Install sun jdk 6 on ubuntu gutsy

Use the following to install the sun java developers kit on ubuntu gutsy:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
sudo update-java-alternatives –set java-6-sun

Install Wine in Ubuntu Gutsy

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I think this this blog item is outdated and there is another way to install wine. Please “google” to another installation instruction.

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First add the repository to ubuntu:

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy-winehq.list

Than add the key:

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Than update the repository:

sudo apt-get update

Than install wine:

sudo apt-get install wine

Install the medibuntu repository

 I copied a snipped from the medibuntu website to explain what it is and how to add the repository to the sources.list. See this link to get the whole page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Introduction

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc).

Some of these packages include the libdvdcss package from VideoLAN and the external binary codecs package (commonly known as w32codecs) used by MPlayer and xine.

Install in Gutsy

• Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”:

  sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

• Then, add the GPG Key:

  wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Ubuntu Gutsy Radeon Dual Head

I have a radeon 7000 ve card with two lcd monitors with a resolution of 1024×768. To get them working in Gutsy I added the following Virtual line in the Screen section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]"
        Monitor         "C384FA-M"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Virtual         2048 768
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x640"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

After a logout / login I give the command:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of VGA-0

Now the display is in dual head mode. Because the total display size of the radeon7000/ve card is smaller than the 2048×768 virtual desktop the right side of the desktop isn’t refreshed. I had a work around by opening a permanent firefox browser on my right monitor.

When you put the xrandr statement in the .profile the dual head is always enabled when you log on.