My Experinece with Ubuntu 8.10
Monday, 16. February 2009, 18:06:54
Well here's what I have done with my Ubuntu 8.10 until now:
Persian Fonts:
Ubuntu supports pension language and you can simply add Persian keyboard layout from System → Administration → Language Support but the default Persian fonts are not sufficient and the Persian websites are not look as they should. So I found this and this for installing Persian fonts on my Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install ttf-farsiweb sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-arabic sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-european sudo apt-get install xfonts-intl-phonetic sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11 sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts wget -c http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fpf/fpf.zip wget -c http://hezardastan.sourceforge.net/persianfonts/tahoma.tar.gz wget -c http://hezardastan.sourceforge.net/persianfonts/bfonts.tar.gz sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-persian-fonts sudo unzip fpf.zip -d /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-persian-fonts sudo tar zxvf tahoma.tar.gz -C /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-persian-fonts sudo tar zxvf bfonts.tar.gz -C /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-persian-fonts sudo fc-cache -f -v
Turning on Clear Type Mode:
I like Clear Type mode in windows it makes fonts very smother. Can I have it in Ubuntu Linux? Yes! Here it is.
Spider Card Game and Golha Radio!:
My mother is another user of my desktop computer and she like to play “Spider” card game while listening to Golha Radio and I had to prepare her game in Ubuntu.
Firstly I found PySol and installed it via Synaptic Package Manager but although it has so many card games, I couldn't find a game exactly like Windows Spider! Hence I tried installing kpat (KPatience) and it was exactly the thing that made switching to Ubuntu possible! Anyways after playing with other fantastic Ubuntu games my mother doesn't play Spider anymore!!!
Installing Tor:
Its time to surf Internet freely!! And it was very straightforward: Install 'tor', 'privoxy' and 'torbutton-extention' from repository. Then you should configure privoxy as follow:
sudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
Add the following line at top of the file (don't miss the dot at the end of line):
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
Search for 'logfile logfile' and comment out the line.
Search for 'jarfile jarfile' and comment out the line.
After saving file restart the Privoxy service:
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
Now restart Firefox and you will see a red text in bottom right corner of Firefox saying:
Tor Disable. Enable tor by clicking text, it should turn to green and say Tor Enabled. Now you can surf the web freely
Problem with HP laserJet 1020:
The other day I noticed that my printer which is HP LaserJet 1020 doesn't work! I am sure it was working after installing Ubuntu but maybe after updating Ubuntu something made it ot of order! The problem was that it accepted print jobs and cleared them but nothing would happened! So I tried whatever came to my mind like testing it by another computer with windows XP (worked), reinstalling CUP, changing USB port etc. Nothing worked but google again proved me the first thing for solving a problem should be always googling!
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ emphatically says not to use the foo2zjs driver from the Ubuntu repository. Instead, they want you to download from their site and compile from source. So I did it and my printers started printing again
Share Printer on Network:
I wanted to share my Ubuntu printer so that my notebook with XP windows could print to it. And there was no problem at all: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingFromWinXP
Set Static IP Address:
Well lets set a static IP address for Ubuntu because it has shared the printer. Oops NetworkManager that provide so simplified Internet connection for me has a known problem with static IP address! Settings made in NetworkManager will not be applicable at the next restart. Ultimately if you assign a fixed IP address in NetworkManager, this setting will be forgotten the next reboot. There is a solution for it but it was not that much important for me so I just forget about it! Hopefully it will be fixed soon...
Merging Partitions in Ubuntu 8.10:
Getting addicted to Ubunto, I wanted to delete windows partition and add it to Ubuntu partition so I used GParted with live CD as GParted doesn’t resize mounted partitions so I had to first swapoff swap partition by “sudo swapoff –a” it is also possible by right clicking on swap partion in Gparted and choosing swapoff. Then deleting swap partion, Coping Ubuntu portion to have:
Ubunto Partition | unallocated space | Swap Partition
Then I could expand the Ubunto Partition.
Restarting Grub
Unfortunately after merging partitions the Grub returned error at start up so I tried restoring Grub from live CD by helping from here.
And now life is beautiful! I really like Ubuntu and I really like when I feel everything is under control!








