The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) - Page 4

10 Opera

Open a browser and go to http://www.opera.com/browser/download/; select Ubuntu as the distribution and then Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx, 9.10 Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and click the Download Opera button:

A download dialogue should come up. Select Open with GDebi Package Installer (default):

A Package Installer window comes up. Click the Install Package button to install Opera:

Type in your password:

Opera is now being installed. Afterwards, you can close the Package Installer window:

11 Skype

Go to http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/ and select the right Ubuntu .deb package for your architecture (Ubuntu 8.10+ 32-bit or Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit):

A download dialogue will come up. Click Save File to download the package to your hard drive:

After the download has finished, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and go to the directory where the package has been saved (the default location is the Downloads folder in your home directory, i.e. ~/Downloads):

cd ~/Downloads

The package can then be installed as follows:

sudo gdebi skype-ubuntu*

Afterwards, you can delete the .deb package:

rm -f skype-ubuntu*

12 Google Picasa

Go to http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30 and select the right .deb package for your architecture (i386 or amd64):

A download dialogue will come up. Click Save File to download the package to your hard drive:

After the download has finished, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and go to the directory where the package has been saved (the default location is the Downloads folder in your home directory, i.e. ~/Downloads):

cd ~/Downloads

The package can then be installed as follows:

sudo gdebi picasa_3.0-current_*

Afterwards, you can delete the .deb package:

rm -f picasa_3.0-current_*

Unfortunately, the Picasa launcher isn't activated automatically, therefore we have to do this. Right-click Applications and select Edit Menus:

In the Menu Editor, go to Applications > Graphics in the left window, and then check the Picasa checkbox in the main window. Click Close afterwards:

13 Inventory (III)

We have now all wanted applications installed:

Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] F-Spot
[x] Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[x] FileZilla
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[x] aMule
[x] Transmission BitTorrent Client
[x] Vuze
[x] Empathy IM Client
[x] Skype
[x] Google Earth
[x] Xchat 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] RealPlayer
[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

14 Links

• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/