Install the FULL version of Gnome 3 on Ubuntu!

Ok, so like many people, I'm not a huge fan of Unity,
I understand that it has it's place, I've spend some time with it, and it's not terrible, I just fine Gnome 3 to make me more productive.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit but this should work on any version of ubuntu!

...Anyway, you can install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu by running:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session

But, the one in the Ubuntu repo is not the Full version, it's had some features removed, and if you install it you'll be stuck with some of unity's version of apps, such as the file manager nautilus.
here are some examples of the visuals.

Ubuntu's gnome 3 (nautilus)

In order to get the full version of gnome 3, you must add the PPA:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

If you already have gnome 3 installed you can upgrade to the Full version using the built in updater:

Ubuntu (12.10's) update manager. 

Or if you want to do it via the command line:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

If you do not have gnome 3 installed yet you can run this:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnome-session


Either way, reboot, your computer afterwards, and  log in to gnome, and you'll be at the full version:

Gnome 3 Full version (nautilus)

And You're Done!

[Fix] Ubuntu 12.10 Can't Log in to unity or Gnome3?

Hey everyone,

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and I forgot the little thing about, not downloading the ubuntu distro updates the day they come out.... may programmers may have not made compatibility patches, and ubuntu it's self can be a little bit unstable...

Any way, what's done, is done.

So after the install was complete, I rebooted. And I was greeted with the ubuntu 11.04 grub menu (the all purple one {boring!}  )  and then a new, fancy log in screen.

So I typed my password, and about halfway through the a wifi Login box came up, asking for a Wep key for a access point I accidently clicked on months ago {neighbors wifi} anyway,
I closed the box, turned off WiFi and hit enter.

After this the screen flash back for a second, and returned me to the login screen, so I typed it again, making sure Capslock was off. Same outcome, black screen then back to login,

I tried to use Unity, and it would just hang, I'd type my password, and it would just sit their with the spinning circle thing.

So, I rebooted and tried again. Same outcome on unity/gnome3

Luckily I had LXDE installed.
(you can do this with {Ctrl}{Alt}{F6} but you'll need to be connected to the internet,
wired works better, because for some reason, it could not load my wifi setup)

--The Fix--
I was able to fix this by first turning back on the sources that the update turned off,
from 'software sources'

then I ran:
sudo apt-get update --install-missing
followed by:
sudo apt-get upgrade
And I verified Gnome was still installed with:
sudo apt-get install gnome-sessionand it should say:
gnome-session is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

then Just Reboot, and you should be able to login.
It will take some time for the first boot,
Your favorites may not show up for around 2-3mins.

Also your extensions will need to be updated, so may of them will be disabled.

Enjoy!

And I hope this helps you out!

-BOBdotEXE

Fixing VLC dependencies error (Can't Reinstall VLC)

The story: (feel free to skip)

     I use VLC a lot, And When 2.0 came out Ubuntu did not update to that version, the REPO had the older version even months later, So I added the daily repo:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu

and that worked for a while, after a few months later I received a 'Distribution upgrade', and when I installed it, it removed VLC. when I tried to re-install it gave me a bunch of unmet dependency's, so I disabled the source, ran apt-get update, and tried to install the older VLC, that did not work either. I eventually found a web page, and it helped me get it working, and I was also able to get the 'Stable Daily' working too


But last night, I got another 'disto upgrade' and it uninstalled VLC again.

when I try to reinstall from daily I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable
       Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 the same thing would happen when I disabled the 'Daily' source. after some time on askubuntu, I tried some suggestions, and neither helped, So I picked one of the dependencies and tried to install it manually:

sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
This gave me a dependency error for 'libvlc5' so I attempted to install that:
sudo apt-get install libvlc5
And that said it depended on 'libvlccore5' so...
sudo apt-get install libvlccore5
and that pointed to 'vlc-data' and another program I did not reconize. so I started with vlc-data:
sudo apt-get install vlc-data

 and this time it said vlc-data was already installed! 


-The Fix-

so I ran:
sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc-data

and just to make sure, nothing went wrong. I disabled the 'Daily' source for VLC Then I ran:
sudo apt-get update
followed by:
sudo apt-get install vlc
and it installed without any issues, so then I turned the daily source back on
and ran:
sudo apt-get upgrade
and BOOM! I was able to get the latest version of VLC!

 --- Quick fix:

 This may fix the problem for you (did not work for me though):
sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc
followed by:
sudo apt-get install vlc

source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/197161/cant-reinstall-vlc-removed-by-updateagain/197321#197321

BackLight not working on your laptop? try this!

Every since I got this new HP laptop about a year ago,
I was unable to change the backlight brightness, this caused many issues,
most noticeably with battery life. and after a year and 3 months I finally found the Fix:

Special thanks to Chris Moore at askubuntu.com

All you have to do is edit /etc/default/grub
and find the line : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="
and add acpi_backlight=vendor to the end of it.
so the full line should read:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor"

Save the file and then run sudo update-grub
after you reboot, you will now be able to change your brightness! Minor issue: sometime after my screen has been locked for a while, the brightness dose not turn on but the password screen comes up, after you type your password and press enter, you will be able to turn your brightness back up (using keyboard). weird, I'll let you guys know if I find a fix. source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/21523/screen-brightness-not-changing-on-acer-5742-notebook/148242#148242

Sharing Internet Linux on Ubuntu(DCHP Server setup included)

Hey guys this is my first post on the new blog.

