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Ubuntu : VIM with syntax
Mar 19th
Default VIM does not come up with syntax highlighting , To enable syntax highlight use the following commands ,
sudo apt-get install vim-full vim-runtime
Open vim rc configuration file
sudo vi /etc/vim/vimrc
& add the following ,
syntax on
Ubuntu : Firefox Flash Support
Mar 17th
Most of us will face the problem with flash support in all Ubuntu firefox versions. This following shell script ( got it from Internet – Credits to the Unknown author ) will fix the problem of flash support in Ubuntu Firefox.
echo "Closing Firefox" sudo killall -9 firefox echo "Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries" wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb echo "Removing previous installs of flash:" sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper echo "Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper" sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper echo "Getting libs" sudo getlibs -p libcurl3 sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d echo "Installing Flash Player 10" cd ~ wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/ echo "Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them." sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ echo "Done :-)" echo "You may re-start Firefox now"
How to Download Megavideo Videos
Dec 28th
There are lot of sites offering the downloads from megavideo site.But most of the time , it won’t work because of frequent changes from megavideo.com site owners.
This is the permenant way of downloading megavideo videos:
You need the following tools
+ FireFox ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ )
+ Firebug ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 )
+ Megavideo Link ( ex : http://megavideo.com/?v=FC9KQNF4 )
Step 1 : If you not installed Firebug , install it .
Step 2 : Open megavideo link with Firefox
step1-megavideo
Step 3 : Open the firebug console and enable Net .
Step 4 : The page will refresh and load all contents once again. once the page loaded goto
Firebug – > net – > all and click clear
Step 4 : Now Click the play button on megavideo site .
Step 5 : You can see the download url . copy paste the url to new window .
Thats it . You can able to download any video in FLV format. Use any FLV player to view the files offline .
Enjoy ..
Thanks,
Umakanthan