Moving Forward

As you may have picked up, this entire project is about keeping the ati driver on my dell latitude d531. I have pushed hardy as far as it will go and will start working on intrepid/jaunty at this point. I will be posting the massively updated hardy if anyone would like to play with it. Off the top of my head, the packages updated beyond repos are ;

rhythmbox, gimp, openoffice, java, azureus, firefox, and numerous libs needed to support those.

  I have slower cable, so I will get the ISO up in the middle of the night tonight probably on mediafire.   Stay tuned to this space for our continuing adventures in ubuntu.

more upgrades

If you  are on the internet, you know that flash is everywhere. If you are using hardy heron, you also know that the version of flash in the ubuntu repo is OLD. Installing 11.2, the latest version adobe makes for linux, is really simple. Head on over to the adobe website, grab the tar.gz for other linuxes, extract it and grab the libflashplayer.so, toss that file into /usr/share/mozilla/plugins, and voila, newer flash!

 The openoffice that ships with hardy and can be gotten through ubuntu is 2.4.6, getting it directly from openoffice.org can get you up to the CURRENT version, 4.1 . Grab your language's deb pack from http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#aoo , then exract it to a directory and in a terminal run "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" BOOM, modern day office software.

Azureus in the ubuntu repos is a bit OLD, I lie, it's very old. I had the hardest time finding a torrent client for 8.04 that would accept magnet links. I remembered that azureus was written in java, and since we upgraded our java last post, it should be ok to push it a little further. First step is to install azureus from the ubuntu repos, then grab the newer jar from http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/files/x_obsolete/vuze-4.3.1.4/Azureus4.3.1.4.jar/download . Using a sudo'ed file manager of your choice, rename the newer version jar to Azureus2.jar and overwrite the file in /usr/share/java . Pirate bay here we come.

I may be flipping distros to scientific/redhat/centos since the 5.x branch is still actively supported until 2017, if I do I will continue updating this blog, though the title will be a bit misleading at that point.

Newer versions of lots of things!

here is my sources.list

 deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multivers

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# lxde desktop
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lxde/ubuntu hardy main
#gimp 2.6.1
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/davidf/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
# installer for sun java 7
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu lucid main
# wine 1.2
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu hardy main


After you get this in, do "sudo ap-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade"

  This will get your system up to date, and give you newer gimp (default is 2.4.6), wine (def 1.1), and java (def 6).


Tomorrow I will post how to get flash 11, open office 3.2, and azureus 4.something.

Have fun my herons

New browser!!!

I have got a waaay better browser than the chrome linked in last post up and running. My wife and I like to share browser settings/bookmarks/history. We show each other things all the time, the older chrome doesn't allow that, and it doesn't even have plugins? ewwww

so...


32 bit

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/files/mozilla/apt/pool/main/f/firefox-mozilla-build/firefox-mozilla-build_17.0.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb/download


64 bit

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/files/mozilla/apt/pool/main/f/firefox-mozilla-build/firefox-mozilla-build_17.0.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb/download

Firefox 17.01 is from the end of 2012, pretty recent for old hardy heron.

The google voice plugin I linked in last post works absolutely fine with it as well.