 Today, I'll show you how to share Your internet connection with from your Ubuntu PC over Ethernet,
so you could do Wlan->Eth or even Eth->eth.

This can be used to:

-Get an extra computer connected to the internet (6 pc's and only 5 ports on router)
-Bring Older Pc's online (use a pc that dose not support wifi online, but connecting a laptop to the pc's eth port)
-Make a connection bridge (connect laptop to a wifi router, and connect laptop{in a different room} to wired switch) have 5 other PC's online without having to buy 5 wifi cards 
-Lan Party! (connect to a switch/hub and everyone will get an Ip address and internet)
-Connect PS2 or Xbox 360 to the internet!
-Analyse network traffic,...for security reasons. 

The drawback:
All computers connected are on a different subnet and will not be able to see the upper level computers, so no file sharing can be done.

 the first thing we will need to do is add a new connection that will forward the internet. open up terminal, and type:   nm-connection-editor

This should open the network config box:

From here click 'Add'
From here you will see a new window open,

 Give it a Name you will remember,
I use "FWD" short for 'forward'

Feel Free to leave the two check boxes checked.

(optinal)
If you have two Ethernet devices, and you know you want to only use one (such as eth2) as the 'out' connection (connecting to client PC) then you can click the arrow next to 'Device mac address'
and select the device you wish to lock it to.
(can be changed by going back and editing this connection)

Now click the 3rd tab.

From here you should see 'IPv4 Settings'
under method click 'Automatic DCHP' and  change it to 'Shared to other computers'



Once this is done connect the two devices, and you where you chose your wifi network their should be a new option under 'Wired' that says 'FWD'
or what ever you named it.

Make sure your Wifi card/ or 1st Ethernet device is still connected to the internet.

and from here you would be able to connect your client to the internet using a static IP address:
Client:
IP: 10.42.0.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 10.42.0.1

Dns: 8.8.8.8   (google public DNS)
dns2: 208.67.220.220  (open DNS)


But Today I'll be showing you how to also set up a DCHP server for this new connection.
-This is completely optional, but it's good for if you connect to more than one PC, and do not want have to worry about remembering to change the IP settings Every time.


first install Dhcp:

sudo apt-get install dhcp3-server

set it up:

sudo gedit /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server

then change:    INTERFACES=""

to be where you want to broadcast

eg. INTERFACES="eth0"

mostly likely the new network address will be 10.42.0.1but make sure with:
ifconfigyou'll get something like this:
Find your outgoing connection, mine is going from wlan0 to Eth0
so eth0 is my outgoing connection.
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:1f:46:88:52:11  
          inet addr:10.42.0.1  Bcast:10.42.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::121f:74ff:fe11:ad23/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1400  Metric:1
          RX packets:290599 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:147466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:42187116 (42.1 MB)  TX bytes:69827448 (69.8 MB)
          Interrupt:47 Base address:0xc000 

look next to 'inet addr' and if it's something like 192.168.1. or 192.168.0. then  chances are you did not connect to your new network. if it starts with 10. and is different such as 10.32.0.1, then just substitute the first 3 number sets '10.32.0' for everything I show from now on.
so If i say type '10.42.0.2', then you'd type '10.32.0.2' but that's ONLY if you've got a different IP!

Next we'll configure the server:
sudo gedit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf   

once it opens, add this to the bottom

#----internet Share
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers 10.42.0.1;
option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 208.67.220.220;

subnet 10.42.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.42.0.2 10.42.0.250;
}


now we will restart server and networking:

sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server6 restart
sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

now disconnect your client device, and
wait a few seconds, and reconnect,
If you are unable to connect, restart the client, and if you are still having issue's restart both. 

You should now be able to connect to the internet!

-Optional- Toggle DCHP
(testing)
By default Your DCHP server will start every time you start Your PC, however you may now want it to, why you ask?

well if you have a Laptop, and only one Ethernet port, when you're at home running the DCHP for you network may be fine, but if you go to a friends house, you would not want to have it running, because this could conflict with their network. so to enable toggling use these two commands:
sudo sh -c "echo 'manual' > /etc/init/isc-dhcp-server6.override"

sudo sh -c "echo 'manual' > /etc/init/isc-dhcp-server.override"

then when you're done running the server use:
sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server stop&&sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server6 stop

you can verify they are both off with:

 sudo  status isc-dhcp-server6&&  status isc-dhcp-server6

the output should be:

isc-dhcp-server6 stop/waiting

isc-dhcp-server stop/waiting

When you reboot they will both be off,

you can turn it back on with:
sudo start  isc-dhcp-server

Sources:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-and-configure-dhcp-server-in-ubuntu-server.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/162695/setup-dhcp-server-for-lan-party

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SHZ1H0/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00 (adapter used for initial testing {Works great!})

http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/whats-the-recommended-way-to-enable-disable-services/20347

Welcome to: "Big Book Of 'Buntu"!

Hello All!
I really enjoy using Ubuntu, and learning how to use all the cool feature, but some times it's hard to find help or answers, and sometimes I have to find three different pages and combine the steps to get what I want working.

So I decided to create a site that shares everything I learn,

I hope this will help someone out!