Note: How to Access Internet in DMCE?

For accessing internet through web browser in our college needs username and password

for this you need to follow these steps:

1. Open terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.config

2. Now copy the following lines into the file entering your username and password at

appropriate places:

Aquire::http::proxy “http://username:password@10.0.0.1:8080/”;

Aquire::https::proxy “https://username:password@10.0.0.1:8080/”;

Aquire::socks::proxy “socks://username:password@10.0.0.1:8080/”;

1. How to play DVD on Ubuntu?

Install Codecs:

Using the Software Centre

You should click the links below one at a time. They will open the Software Centre to

the correct package. You may need to allow your browser to open the Software Centre.

Once the Software Centre has opened, you can click install in the top-right-hand corner

of the screen (you may be asked for your password), then close the Software Centre. You will

need to click the links and then click install one at a time, but you do not need to wait for one

to finish installing before proceeding to the next.

Install LibDVDCSS › For recognizing DVDs in Ubuntu.

Install LibDVDRead4 › For reading DVDs in Ubuntu.

Install LibDVDNav4 › For navigating DVDs in Ubuntu.

These are not included by default, because to pass them on to you, Canonical (who

make Ubuntu) would have to pay a royalty, making Ubuntu non-free. For personal use

however, they are free for you to install.

open the Software Center and install the packages libdvdcss, libdvdread4, and libdvdnav4 by

searching for them (upper-right-hand corner) and clicking install (only revealed when they're

selected). Give your password when prompted.

Using the Terminal

If you are more technically experienced, you may find it significantly faster and easier

to install via the terminal.

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss libdvdread4 libdvdnav4

*Note: To paste in the terminal, DO NOT use Ctrl+V. Use Ctrl+Shift+V.

The same applies to copying and cutting.

You will be prompted for your password. When you provide it, no dots, stars, or other

characters will appear in place of the letters. This is normal. Proceed and hit enter.

Playing DVDs

Open the dashboard and launch VLC Media Player. You can find it by searching for

VLC. Open VLC. If VLC does not play your DVD automatically, click Fileand select Open

Disc. Click Play.

2. How to install Microsoft Fonts in Libre Office?

Times New Roman, Calibri, and many other popular fonts are created by Microsoft and

can’t be included with Linux. If you open a Word document or another Microsoft Office

document in LibreOffice or OpenOffice, you’ll need Microsoft’s fonts installed on your Linux

system to see the documents as they were intended to look.

You can also use Microsoft’s fonts to create documents of your own, so you can compose

a document in Calibri or Times New Roman and save it as a DOCX or DOC filefor maximum

compatibility with Office.

Install Microsoft’s TrueType Core fonts

Microsoft released a package of “TrueType core fonts for the web” back in 1996. These

fonts were given a very permissive license agreement, so anyone could install them. Microsoft

wanted their fonts to be the standard fonts everyone with a web browser had, so they gave them

away. Microsoft terminated this project in 2002, but the fonts can still be installed thanks to

MIcrosoft’s old license agreement.

This font pack contains Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New,

Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Verdana, and Webdings. Times New Roman

was the default font for Office documents until Calibri debuted in Office 2007.

This package can be easily installed on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, you can’t install it

from the Ubuntu Software Center on modern versions of Ubuntu like Ubuntu 14.04. If you try to

install this package from the Ubuntu Software Center, the Software Center will freeze—you need

to use the terminal so you can accept Microsoft’s License agreement. Don’t worry! This is easy.

First, open a terminal. Click the Ubuntu icon on the dock, search for “Terminal,” and click the

terminal shortcut.

Type or copy-and-paste the following command into the terminal and press Enter. This

command asks for administrator access (sudo) before launching the package manager (apt-get)

and telling it to download and install (install) the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Type your password when prompted and press Enter again. When the license agreement

appears, use the arrow and Page Down/Page Up keys to scroll through it. Press Tab to select the

OK button and press Enter to accept Microsoft’s license agreement. The installer will download

the fonts onto your system and configure them so they’re immediately available to applications

like LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

Other Linux distributions also offer similarly named “corefonts” packages you can easily install.

Search your Linux distribution’s package manager for such a package.

Install Microsoft’s ClearType fonts

Microsoft added a group of new “ClearType Fonts” to Windows with Windows Vista and

Office 2007. These fonts are named Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, and

Consolas. Calibri became the default font on Microsoft Word 2007, and it’s still the default font

on Word 2013 today.

Microsoft never released these fonts to everyone like they did with the older core fonts.

However, Microsoft does make these fonts available to download as part of their free

PowerPoint Viewer 2007 application. If you don’t have a Windows system around, you can use a

script that downloads the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 application from Microsoft, extracts the six

ClearType fonts, and installs them on your Linux system. This script will install the ClearType

fonts for just your user account, while the above script installs the TrueType core fonts for every

user account on your system.

The fastest, easiest way to do this is with a few terminal commands. These commands are

easy-to-use—rather than walk you through clicking many different things, we can just have you

copy-and-paste a few commands.

If you haven’t yet installed the TrueType core fonts, you’ll need to run the sudo apt-get

install cabextract command to install the cabextract utility on your system. If you installed the

Microsoft core fonts using the command above, this should already be installed.

Next, type mkdir .fonts and press Enter to create the fonts directory the script requires.

The script will complain that you don’t have a .fonts directory if you don’t do this first.

Next, copy-and-paste or type the following command into the terminal and press Enter. This

command downloads the VistaFonts-Installer script and runs it. The script downloads the fonts

from Microsoft and installs them on your system:

wget -qO- http://plasmasturm.org/code/vistafonts-installer/vistafonts-installer | bash

Install Tahoma, Segoe UI, and other fonts

The above two font packages are probably all you’ll need. They’ll give you the standard

Microsoft Office fonts, from the older TrueType core fonts like Times New Roman to the newer

ClearType Fonts like calibri. These are the standard fonts used in Microsoft Office documents by

default.

However, some fonts aren’t included in these packages. Tahoma isn’t included with the

TrueType core fonts package, while Segoe UI and other newer Windows fonts aren’t included

with the ClearType Fonts package.

If you have a Windows system lying around, these fonts are fairly easy to install. For

example, let’s say you’re dual-booting Ubuntu Linux and Windows. You’ll find your Windows

partition in Ubuntu’s file manager. Click the Windows drive in the sidebar to access it. Navigate

to the Windows\Fonts directory and you’ll see all the fonts installed on your Windows PC,

including the fonts that came with it. Double-click a font and click theInstall button to install it

for your user account. You can use this trick to quickly install any other Windows fonts you

want, including Tahoma and Segoe UI. In fact, you can even use this trick to install fonts like

Times New Roman and Calibri if you have a Windows system.

If you have another Windows computer, you can navigate to the Fonts pane in the

Control Panel or open the Fonts folder at C:\Windows\Fonts. Select the fonts you want to use,

then drag-and-drop them to a removable drive. You’ll get copies of the fonts in .ttf form. Take

the removable drive to your Ubuntu system, double-click each .ttf file you want to install, and

click the Install button to install it.

Configure LibreOffice or OpenOffice

Whether your Linux distribution uses LibreOffice or OpenOffice, configuring your office

suite of choice to work with these fonts is easy. If you’ve installed them using any of the

instructions above, they’ll already be available to use. If either office suite was open as you

installed the fonts, you may have to first close the office suite and re-open it. The fonts will

appear as options in the Fonts dropdown box, so you can use them like any other font.

Open a Microsoft Office document created using these fonts and LibreOffice or

OpenOffice will automatically use the appropriate fonts. They’ll display the document as it was

intended to look, Microsoft fonts and all.

If you’d like to change your default fonts for new documents, click Tools > Options >

LibreOffice Writer or OpenOffice Writer > Basic Fonts (Western). Your office suite of choice

will use Microsoft’s fonts as the default fonts in future documents if you choose them here.

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions actually include Red Hat’s “Liberation Fonts” and use

them by default in their office suites. These fonts were designed to substitute for Arial, Arial

Narrow, Times New Roman, and Courier New. They have the same widths as Microsoft’s

popular fonts. If you open a document written with Times New Roman, the appropriate

Liberation font will be used instead so the flow of the document won’t be interrupted. However,

these fonts don’t look identical to Microsoft’s fonts. The Liberation project also doesn’t provide

fonts designed to match the width of Calibri and Microsoft’s other newer ClearType fonts. If

you’re a Linux user that wants the best Microsoft Office compatibility possible, you should

install Microsoft’s fonts.

3. How to share files between 2 ubuntu computers?

If you have two computers running Ubuntu on the same network, it could be an good idea

to use openssh to share files between them.

sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

Then you need to figure out the ip of each the computer you want to connect to. Most of

the time it’s something like 192.168.1.2 or something in that line.

On the computer you want to access the files from, go to “File -> Connect to Server”.

Service type should be “SSH”"

Server should be the “ip” adress of the pc where the info is on. Port, enter “22″

Pick the folder you wish to share (could take some time to connect depending on the size

of the folder).

The user name of the pc you are connected to The bookmark will be the name of the folder

in nautilus After that you’ll get a windows where you have to enter a password. That

would be the password of the pc you are trying to connect to.

You should have read/write permissions.

4. How to listen Music?

Because of licensing issues, Ubuntu is unable to play MP3s out of the box. We’ll show

you how to play MP3s and other restricted file formats in about four mouse clicks.

The philosophy behind Ubuntu is that software should be free and accessible to all.

Whether MP3 and other file formats are free is unclear in many countries, so Ubuntu does not

include software to read these file formats by default.

Fortunately, it does include a package that installs the most commonly used file formats

all at once, including a Flash plugin for Firefox.

Note: These instructions are for Ubuntu 10.04. There are small differences for earlier versions of

Ubuntu.

Play MP3 Files

Open the Ubuntu Software Center, found in the Applications menu.

Click on View and ensure that All Software is selected.

Type “restricted extras” into the search box at the top-right. Find the Ubuntu restricted

extraspackage and click Install.

Enter your password when prompted.

Once the install is complete, close out of Ubuntu Software Center, and you’ll be able to play

MP3 files! To confirm this, we’ll open up Rhythmbox, found in the Sound & Video section of

the Applications menu.

Our test MP3 plays with no problems!

Note: If Rhythmbox tells you that MP3 plugins are not installed, close Rhythmbox and reopen it.

You should not have to install anything extra through Rhythmbox.

Despite this extra step, playing the most common audio and video file formats – including Flash

videos on the internet – is simple. All the software comes installed, you just have to teach them

how to read your files.

5. How to edit photos?

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and

Mac-OSX. It can be used by Photographers to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and

share photographs under Linux systems.

You can easily install it using command:

sudo apt-get install digikam

6. Install Skype & Other Must-Have Apps

Ubuntu offers a small but capable crop of apps by default, ranging from big names like

LibreOffice and Firefox to lesser known tools like Totem and Shotwell. Great though they may

be they might not be your favourites.

The Ubuntu Software Centre offers up thousands of free applications to install, including:

Steam – Game distribution platform

GIMP – Advanced image editor

VLC – Popular media player

Geary – Desktop email client

Chromium – open-source web-browser

Skype – VOIP service

You’ll also find a wealth of awesome software available outside the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Some notable apps include:

Google Chrome – Web-browser with built-in, up-to-date Flash for Linux

Spotify for Linux Preview – Official Linux app for popular streaming music service

Corebird – Desktop Linux Twitter client

Lightworks Free – Professional nonlinear video editor

Viber – Skype alternative with free mobile apps

Vivaldi – Developer orientated web-browser based on Chromium.