Ubuntu by Nixon, Robin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Ubuntu: Up and Running

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Audience Assumptions This Book Makes Organization of This Book Supporting Books Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples How to Contact Us Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments

1. About Ubuntu

Why Ubuntu? The Parts That Make Up Ubuntu

Debian GNU The Linux Kernel Tux Linux Distributions Ubuntu Versions X Window System Linux Desktop Environments

GNOME KDE Xfce

Linux Packages The Ubuntu Community Ubuntu Versions Things You See Things You Don’t See

Summary

2. Installing and Upgrading Ubuntu

The Live DVD

The Main Menu The Function Key Options

Starting the Live DVD Alternative Editions

About the MD5 Hashes Downloading a Distribution

Burning a CD or DVD

Using Active ISO Burner for Windows Burning an ISO Image Using OS X Burning an ISO Image Using Ubuntu Burning to a Thumb Drive

Virtual Installation

Microsoft Virtual PC VMware Sun VirtualBox

Getting started Creating a virtual machine Running a virtual machine

Other Virtualizers

Full Installation

Installing Ubuntu Under Windows

Performing the installation Important considerations

Installing Ubuntu As a Standalone OS

Sharing the hard disk Using the entire hard disk Entering your user details After rebooting Dual- and multi-boot setups Recovery mode Memory testing

What’s New in 10.04

Upgrading to New Releases

Installing from CD Upgrading an Existing Installation

Upgrade availability Skipping versions

What’s New in 10.04

Summary

3. Configuring

Keyboard

General Layouts Accessibility Mouse Keys Typing Break Keyboard Shortcuts

Mouse

General Accessibility

Graphics

Display Preferences

Sun VirtualBox

Sound

Sound Effects Hardware Input Output Applications

PulseAudio Basic Networking

Wired Connections

Installing suitable drivers

Wireless Connections Using an Ethernet Bridge

Printing

Finding Unreported Printers Other Printers

TV Tuners

Restarting and Setup Capture Cards Video Sources Input Connections Running MythTV

Webcams USB Media

What’s New in 10.04

Summary

4. The Desktop: Accessing Applications and Features

Logging In

Language Keyboard Sessions Accessibility

Desktop Layout

The Applications Menu The Places Menu

The Home Folder group The Storage Devices group The Network group The Search for Files… and Recent Documents groups

The System Menu

Preferences Administration The bottom three menu entries

The Top-Left Icons The Quit Button

Set Status Lock Screen Guest Session Switch User… Log Out… Suspend Hibernate Restart Shutdown What’s new in 10.04

The Remaining Top-Right Icons

The date and time New mail Sound volume Bluetooth Network connection

The Bottom-Right Icons

The Trash The workspace switcher

The Bottom Panel

Show desktop

Personalization

Appearance

Theme Background Fonts Interface What’s new in 10.04 Visual effects

Managing Panels

Adding an item to a panel Removing an item from a panel Moving an item within a panel Changing a launcher’s icon Adding a drawer Changing a drawer’s icon Adding a menu to a panel Hiding a panel Other panel properties

Editing Menus

Changing menu entry icons Moving and deleting entries Adding new menus and items

The Desktop Itself

Creating Folders, Launchers, and Files Managing Desktop Icons

Adding New Users What’s New in 10.04 Summary

5. The Filesystem, File Attributes, and Permissions

The Directory Tree Case Sensitivity and Special Characters Mounting Media

Drive Mounting Mounting ISO Files Mounting Network Folders Unmounting

Hidden Files and Folders Symbolic Links File Extensions File Permissions Users and Groups

Managing Users Managing Groups

Other File Attributes The Trash Summary

6. The Nautilus File Browser

Opening Files and Folders Dragging and Dropping Copying Files and Folders

Copying with External Media

Selecting Files and Folders

Lassoing Items Individually Selecting Items Selecting Items in Sequence Selecting All Items Moving or Deleting with Selections Opening Multiple Items

Opening multiple folders

Using Tabs Deselecting

Zooming In and Out The File Browser Menus

File Menu Edit Menu

Backgrounds and Emblems…

Other Features of the File Manager Preferences

Edit → Preferences → Views Edit → Preferences → Behavior Edit → Preferences → Display Edit → Preferences → List Columns Edit → Preferences → Preview Edit → Preferences → Media

Media Handling Other Media

The View Menu The Go Menu The Bookmarks Menu The Tabs Menu Help Context Menus Template Files The Toolbars

The Main Toolbar The Location Bar

Configuration Editor What’s New in 10.04 Summary

7. The Command Line

The Terminal Bash The Command-Line Editor Bash Commands

The cd, pwd, and ls Commands The cp and mkdir Commands The mv Command

Renaming items Moving items

The diff Command The find Command

What’s new in 10.04

The cat and more Commands The grep Command The rm and rmdir Commands The wc Command

