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[oshan1991]

Have one as my signature. I thought Fedora's sending some stickers

@asiridol ur welcome bro and welcme to the fedora commiunity

and 070348K we dnt send stickers cauz fedora is running entirely on the commiunity so basically we dont have any sponseres we get the os from redhat developers and running entirely on free minded open source ppl around the world

 

[nagaya]

i'm thinking of switching ti another distro,what do u prefer?
fc11 or centos?

 

[oshan1991]

i'm thinking of switching ti another distro,what do u prefer?
fc11 or centos?

fed

 

[blackhole]

i'm thinking of switching ti another distro,what do u prefer?
fc11 or centos?

CentOS is best for servers

 

[Wal Bada]

I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 (that was f***ing easy installation compared to WinXP or Vista).

I am stuck with following problems.

1) How to install custom fonts (3rd party fonts like DL Manel, FM Abhaya etc)?
2) How to install Wijesekara keyboard with Sinhala unicode support (The local languages site installation gives a bug)

Thanks in advance.

 

[kosandpol]

I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 (that was f***ing easy installation compared to WinXP or Vista).

I am stuck with following problems.

1) How to install custom fonts (3rd party fonts like DL Manel, FM Abhaya etc)?

With Gnome desktop, installing fonts is a bit of a pain.
As root, copy the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype folder.
then from within the same folder, run sudo fc-cache -f -v

With KDE desktop (kubuntu), installing fonts is a breeze. Kmenu-> System Settings ->Fonts installer

2) How to install Wijesekara keyboard with Sinhala unicode support (The local languages site installation gives a bug)

Thanks in advance.

Sinhala unicode is availabe in the Ubuntu repositories. You can install it directly from that.
sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug

If you want the Sinhala interface, that's also availalbe.
sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-si

 

[ratedrkoman]

guyz where can i download codecs for Mp3 and all the other video codecs ??

help me i'm new to ubuntu !
just wanted to give it a try...

 

[madurax86]

guyz where can i download codecs for Mp3 and all the other video codecs ??

help me i'm new to ubuntu !
just wanted to give it a try...

just try to play an mp3 then itll ask u to download the needed plugins
just click download

 

[ratedrkoman]

just try to play an mp3 then itll ask u to download the needed plugins
just click download

ohh simple as that ?
thnxz

machan it says no package found.....

maybe cuz im on the live cd
must install this .....

downloading the graphic drivers now

 

[madurax86]

ohh simple as that ?
thnxz

machan it says no package found.....

maybe cuz im on the live cd
must install this .....

downloading the graphic drivers now

Install it connect to the net, open up an mp3 from ubuntu's default media player and it'll ask for the plugin and it'll install it too ..well that happend for me

 

[madurax86]

With Gnome desktop, installing fonts is a bit of a pain.
As root, copy the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype folder.
then from within the same folder, run sudo fc-cache -f -v

With KDE desktop (kubuntu), installing fonts is a breeze. Kmenu-> System Settings ->Fonts installer

Sinhala unicode is availabe in the Ubuntu repositories. You can install it directly from that.
sudo apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug

If you want the Sinhala interface, that's also availalbe.
sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-si

ok i downloaded the "sinhala interface" how do i access that?

 

[ratedrkoman]

thank u for guiding me on that

im sorry i'm a complete n00b to ubuntu or linux
okay now im tryin to install ubuntu inside windows
n during the process this window apears askin for the directry to install etc..
n there this drop down menu called "installation size" which starts with 8GB to 30 GB
now i'm scared whether my partition will screw up or smething......

what should i do ?

 

[ratedrkoman]

okay installed ubuntu 9.04 very fast install now having truble installing the graphics driver i know where the terminal n all is but i don't know the codes n all the downloaded graphic driver setup file is located on the desktop how do i intall ?/ this is only i know so far ( for commands) "sudo apt-get -t" plz sme one reply back to windows...

 

[blackhole]

thank u for guiding me on that

im sorry i'm a complete n00b to ubuntu or linux
okay now im tryin to install ubuntu inside windows
n during the process this window apears askin for the directry to install etc..
n there this drop down menu called "installation size" which starts with 8GB to 30 GB
now i'm scared whether my partition will screw up or smething......

what should i do ?

I also installed ubuntu on windows. still but problem

 

[coolshano]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ela.... FOSS rockz..

 

[madurax86]

okay installed ubuntu 9.04 very fast install now having truble installing the graphics driver i know where the terminal n all is but i don't know the codes n all the downloaded graphic driver setup file is located on the desktop how do i intall ?/ this is only i know so far ( for commands) "sudo apt-get -t" plz sme one reply back to windows...

u know how to manage ur self in terminals?? if not
use cd to change directory
you are in home directory of the user that u are using by default type
cd Desktop
to get in to the desktop directory ...so on and so on you'll have to run the graphics driver pack from the path ...mine was ATI n i had to run it whats yours?

 

[ratedrkoman]

u know how to manage ur self in terminals?? if not
use cd to change directory
you are in home directory of the user that u are using by default type
cd Desktop
to get in to the desktop directory ...so on and so on you'll have to run the graphics driver pack from the path ...mine was ATI n i had to run it whats yours?

nVidia machan

when i ran the setup file
a window apeared asking whether to run it on the terminal or roots

when i ran it on the terminal a msg apeared saying that i should run roots

so when i ran roots nothin seems to be hapening .....

 

[madurax86]

thank u for guiding me on that

im sorry i'm a complete n00b to ubuntu or linux
okay now im tryin to install ubuntu inside windows
n during the process this window apears askin for the directry to install etc..
n there this drop down menu called "installation size" which starts with 8GB to 30 GB
now i'm scared whether my partition will screw up or smething......

what should i do ?

n00b here
i havent installed ubuntu inside windoz lol windows will make ubuntu slower than windows ....no use
so better give it some space for its own! i gave 20 GB i think ...this is on a 160GB HDD
there are lots of people who have 320GB+ now lol

 

[madurax86]

nVidia machan

when i ran the setup file
a window apeared asking whether to run it on the terminal or roots

when i ran it on the terminal a msg apeared saying that i should run roots

so when i ran roots nothin seems to be hapening .....

roots mean that that you should open it with "sudo <path-to-app>"
then itll ask for the root password
then the installation will continue

 

[yman]

GUYS PLS TELL ME THE BEST FREE O.S

Like Fedora 11, Ubuntu,open sues