installing from source:
1. The following pre-requisites are required to download, compile and build in Debian/Ubuntu

   * bzr
   * debhelper (>= 5)
   * python-dev
   * python-gtk2-dev
   * buildtools
   * gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
   * python-gst0.10
   * python
   * python-gtk2
   * python-glade2
   * python-dbus
   * python-pyvorbis
   * python-mutagen
   * python-pysqlite2 | python (>= 2.5)
   * python-elementtree | python (>= 2.5)
   * gstreamer0.10-plugins-base

To do this in a simple manner, copy the text above in a temporary file, remove the version strings and execute:

     cat | xargs sudo apt-get -y install

Another way to do the same would be to:

      sudo apt-get build-dep exaile

Make sure that python-mutagen is installed otherwise exaile will have errors.

2. Check out the code from the bazaar repository

     $ bzr checkout http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~exaile-devel/exaile/main exaile

This will create a directory exaile/ and download the latest source code from /trunk

3. CD into the downloaded directory and build exaile

     cd exaile
     make

This will compile exaile

4. Install

    sudo make install

5. Start the program by running exaile

     exaile
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Blubuntu, Blue theme for Ubuntu

Blubuntu is for the people who "hate" the default "brown" theme that comes by default with Ubuntu.


First Check these:
GTK2 Theme: BlubuntuGtkTheme
Window Borders: BlubuntuMetacity
Wallpaper: BlubuntuWallpaper
GDM Theme: BlubuntuGdmTheme
Icon Set: BlubuntuIcons
Login Splash: BlubuntuLoginSplash
Usplash Theme: BlubuntuUsplash

Installation:
$ sudo aptitude install blubuntu-look (to install everything)
$ sudo aptitude install blubuntu-theme (for item)
$ sudo aptitude install blubuntu-gdm-theme (for GDM)
$ sudo aptitude install blubuntu-wallpapers (to screen)
$ sudo aptitude install blubuntu-session-splashes (for splashes)
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Fedora Wallpapers

Pretty cool  Fedora Wallpaper

 
  
  
  
More: here
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