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Portable Ubuntu

Didn't know about PUbuntu, i.e., Portable Ubuntu. Found it thru an article, downloaded Portable_Ubuntu.exe fromhttp://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/. Installation is simply to double click the downloaded file. Installed on a hard disk. Worked fine! Installed on a pen drive. Kinda slow, but worked OK Here's a screen shot to show the co-existence of Windows and Ubuntu.

The top taskbar is of Ubuntu's, whereas the bottom one of Windows'. The Firefox window is of Ubuntu's, and the Internet Explorer is of Windows.

The size of the downloaded file is 438MB . 1.85GB when installed. For pendrive, I copied the folder on harddisk to a folder in pendrive and worked as it claims to be "portable". Copying in my particular pendrive took some hours.

Ubuntu server 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade

Upgrading Ubuntu server 8.04 to 8.10 by following this.

Here's a memo.

$sudo su
$apt-get update
$apt-get install update-manager-core
$vi /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
  [edit: change Prompt=lts to Prompt=normal]
$do-release-upgrade

Setting-up Medibuntu repository

Had a problem to set up the repository for Medibuntu, but following the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu, i.e.,

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

That worked. Thanks

Ubuntu-ja 8.04 Desktop

Gave up on installing Ubuntu Studio on my notebook, and installed Ubuntu-ja 8.04 Desktop. Installed fine, but updating at http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy failed. Hopefully it willl be fixed soon.

Following the Ubuntu Documentation at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats,

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

for multimedia codecs. Actually, ran Accessing to http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/ still causes trouble, but others look OK... Actually, ran Application->Add/Remove, search ubuntu-restricted... Oops, got an warning dialog!

Well, changed the repository server to Main, and updating is now complete! Can run synaptic to install ubuntu-restricted-extras, too! Will see if there'll be any problems in installing it. After finishing downloading, on installing process, a diagram shows up as

At this moment, i'm not going to care for the font issues.

Well well, found a better way. Ran システム管理→日本語版セットアップ・・ヘルパー. Installed the following:

Well, well, well, got anolther dialog box saying it couldn't install the packages because of broken something

OK, ok, let me try to install them one by one...
Installing xpdf-japanese and poppler-data was successful.

Installing adobereader-jpn and adobereader-jpn-ipamonafont gave me another dialog:
Turns up it's a version problem At this moment,1.1.1+1.0.8-0ubuntu0ja1 is installed whereas the dependant package was specified as 1.1.1+1.0.4-0ubuntu0ja1. Should downgrade? Don't have time to worry about it right now. Just install it! No errors. Let it be

Couldn't find packages realplayer, jd and skype on Synaptic.

The instructions at http://gtd.studiomohawk.com/archives/218 seems useful, too. Since ubuntu-restricted-extras is already installed, instead of doing

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

only

apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg

was necessary. Right now, the network download is very very sluggish... frustrating. Anyhow, the installation is complete.

Well, well, well, well...after all of these frantic efforts, I found the Firefox browser still couldn't play wmv streams Oh, it was the stream from NHK. WMA Streams on YBC (http://www.ybc.co.jp) was playable So, is it a codec problem on NHK's case? Don't have time right now to check what codec it uses. It did play Flash movies.

Japanese Keyboard Problem in Ubuntu 8.04 Studio

Found in Ubuntu 8.04 (Studio) the /backslash/underscore key was not responding. Googled, found http://forum.ubuntulinux.jp/viewtopic.php?pid=11320 and followed the instruction as

#    Option          "XkbVariant"    "latin,"
　　Option          "XkbVariant"    "106,"

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. OK, it solved the problem. But, another problem is that
shows up, and it's still not resolved yet. Perhaps, it is caused by a bug in upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.

Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 8.04 is released Trying to upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 server to 8.04. Found this to upgrade 7.10 to 8.04. First

andromeda@andromeda:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy

shows the current version. Ran

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dis-upgrade

Assure

sudo apt-get install upgrade-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

After answering y to some questions, voilla! upgrade is complete:

andromeda@andromeda:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04"

Remedy for Scim/Firefox crash on Ubuntu Studio?

On my notebook PC running Ubuntu Studio 7.10, Firefox frequently crashes and makes Scim goof sometimes... Googled and found an advice to install scim-bridge-client-gtk. Did. Will see if it gets any better.

Realplayer on Ubuntu Gutsy

Realplayer is not available on the repositories for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. Alternatively, do the following:

wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/r/realplay/realplayer_10.0.9-0.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i realplayer_10.0.9-0.1_i386.deb

Thanks for keith65 giving the tip.
OK, it worked for downloading and playing songs at Prairie Home Companion, but didn't for playing the news stream at NHK I can play the wmv streaming at NHK News, without sound, on Ubuntu... Wish I had a chance to say to NHK, hey use a freely available, open codecs on streaming as a publicly funded organization