SuperTuxKart

Hey All,

This post explains how to install the game SuperTuxKart.

Issue these commands from the konsole:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stk/dev

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install supertuxkart

Thats it...
Ananth S Gouri


Source: Digitizor, SuperTuxKartDevelopmentBlog via OMG Ubuntu

gmcs

Hey All,

If your mono (Windows C# as in layman's term) program involves CLI (Common Language Interface) 2.0, then running mcs will not compile the program.

You need to install gmcs for Mono C# 2.0 and C# 3.0 compiler for CLI 2.0 as is from synaptic...

And the command also differs. It will be gmcs filename.cs and not mcs filename.cs.

But to run the program it will be same - mono filename.exe

Hope this was interesting...
Ananth S Gouri

Installing XBMC "Dharma" on Ubuntu

Hi All,

This post explains how to install XBMC (XBox Media Center) 10.0 code named Dharma onto your Ubuntu systems.

Issue these commands from the terminal:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xmbc

Thats it...

You can view xbmc from Sound and Video

Enjoy,
Ananth S Gouri

festival

Hi All,

This post explains how to make use of the software festival - one that is used as a text to speech synthesis system...

Make sure that you have festival installed...

Or else issue this command:

sudo apt-get install festival

Or thro synaptic install festival

Once festival is installed, create a text file and save it a.txt

Issuing this below command will read out your a.txt as speech:

festival --tts a.txt

Note above line contains 2 hyphens before tts

Thats it..

Tc,
Ananth S Gouri

Muktware article

A developers view on Fedora 14

Please find the above link which I wrote on a developer's perspective on Laughlin...

Tc,
Ananth S Gouri

flv2avi using avidemux tool

Hi All,

This post explains how to convert a flv file to a avi file.

Follow these steps:

1. Download the video from youtube making use of youtube-dl script.
2. Install youtube-dl through Synaptic.
3. Install avidemux through Synaptic.
4. Open avidemux and open the flv file downloaded.
5. Change the video format to MPEG 4 ASP (Xvid). Select it from the drop down.
6. Change the audio format to MP3 (lame). Select it from the drop down.
7. Save the file / output file by giving a filename with an avi extension.

Thats it.

This particular created avi file should be playable in most of the recent dvd  players.

Try it out to enjoy.

Tc,
Ananth S Gouri

Typing tutors

Hi All,

This post is for all those people who waste more than 70% time searching the keys on the keyboard.

There are so many free typing tutors and online tutors in the Windows world.

On Debian based distros you find many packages. Of them - try out ktouch and gtypist.

Install it using synaptic.

Keep half an hour of your day's time for learning typing.

Tc,
Ananth S Gouri