Note: This tutorial is written based on actual processes done on Ubuntu 10.04. This tutorial can also be used to install Dreamweaver on other distros like Fedora and Mint etc.

Here’s how:

1. You need to have Wine installed on your Ubuntu. To find out how to install Wine, read this.

2. After completing the installation of Wine, download “wintricks” by typing this in your Terminal:sudo wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

3. In order to make Dreamweaver CS4 install successfully on your Ubuntu via Wine, you need to download and install few windows based dependencies. This is the reason why we downloaded winetricks in previous step. winetricks will download those dependencies with a simple command, making it easy to install those dependencies. Type:sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 ie6 dcom98This will start downloading those dependencies and will run a setup program after each files are downloaded. Just install all those setups that it prompts you to do so. This might take time depending on the speed of your Internet.

4. Now download atmlib.dll file and move it to system32 folder in your Wine’s C:wget http://www.noob2geek.com/wp-content/uploads/files/atmlib.dllsudo mv atmlib.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/Or download it manually from here and copy paste it to Applications > Wine > Browse C: Drive > windows > system32

   If everything goes perfect, it will ensure that your Wine is now ready to install Dreamweaver on it.

5. Pop-in your Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 CD/DVD and open the Terminal and change the path to your drive. Or better copy the installation files to your Documents folder and put it a another folder named Dreamweaver CS4.

cd Documents/Dreamweaver CS4

Now make sure the main setup file lies directly within Dreamweaver CS4 folder and run this command:

wine setup.exe

6. After installing, you can run it from Applications > Wine > Programs

Note: The name of the setup file may vary. It can be setup.exe or some other.

Important: If you already have Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 installed on your windows installation, skip Step 5 and run the Dreamweaver.exe file directly from the installed directory by browsing through the C: in wine.

That’s it. If you come across any problem during the process, do let me know in the comments.

Hard Links

While concerned about electronics and computer theory, a hard link is a reference to the inode number of the file. An inode number itself is the reference to the structure of the file on the hard drive.

A hard link is a pointer to the inode of a file. In other words, the inode number of both the original file entry and its hard link will be the same. Whatever changes you make to a file, including relocation of the file and removal will reflect across all the hard links of that file. Almost all POSIX compliant operating systems support multiple hard links to the same file.

. Quoting from the The Free Dictionary, an inode (hard link) is:

A data structure holding information about files in a Unix file system. There is an inode for each file and a file is uniquely identified by the file system on which it resides and its inode number on that system. Each inode contains the following information: the device where the inode resides, locking information, mode and type of file, the number of links to the file, the owner’s user and group ids, the number of bytes in the file, access and modification times, the time the inode itself was last modified and the addresses of the file’s blocks on disk.

So, if you give a command like,

ls -i myFile.txt

It will display the inode number (a unique number identifying each file on the hard drive) of myFile.txt. So, when you create a hard link by

ln -i myFile.txt myLink.txt

Then a hard link  called myLink.txt is created which refers to the inode of the file myFile.txt. You can check the inode of both the original file and the hard link my ls -i command as described above. The number will be same. Any changes you make across any hard link of a file will also be reflected in the original file as well.

Directories are files, so multiple hard links to directories are possible; however, their unrestricted creation is usually avoided, because of the cyclic structures this may create. Hence we generally use symbolic or soft links for directory linking.

Symbolic Links

In essence, a symbolic link is the pointer to the pointer of a file or directory. It merely lists the file/directory name to be accessed by the link. What is means is, unlike in case of Hard links, which only create the pointer for the inode of original file, the symbolic links generate a new inode which points to the inode of the original file or directory.

You can create symbolic links by issuing,

ln -s myFile.txt myLink.txt

You can now check the inode of the original file and the link of that file – myLink.txt – and see that the inode number of both files is not the same.

In general, hard links cannot point to directories, they cannot be pointed to files outside the current logical volume/partition and unlike symbolic links, they are updated when a source is moved or removed.

Example

Let’s consider an example now. The most frequent use of symbolic links that comes to my mind is while using MPD (Music Player Daemon). Generally we set a directory with all out music files as the main database root and then MPD searches recursively in all subdirectories for audio files and builds a database. Most users, like me, want to organize their music in some peculiar way. So, making multiple actual copies of the music on the hard drive wastes a lot of unnecessary space. The answer – symbolic links.

I have ~/Music listed as my main Music directory which MPD scans and plays music from. Now, if I have downloaded Sophomore Jinx – a wonderful instrumental album by Rob Costlow released under CC – and it’s in ~/Downloads directory.

I now have 2 options, one is to stop seeding this album and move it to ~/Music directory for MPD to index it OR, I can create a symbolic link to this album in the Music directory. The second option is obviously better one and I can do it with simple command as,

ln -s /home/aditya/Downloads/Sophomore\ Jinx/ /home/aditya/Music/

And that’s it, as long as the file permissions allow execution and access to the file (755 is good enough) then MPD can index this album via the symbolic link created in ~/Music directory.