Using man Absolute and Relative Paths Using Quotation Marks The PATH Environment Variable

Using the . Operator

Other Environment Variables Alternative Shells Using Nano to Edit Files Shell Scripts Using Backticks Using Pipes Using Redirection

Redirecting Output Redirecting Input The Difference Between Pipes and Redirections Appending to Files

Standard Input, Output, and Error

Streams and Handles Redirecting One Stream to Another The tee Command

Wildcards, Sets, and Brace Expansion

Using Sets and Ranges Using Brace Expansion

Using Aliases File Compression

Extracting Files

File and Folder Permissions

The Owner, Group, and World Attributes Using chmod Using chown Using chgrp

Using sudo

Logging in As root

System Processes

Killing and Restarting Processes from the Command Line

Summary

8. Installing and Removing Software

The Ubuntu Software Center

Installing a Program Removing a Program Advanced Features The Ubuntu Software Tab

Canonical-supported and community-maintained software Proprietary drivers Software restricted by copyright Source code Download from

The Other Software Tab The Updates Tab

Ubuntu updates Automatic updates Release upgrade

The Authentication Tab The Statistics Tab The View Menu The Remaining Menus

The Synaptic Package Manager

Installing a Program

Marking a program for installation Activating the installation process

Using Search to Install a Program Removing a Program Other Synaptic Options

Synaptic’s Menus

The File Menu The Edit Menu The Package Menu The Settings Menu The Help Menu

Using Aptitude Using apt-get

Updating the package index

Upgrading packages Searching for packages Installing a package Removing a package Getting help

Summary

9. System Maintenance and Security

System Maintenance

Preferences

Power Management

The On AC Power tab The On Battery Power tab The General tab

Preferred Applications

The Internet tab The Multimedia tab The System tab The Accessibility tab

Startup Applications

Remember current applications

Windows

Window Selection Titlebar Action Movement Key

Administration

Computer Janitor Login Screen Creating a password-free system System Monitor

The System tab The Processes tab The Resources tab The File Systems tab The menus

System Testing

Alpha and Beta Releases System Security

Passwords Root Access Physical Access Firewall Use Reliable Sources Don’t Use Untrusted Commands Updating Viruses and Malware Browsers and Email Clients Wine

Summary

10. Networking Ubuntu

Remote Desktop

Enabling the VNC Server

The remaining options

Connecting to the VNC Server

Using Ubuntu

The View menu Fullscreen mode

Using Windows Using Mac OS X

VNC Desktop Resolutions Using VNC over the Internet

Controlling Multiple Local Computers Using Shared Folders

Sharing Your Folders

Sharing folders on other operating systems

Using Keyrings

Managing Your Keyring

Summary

11. The Internet

Web Browsing

The Menus The Bookmarks Toolbar Tabs and Windows Searching Other Browsers

Email Instant Messaging

Using Pidgin

Adding buddies

Internet Telephony Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Telnet and SSH Ubuntu One

Joining and Logging In Using Ubuntu One

Summary

12. Using OpenOffice.org

Preparing the Example Files Writer

The Standard Toolbar The Formatting Toolbar Using Styles About Word Completion

Calc

The Standard Toolbar The Formatting Toolbar

Viewing and setting data types

Impress

The Standard Toolbar The Line and Filling Toolbar The Slides Frame The Workspace Frame The Tasks Frame The Drawing Toolbar The Master Slide

Draw Base Math Built-in Help Evolution Calendar What’s New in 10.04? Summary

13. Playing Games

Built-in Games PlayDeb Other Linux Games PlayOnLinux KDE Games Browser-Based Games Ubuntu Easter Eggs

The Ubuntu Fish

OpenOffice.org StarWars Aptitude Silliness What’s New in 10.04 Summary

14. Pictures, Sound, and Video

Movie Player

Adding Plug-ins

VLC Media Player Rhythmbox Music Player

Importing Tracks Playing Music Last.fm What’s New in 10.04

The GIMP Image Editor

Learning How to Use It What’s New in 10.04?

F-Spot Photo Manager Audacity Audio Editor Rosegarden PiTiVi Video Editor

What’s New in 10.04?

The Take Screenshot Program Summary

15. Other Ubuntu Distributions

Installation

Installing Distributions Alongside Ubuntu

Adding Kubuntu Adding Xubuntu Adding Mythbuntu Adding Edubuntu Adding Ubuntu Studio Adding Ubuntu

Kubuntu Xubuntu Mythbuntu Edubuntu Ubuntu Netbook Edition

What’s New in 10.04

Ubuntu Server Edition Ubuntu Studio Eeebuntu Even More Distributions Summary

16. Using Wine

What Is Wine? The Benefits of Wine Wine’s Limitations Installing Wine Installing Microsoft Fonts Configuring Wine Accessing the Windows C: Drive Further Information Summary

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