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Although you don't need to install any antivirus software on your Ubuntu machine, however out of curiosity to keep your heart and mind rest in peace, you may try out open source antivirus project ClamAV . To do that just follow the steps ClamAV can be found for Ubuntu in the apt repository. Run this command to install ClamAV: sudo apt-get install clamav If you need clamd, you may also want to run: sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon If you require support for scanning compressed RAR files you first need to enable the non-free archive, and then you can install the RAR-plugin using: sudo apt-get install libclamunrar6 After successful installation, you may try searching for it in Dash, but to your surprise there is no GUI shipped with this product, either you can run it through terminal by typing help command ( clamscan --help ) and follow the instruction's provided in the help manual (or) You may install ClamTk - A GUI provided by Ubuntu community. To install it just visit...

If you want to uninstall the installed programs using Terminal follow these steps Open the terminal using ctrl + alt + t Browse your installed programs by entering the command dpkg --list and note down the name of package you desired to uninstall                                 (or)           dpkg --list to check if the package has the same as the program name        3. a) Uninstall the package (or) program only use the command sudo apt-get remove              Eg: sudo apt-get remove yelp                          b)To uninstall the program along with its configuration files use the command sudo apt-get --purge remove             Eg: sudo apt-get --purge remove yelp

If you are a getting blank screen on your terminal in Ubuntu, also no command seems to work, then you may have the sourced the .bashrc file and added the line source .bashrc in .bashrc file.          So to solve this press ctrl + c   in terminal and you will get back to the normal terminal screen then  type gedit .bashrc and remove the line source .bashrc  in the .bashrc file

So you have done your work in web server and stopped all the services and switched of your computer, when you reboot it and start your xampp again then you may find that apache is not running and you might get like this as shown in image below To solve this first stop then go to the terminal and type pidof apache2 and you may find four to five different types of numbers for Eg: 1022,1023,1024,1026, these are the process created by apache and has not been killed,so kill it using command sudo kill -9 processno(Eg:sudo kill -9 1022) ,so kill all those process using the command shown for all the numbers. Then again type pidof apache2 to check if there are any process left,if you get again some numbers then kill it using the command shown above follow this until you don't get any numbers.Then press start,now all the services will be running and hence your web-server will be up and running. So before starting the xampp on reboot check for processes of apache and kill it then start you...

If you are thinking of developing website using popular blogging and CMS software Wordpress in Ubuntu locally in your machine then you may need to follow below steps to smoothly run your Wordpress. Prerequisites...? Get the Latest Wordpress software. How To Get The Result→ When you install xampp in /opt directory,by default you don't have any permissions of writing (or) deleting any files in that directory,so if you try to paste the wordpress directory in htdocs then it will not allow you to move. To solve this go to terminal and type chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/lampp/htdocs                                                                                                     (owner name):(groupname) Now, you got the permission to write an...

So you have installed the xampp in Ubuntu 12.10,13.04,13.10, if you haven't installed you want to go through my previous post " How to install xampp ". after installing you may want to add a menu entry (or) desktop shortcuts so that you can easily start and stop instead of doing it through terminal. Prerequisites...? You will need to install python-glade2 for the XAMPP control panel to work: Go to terminal and type  sudo apt-get install python-glade2 How To Get The Result→ Then create a file called XAMPP-Control-Panel.desktop  using text editor in  desktop (or) Home folder and put the following in it: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=XAMPP Control Panel GenericName=Control Panel Comment=XAMPP Control Panel Exec=gksudo "/opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel" Icon=/opt/lampp/htdocs/favicon.ico StartupNotify=true StartupWMClass="xampp-control-panel.py" Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Developer; and save it in y...

The Ubuntu doesn't ships with any default image editor's which provides you an option of re-sizing and rotating the images, so if you think of re-sizing images and don't want to install heavy tools like Gimp, F-spot etc, then you can install Nautilus Image Converter ( sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter ) from Ubuntu Software Center which adds two context menus in nautilus so you can right click choose " Re-size image " which presents you with the GUI to perform the necessary action.    Prerequisites...?  First Install Imagemagick through terminal (or) Ubuntu Software Center. In the terminal type ( sudo apt-get install imagemagick ).  How To Get The Result→  First log-out and log-in back to so that changes can be made to your context menu(i.e; right click menu).  Then Right click any image (or) bulk of image to re-size.

