KBlog

After upgrading to Kubuntu 10.04 I was disappointed to find that KDevelop wasn't listed in the default repositories as apparently it wasn't ready in time for the release of 10.04. From what I've read there's not much chance of it being added to the repos… more »

I often see on forums people having trouble installing Flash to work with Firefox. More often than not they have gone to Adobe's website and are have downloaded the plug-in in as a tar.gz which needs extracting, copying to a folder and then softlinks cre… more »

Due to MP3 being a patented format and Ubuntu's policy of not allowing patented software in their default installations K3b isn't able to burn music CDs from MP3s out of the box. Luckily adding MP3 support is very simple and only requires one extra pa… more »

Strangely all the distributions of Linux that I've used don't come with an application to decompress rar files. To install a simple application to decompress them in Ubuntu simply type: sudo apt-get install unrar Once installed you can decompress y… more »

To start off lets install the dependencies. Starlink requires C Shell (csh) to run. C Shell is an alternative to the more commonly used bash. To install C Shell type the following: sudo apt-get install csh Once installed download the latest version… more »