OKay, I admit I went a bit too far here. We will concentrate on installing Windows applications on Linux in this tutorial. You will need following things

• A computer with Ubuntu Linux installed (Any Linux distribution would be fine, but this tutorial is based on Ubuntu 10.04).
• Administrative (root) access.
• Internet access.
• Moderate to Lower-High patience

Now, we will first be installing the application called Wine. Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Think of it as an open source implementation of the Microsoft API (Application Program Interface).

Unless the program you wish to install is a peculiar one, you probably will not face problems with Wine, however, it’s still best to check with the Wine database at appdb.winehq.org and check the status just in case.

Installing Wine

Once you have satisfied yourself we can move on to installation of Wine on Ubuntu. Open the Software Sources menu by going to System > Administration > Software Sources. Then select the Third Party Software tab and click Add.

Installing Wine on Ubuntu

Click on Add Source, refresh the package list and then head over to Applications ? Add/Remove and search for Wine and install it. Alternatively, you can also do this from the command line by

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

Whichever method you opt for, install Wine because that’s what we are here to do.

Configuring Wine

Before using Wine, it is necessary to create the pseudo C:\ drive where your Windows applications will be installed. Enter Wine configuration mode by issuing following command on your machine,

winecfg

You can also select the Configure Wine option in the Applications ? Wine menu. This will create the .wine directory in your home directory. This is used to store all the configurations and the pseudo C drive. It also contains a bunch of other things including but not limited to the registry structure like that in Windows, configurations settings like the Windows version to be emulated, DLL overrides and specific memory related settings. We don’t need to go into the details of those at this moment.

Installing Applications

To install Windows applications with Wine, follow the instructions below,

1. Download the Windows application you wish to install and place it in a convenient directory.
2. Open the terminal on your system.
3. Change to the directory where the application installer is located.
4. Issue the command wine followed by the name of the application to install it.

e.g.:

wine someApplication.exe

Remember to give the full name of the application along with the extension.

Running the Wine applications

Most application installed via Wine will end up in a special Wine menu in your main menu and you can directly launch those applications from there.

Uninstalling the applications

To uninstall the applications, open up a terminal and type “uninstaller” – this will open up a program which lets you uninstall applications from Wine. Running uninstall programs directly via Wine should also work normally. Alternatively, you could also simply delete the folder of the application but it leaves traces of that application behind in the registry and other configuration files.

That’s it for now folks. We will take a look at Wine configuration in detail in our future posts.

Here are the features Ubuntu-Tweak:

• View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
• GNOME Session Control
• Auto Start Program Control
• Quick install popular applications
• A lot of third-party sources to keep applications up-to-date
• Clean unneeded packages or cache to free disk space
• Show/Hide and Change Splash screen
• Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes
• Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash or Network icon
• Tweak Metacity Window Manager’s style and behaviour
• Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effect Settings, Menu Effect Setting
• Set the Shortcuts to archive quicker access your favourite applications
• GNOME Panel Settings
• Nautilus Settings
• Advanced Power Management Settings
• System Security Settings
• And many other in process…

How to installing Ubuntu Tweak:

Installing Ubuntu Tweak is really an easy process since it provides debian package for installation and it weighs just under 1 MB. Just download the file, open it and install it.

Download Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4.1

Or visit the Homepage of Ubuntu Tweak to download the latest version.

After installing Ubuntu Geek, go to Applications > System Tools > Ubuntu Tweak

Here are few screenshots of various features of Ubuntu Tweak:

Welcome page:

Application Center:

GNOME Settings:

Compiz Settings:

Auto Start Programs:

I hope you found this post useful and helped you configure your Ubuntu easily with this app. Let me know your thoughts in comments.

I never liked Ubuntu much, and it seems many people are complaining against it saying that the move to have the buttons at the left hand side (close, maximize, minimize) like we have in Apple OS was a bad one. People find the sudden shift hard to come to terms with.

Tell you what, it’s extremely easy to move the buttons back to the right hand side. All you need is a bit of configuration tweaking from Gnome Configuration Editor and you are done. To begin, open gconf-editor. Either type it in terminal and hit enter or press Alt+F2 and run it from there.

Once you open gconf-editor, navigate to

/apps/metacity/general

You can see the top class ‘app‘ in the left hand pane. Now navigate to the path mentioned above. Then, in the right hand pane, change the value of the key button_layout from

close,minimize,maximize:menu

to

menu:minimize,maximize,close

You can either right click the key value and edit it, or just double click it and start typing. Once you have changed the value, hit the enter key and that’s it. All the windows will now have buttons on the right.

