Day 1 with Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn

Ubuntu 7.04 is a lovely distro from the Debian ppl .The installation was a breeze, with all the graphical instructions u need. I made a dual boot with my existing Windows Xp,and jst gave this Linux distro about 5Gig of space. The installation recquired a free space of bout 2gigs.

Ubuntu doesnt support mp3 or divx out of the box.That was the major drawback of a otherwise lovely OS. The desktop effects are superb with the virtual terminals on a rotating cube.

now comes the pain and the hard part, installing the mp3 codecs and the divx plugins.

Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn (henceforth will be referred to as UFF) is a debian variation,so the packages for UFF is of .deb format. The audio player of UFF is Rythmbox and video player is Totem Movie Player.Both of them needs gstreamer pugins for operation.

there are two ways to install the plugins.

1: manually dwnloading them from http://packages.debian.com/ (the best i've found after googling fr an hour)

2: using the apt-get install command to dwnload the packages n install them from the internet

from the debian packages dwnloaded (.deb) i found that installing them manually was a hell lot easier with the dpkg -i command only if u have all the dependenies resolved...i repeat..only if all the dependancies is resolved..

N if its not done...then welcome to the dependency hell...

Otherwise u need an active internet connection to dwnload the packages with their dependencies from the said repository..

N thats where my headache started..

I have a mobile GPRS system with Airtel provider and MOBILE OFFICE as the GPRS service. Unfornunately i couldnt connect my phone to the internet..coz i later found out that the cable for the same works on all GPRS 10 phones ..n my Samsung C210 is a class 6 GPRS. Better go for Nokia 3220 or higher for Internet in UFF.

The other way round is to share internet from another system via ethernet.

Steps to share internet from a system running Windows with internet..

1> make a new Home network with the option to make this computer as the one with direct internet access checked in..

2> now on the terminal/command promt in dos/windows ttype ipconfig/all to get the Primary and Alternate DNS. Note them down along with the IP address of the ISP. All of these should be clearly shown on the screen.

3> Now type in the Default Gateway,Primary DNS.Alternate DNS in the LAN comnnection TCP/IP property section with the ones as shown in the figure if u r using Airtel Mobile OFFice.

4> now in UFF in ur other system jst plug in the ethernet RJ 45 and make sure the Network proxy is set to "automatic" from the System>Administrator>Network Proxy.Do not enter the manuall proxy of 1092.168.0.2

5> now open the Firefox..and goto Edit>Preferences>security>network..

set the proxy to DHCP..

6> Hola!! u have ur internet shared n working in UFF..

Steps to download XMMS: the winamp of linux..

1> in the terminal type in sudo apt-get install xmms

after bout 15 min of processing the xmms is downloaded and installed in Applications>Sound n Video>XMMS

2> u can play mp3's now..

3> for gstreamer type in sudo apt-get install gstreamer

4> for VLC player type in sudo apt-get install vlc

now u can listen to ur mp3's and watch ur videos..

problems that i faced....

1> the videos dnt show up instantly ..instead i see a blank screen..its coz my intel 950 GMA video controller isnt recognized..i have to move the vlc box a bit to get the picture..

2> I SIMPLY CANT GET MY AIRTEL MOBILE OFFICE WORKING..

rest is too good fr ur eyes....

enjoy UBUNTU FIESTY FAWN...