Making apt:// work in firefox kubuntu

I finally figured out how to make apt:// urls work in firefox kubuntu. apt:// urls allow you to install software at the click of link in your browser. The fix was actually rather simple, just run the following command in your terminal. sudo apt-get install apturl firefox-3.5-gnome-support After running the command head over to allmyapps [...]

November 9, 2009 · Angel · No Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu

Switching from Ubuntu to Kubuntu

After having installed KDE 4.3 on my ubuntu installation and really enjoying using it, I decided I wanted the full Ubuntu/KDE experience. So I decided to wipe my Ubuntu installation and install Kubuntu 9.04. It turns out the switch wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. There we’re definitely a few stumbling blocks [...]

September 9, 2009 · Angel · No Comments
Tags: , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu

NWN2 On Ubuntu

I’m running Neverwinter Nights 2 with wine on my new rig Systemax PC CPU: AMD Athlon 64×2 4400 RAM: 3 GB DDR2 800 (PC2-6400) Display: Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS I installed using the 7 Disk PC/CD version in order to get it working I had to use winetricks I installed the following with winetricks: DirectX9 [...]

September 3, 2009 · Angel · No Comments
Tags: , , , , , ,  Â· Posted in: Computers, Games, Ubuntu

Guild Wars Browser

I have several websites that I reference regularly while playing Guild War. Firefox is a great browser and I love it to death, but being on Linux, and loving to customize stuff I decided to install Epiphany and now I have it set up as my Guild wars browser. It works great as it’s light [...]

July 16, 2009 · Angel · No Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu

Checking Out Ubuntu

So I’v been hearing a lot about the Ubuntu O/S lately and wanting to check it out. However since I don’t have an extra computer laying around and I have never dualbooted Operating systems before, so I looked for a way that could check it out but not loose my current system. In my search [...]

October 29, 2007 · Angel · No Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu