Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Installing the lastest Freemind under Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Add the repository for Freemind:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following lines # freemind source

deb http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ experimental/
deb-src http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ experimental/

Install from the repository:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freemind

Alternatively, you can use synaptic.
Starting Freemind

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/bin/ freemind

To start it next time from terminal without setting vars
In another terminal set JAVA related variables in the profile.

echo export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/ >> ~/.bashrc
echo export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/bin/ >> ~/.bashrc

Original article:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Freemind

Installing Microsoft Fonts

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Very easy, the only thing you need to do is to install the msttcorefonts package, which is available in “Universe” repositories.

This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory.

After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts.

Original article: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/installing-microsoft-fonts/

How to enable smooth fonts

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Create a file named .fonts.conf

Past the following into the file and save it.

<?xml version=”1.0” ?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM
“fonts.dtd”>

<fontconfig>

<match target=”font”>

<edit name=”autohint”
mode=”assign”>

<bool>true</bool>

</edit>

</match>

</fontconfig>

You’ll have to log out and back in to see the difference.

Original article: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_enable_smooth_fonts