Ubuntu GNOME ships with Firefox as its default browser but under the default Adwaita theme in GNOME 3.6 Firefox doesn't looks as it should have been. There are 2 Add-ons which will revamp the look of Firefox and remove the title bar when maximized in GNOME 3.6. GNOME 3 for Firefox styles Firefox with Adwaita tab styles, widgets, buttons and hinting.The theme will work fine with Firefox 22 and up.Add the  GNOME 3  to your Firefox and make it look better. HTitle for FireFox forces it to lose it's title bar and gives more space to display your webpages. Add the HTitle to your Firefox for GNOME 3.6.

So you have Installed the Ubuntu 12.10 and now wants to add the xampp (or) lampp into it...then follow this steps Download the latest version of xampp for either 32 (or) 64 bit from the link  Download xampp Go to the terminal and log in as administrator using the commands sudo su Then before extracting the tar file navigate to directory where it has been downloaded           For eg: I downloaded it from Chrome and it saved me in a Downloads folder, so I navigated to the downloads folder first then extracting the tar file So now use this command to extract the tar file  tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.1.tar.gz -C /opt For 64bit version: Start If you downloaded the 64 bit then you need to install the 32bit libraries from repository to start the xampp, otherwise you will get this error message " XAMPP is currently only availably as 32 bit application. Please use a 32 bit compatibility library for your system." Before you install 32 bit libraries, you have ...

As I installed the Ubuntu 12.10, every thing looks fine but when I played the video in YouTube there was a problem with sound,the sound was randomly cutting out and it irritated me to watch the video,so I thought to find the solution for this and I found out after some hiccups.... Just open the terminal  and type alsamixer   Navigate to Auto-Mute Mode  and change its status to Disable  if it is Enabled .... Hurray now YouTube video works with audio with no no sound cutting problems.

First of all the Ubuntu has its own repository where you can find the all available software's by searching it through "Ubuntu Software Center" , so visit it and explore it. The Top (or) important Software's to install after installing to Ubuntu will be following (the following can be available in the repository (or) you have to download and installed it) Love your Google Chrome Browser then go the  Google Chrome  website and download the " .deb " version (which Ubuntu understand's ) of either 32 bit and 64 bit and then double click the downloaded file to install it through Ubuntu Software Center . Note:   The Google Chrome is not available in the "Ubuntu Software Center" repository although you can find Chromium browser from the same community but I suggest to you not to install that, instead go for Chrome. Go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for Adobe Flash Player   and install it through its interface (no need to worry ...

Ubuntu release has a version number that consists of the year and month number of the release. For example, the first release was Ubuntu 4.10 as it was released on 20 October 2004. Version numbers for future versions are provisional , if the release is delayed the version number changes accordingly. Ubuntu releases are also given alliterative code names, using an adjective and an animal(e.g., " Dapper Drake " and " Intrepid Ibex "). The Ubuntu 10.10 ( Maverick Meerkat ), was released on 10 October 2010 (10-10-10). The Ubuntu 11.04 ( Natty Narwhal ), was released on 28 April 2011 (28-04-11). The " Unity " was introduced as the default GUI from 11.04 version into the Ubuntu from the "classic" GUI (GNOME Panel). The Ubuntu 12.10 ( Quantal Quetzal ), was release on 18 October 2012(18-10-12), it is latest release from Ubuntu till date and it continued using " Unity " as GUI.

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software, using its own desktop environment. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu ("humanity towards others").       The Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) as name given by its developers, have amazing home page when compared with win 7, and beautiful in lining of silver interface and numerous inbound (or) hidden applications one would love to have it.       I installed on the my Com and loved the interface and their inbuilt functionality and dozens of apps to look out for. Ubuntu Home Screen With Unity The  beautiful home page which they called " Unity " has been good to use for new  and experience user's. The new desktop background has stunning images and lots of other functionality to watch out for. Try out the new Ubuntu 12.10 and Do some magic over it.