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Fixing NTFS devices in Ubuntu

Post author By masnun
Post date December 25, 2011
2 Comments on Fixing NTFS devices in Ubuntu

I am running Zorin OS 5 which is based on Ubuntu. I had a NTFS drive which was somehow corrupted. This is how I fixed the issue:

Install ntfsprogs package:

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

1	sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Find the drive’s device path:

sudo fdisk -l

1	sudo fdisk -l

Unmount the drive if already mounted:

sudo umount /media/storage

1	sudo umount /media/storage

Run ntfsfix tool to fix common NTFS issues:

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda3

1	sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda3

Now mount again and have fun:

sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/storage

1	sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/storage

That was simple, no? 😀

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Installing Flash Player in Kubuntu 11.04 amd64

Post author By masnun
Post date October 6, 2011

I installed Kubuntu 11.04 64bit on my notebook PC about an hour ago. It has so far impressed me. The only issue I was having is the installation of Flash Player. I tried a few workouts I found on the internet but none but the following worked. I found the solution on Ask Ubuntu. Save the following codes and run it as a shell script. It installs Flash Player 10 though. If you’re bash savvy, you can of course tweak it to install the version you desire! Happy flashing (!?) 😀 😛

# Preparation #
sudo killall -9 firefox
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

# Download and Extract Flash #
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
tar xzvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz


# Install #
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/
# Firefox
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
# Note that I didn't need to do the next two commands, but I left them in anyway.
# Firefox is not my main browser, so I'm not sure what the purpose of those two commands are 
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so  /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
# Chrome
sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/chrome/plugins
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/libflashplayer.so

# Cleanup #
rm flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

# Preparation #

sudo killall -9 firefox

sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper

sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*

sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*

sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*

sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*

sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

# Download and Extract Flash #

cd ~

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

tar xzvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

# Install #

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/

# Firefox

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

# Note that I didn't need to do the next two commands, but I left them in anyway.

# Firefox is not my main browser, so I'm not sure what the purpose of those two commands are

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

# Chrome

sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/chrome/plugins

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-manual/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/libflashplayer.so

# Cleanup #

rm flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

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Getting full theming of Ubuntu inside VirtualBox

Post author By masnun
Post date September 13, 2011

Due to some issues with my laptop hardware, I can not use Ubuntu all time. After some time, the laptop just freezes. After repeated occurrence of the same crash, I have started using Windows full time and kept Ubuntu inside VirtualBox. In the default setup, the first thing I noticed is that the theme is broken – both in unity and the classic ubuntu session (which is a gnome2 based fallback option, I guess). I love working on Ubuntu, but I hate the grey old ubuntu theme that appears on my screen. I always wondered why this happened.

After some googling, I came to find that VirtualBox by default doesn’t enable 3D hardware acceleration. So, Unity can not find required hardware to enable the theme. I just increased the video memory for the virtual machine to 32MB and enabled 3D acceleration. Installed VirtualBox guest addition. Restarted the machine.

Everything was fine except the panels and nautilus icons. It is mainly because the “gnome-settings-daemon” crashes. I killed the process and then restarted it using:

(PS: Don’t use sudo, you need to kill the process running under your account)

killall gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon

1 2	killall gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon

Then I dealt with nautilus in the same manner:

killall nautilus

1	killall nautilus

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