Thursday, November 14, 2013

Install .bundle file on Ubuntu


  1. Open terminal
  2. Navigate to the folder that contains the installer (.bundle) file using cd command
    example: cd /media/Data/Software
  3. Start the installer by using sudo sh command
    sudo sh VMware-Player-6.0.1-1379776.x86_64.bundle
  4. It should pop out an installer window, and the installation process should continue there.

Enable Automount Harddisk on Startup

  1. Open Terminal, (you can use Ctrl + Alt + T shortcut to start terminal in ubuntu)
  2. Create a backup for fstab file, just in case
    sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old
  3. Get UUID for the partition for automount
    sudo blkid
  4. Open fstab file for editing
    sudo gedit /etc/fstab
  5. Add in the following line to the file, and save it
    UUID=<uuid> <pathtomount> <file system> uid=<userid>,gid=<groupid>,umask=0022,sync,auto,rw 0 0
  6. Restart and check if the partition is automounted
Examples for the <> variables:
<uuid>=3087106951D2FA7E (get this variable from step 3)
<pathtomount>=/media/Data/
<file system>=ntfs-3g (for an NTFS partition)
<userid>=1000
<groupid>=1000


Friday, January 4, 2013

Make Empathy Internet Messaging to Run on Startup

To enable Empathy Internet Messaging to automatically run on startup, we will need to add the run command to the Startup Applications. Press the Superkey and search for "startup applications".


Under Startup Applications, add a new startup programs. Under Name, put "Empathy", Command put "empathy -h" and you can put anything under Comment, or leave it blank. Take note that the "-h" at the command is to hide the Empathy on startup, you can remove the "-h" if you want to show the Empathy windows on startup.


Click Add and that's it. Have fun!