There is still one problem however, as you can see, the graphics used for the buttons are not the same for all 3 buttons, so they look a bit weird. You can either change the theme, or change the graphics for the buttons to get a smoother blending.

(As I mentioned, I don’t use Ubuntu, thank you Santhosh for providing me with all the necessary screenshots).

With Mondo Rescue, it’s possible to take progressive backups and snapshots of your hard-drive, making is extremely easy and less time consuming. Mondo Rescue can be used to take backups or snapshots, save them to a verity of media like DVD, Hard-Drive, USB drives, NFS shares, tapes; which later can be used to read from and restore partitions quickly. It also supports a number of file-systems including LVM 1/2, RAID, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, VFAT.

To install Mondo Rescue on Ubuntu, either manually download the deb file from here. Or, add it as a repository in Synaptic. Alternatively, you can install it from debian repositories with a simple

$aditya@archie:/>apt-get install mondo mondo-doc

And you’re done. Launch it by issuing mondoarchive command.

Taking Snapshot

• Mondo Rescue UI is a TUI (Text User Interface) built using nCurses.
• You will first be presented with an option asking you for selecting the place to store backups.
• Upon selecting the option you will be asked to set the compression level.
• Leave it at average.
• Then you will be asked to select the directory(ies) you want to back up.
• Leaving it to root will backup entire system except /tmp, /proc, /sys (obviously).
• You can add multiple paths with spaces in between.
• Then you will be asked if you wish to exclude any directories.
• Similar to previous case, add multiple paths with space in between.
• Leave this field blank if you do not want to exclude any directory.
• Most Ubuntu users should say yes on next screen about the kernel. Unless you have built one yourself.
• Next, Mondo will ask if you wish to verify the backed up data. Chose an option you want though verifying is always better.
• Backup process with begin now. There are a lot of things Mondo will do (including calling Mindi for bootable media generation and disk image creation to keep backup compatible with your disk).
• It also catalogs your files for a neat compression and allocation.

The backup process will begin now. You can do whatever you want in this time. I advice against adding new files to the system during this period. This might actually be a good time to get that exercise routine you always had in mind.

Restoring Data

If you have completely toasted your Hard-Drive then restoring the computer is not very easy. You will have to boot from the media you backed your data on and then to a restore procedure. We won’t discuss it at this time cause it calls for its own different how-to. We will focus on the part where you can boot your computer, maybe you have wiped some partition and want to restore it. To do that, launch Mondo Rescue again and

• Chose the backup media.
• Press okay after you connect the media/insert CD/DVD/tape.
• Select the directories you wish to restore.
• Select where you want to restore the files.
• Sit back and wait till Mondo finished the restoring process.

And voila! You have your old system back, up and running in virtually no time.

Mondo Rescue is a good option to have for your data recovery needs. The act that it can also act as a backup manager is a major plus point. Being a console junkie, I love the nCurses based interface but it might turn a few users away. The multi CD/DVD support, tape support, ability to interact with abundance of file systems (including Windows file systems) makes Mondo Rescue a big player in the market. Apart from a few quirks with Windows backups, Mondo Rescue is quite good.

ImageMagick Basic Commands:

As already mentioned, ImageMagick comes with a set of tools which allow operating on images from the command line, saving a lot of time.

Convert: This is the basic command in ImageMagick. It can be used to convert one form of image into another.

$aditya@archie:/>convert image.jpg image.png

This is the most basic form of image conversion. It changes format of the image. You can also add a bunch of parameters, like

$aditya@archie:/>convert image.jpg -resize 75% image.png

to convert the image while reducing it’s size.

Mogrify: This tool is used for doing batch processing on images. This is similar to convert, except that when used without proper understanding, mogrify can destroy original image. Similar to convert, mogrify can be used to convert format of images. To convert all jpg images in a directory to png, issue following command in that directory.
$aditya@archie:/>mogrify -format png *.jpg
This command will create a png version of all the images in a directory. However, it will overwrite all png files with same name in that directory without any warning. This tool can be dangerous, so think before you use it. You can create thumbnails of all images using something like this,

$aditya@archie:/> mogrify -path thumb -thumbnail 100x100 *

This will create a 100px X 100px thumbnail of all images in current directory and place them in (already created) thumb subdirectory. You can resize all images using

$aditya@archie:/> mogrify -resize 800x600 *

This will keep proportions. To change the aspect ratio and resize image given size, add an exclamation mark (!) after the image size. Like, 800×600\!.  Happy conversion!

Though there is support for NTFS drives, they doesn’t get mounted automatically during the startup. You either need to mount it from Disk Utility or by just opening the drive. So to over come this issue and get your NTFS drives auto-mounted during the startup, you must install “NTFS Configuration Tool.”

To install NTFS Configuration Tool, open your Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

After it’s finished downloading and installing, go to System > Administration > NTFS Configuration Tool

Enter the password if it prompts. then tick “Enable write support for internal device” and choose the drives you want to get auto-mounted during startup. Click on close and you are done.

Now every time when you boot into you Ubuntu, you will have all your NTFS drives auto-mounted during the startup.

This method will work both for keyring with a password being set at some point of time by you and as well as default password being set without your knowledge. Follow the steps:

Step 1. If your keyring password is different from your login password, do this before you proceed to step 2, else skip this step.

a) Open your terminal and from navigate to:
cd .gnome2/keyrings/

b) Make sure there is a file called “default.keyring” in the directory by typing:
ls -l

c) Now remove the file by typing the below command:
rm default.keyring

Step 2: Open your terminal and follow these steps:

- Install libpam-keyring:
sudo apt-get install libpam-keyring

- Now to modify gdm login:
sudo gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm

- Now it will open an file, add this line at the end:
@include common-pamkeyring

That’s it. Now restart your Ubuntu and open any app that used to prompt you to enter keyring password. If you had done the above steps properly, it will now prompt you to set a new password. If you want to enter a new password, better set the same password as of your login password or just leave it empty if you totally want to get rid of keyring.

Finally after a long wait and 5 days of delay, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (LTS) is released officially by Canonical today. It was scheduled to be released on April 24th but was delayed due to some bug issues. However it has been fixed and is available for download. About 45 minutes before it’s official release, the link download page was leaked on #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel on freenode.

Ubuntu 10.04 boosts a whole lot of new features and design. The new look sports a dark theme, and is much better than earlier Human theme. Under the hood, Ubuntu 10.04 release is based on 2.6.32 Linux kernel and has X.org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 and the latest GNOME 2.30 desktop environment.

Getting social on Lucid Lynx is easier with it’s new “Me Menu”. It lets you update your social networks like Twitter and Facebook straight away from the menu, which is is really cool! The Me Menu also lets you connect to online chat accounts like Gtalk, Yahoo and AIM etc. See screenshot below:

Apart from these features, Ubuntu 10.04 comes with many interesting and useful applications bundled along with the download. Some of the applications are F-Spot for personal photo editing, Rythmbox Music Player, SimpleScan to scan your documents, GStreamer-based PiTiVi movie editor, Ubuntu One (now integrated to ubuntu itself) and the new Ubuntu One Music Store, this is similar to Apple’s iTune where you can purchase music.

Ubuntu’s new tagline: “Never a better time to switch” is 100% percent true! Below are some of it’s features and screenshots:

Browse the web
Ubuntu includes Mozilla Firefox – for fast, safe web browsing. You can also choose alternative open-source browsers from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Create professional documents and presentations
OpenOffice.org is fully compatible with Microsoft Office and has everything you need to create professional documents, spreadsheets and presentations. OpenOffice.org is easy to use, packed with the features you need and completely free.

Get free software
The Ubuntu Software Centre gives you instant access to thousands of free open-source applications. Browse software in categories including: education, games, sound and video, graphics, programming and office. Software is easy to find, easy to install and easy to remove.

Email and chat
Get chatting with Empathy. Quickly integrate your chat accounts from Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL, QQ and many more. Evolution Mail provides easy, intuitive email.

Social from the start
New in 10.04. Read and update your social networks instantly. Ubuntu’s new Me Menu lets you access your Facebook and Twitter accounts (and more) straight away. Connect to your chat channels and make updates through a single window. Being sociable has never been so easy.

Buy music while you listen
New in 10.04. Ubuntu’s new music player includes an integrated store, so you can buy and download new tracks with just a few clicks. And thanks to Ubuntu One’s file-sharing magic you can store your music online and listen to it from other computers and music players. Ubuntu works with most music and media players.

View, store and edit photos
Ubuntu is ready for all your gadgets. Connect your phones and cameras to download your pictures. You can organise your photos with F-Spot and use popular tools like Picasa, Facebook and Flickr. For advanced photo editing, find a free application from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Mobilise your digital life!
All Ubuntu users get a free Ubuntu One account. Ubuntu One allows you to store all kinds of files online so you can access them anywhere. Store bookmarks, contacts, music and pictures. Take everything everywhere with Ubuntu One.

Make, play and edit video
Watch all your favourite content from YouTube, iPlayer, and MSN Player. Play your own videos with Movie Player or use Pitivi to edit your videos

Start fast with Ubuntu
Ubuntu loads quickly on any computer, but it’s super-fast on newer machines. After loading, opening a browser takes seconds, unlike other operating systems that leave you staring at the screen, waiting to get online.

Choose from hundreds of free games
The Ubuntu Software Centre offers hundreds of games, including puzzles, adventures, tactical challenges and more. All free to choose and free to use.

Accessibility
At the core of the Ubuntu philosophy is the belief that computing is for everyone and access should be free and complete whatever your economic or physical circumstances. Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.

Download:

To download Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, visit this page.