After having a thread go nowhere useful for a day and a half on the Mint forums, I decided to put my python background to use. The following steps are what I have done to install a working Software Center in Mint 9.
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Listening to Shoutcast internet radio in Ubuntu 10.04
With hundreds of online radio stations to choose from, Shoutcast is one the best ways to get music onto your PC. In this article we will take a look at how you can get access to Shoutcast in Ubuntu 10.04.
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Most popular Linux distros
Clearly Ubuntu is among the most popular Linux distributions, but which other versions of this operating system are proving popular with users? Looking at a number of online lists, including the popular Distrowatch site, a general idea of which Linux versions are most popular emerges.
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Google Chrome ‘Developer’ Builds for Linux, OS X Released
The Chromium blog (Chromium being Google’s name for the open source project behind their Chrome browser) reports that developer builds of Google Chrome are now available for both Mac OS X and Linux.
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Ubuntu One good enough to convert a Dropbox user?
Dropbox was one of the earlier companies to offer a commercial online, offsite backup and synchronisation service for home users. Now Canonical have released their own competing service call Ubuntu One. Both products have great support for Ububtu, so which should you choose?
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RAW Support (and more) For Your Canon Camera With CHDK
Canon's digital cameras, like all digital cameras, are really little computers. Certain features are enabled or disabled to justify different price points. It's all done in software, so the wizards of CHDK have created firmware to add new features (such as RAW support), and to do it safely without bricking your camera. Akkana Peck tells how in part one of this series
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 Delivers Stability and Security
Mozilla is updating its Firefox Web browser with new technology that is targeted at making the open source browser more stable. The Firefox 3.6.4 release also includes fixes for four critical security vulnerabilities.
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The Beginner Guide to Use GoogleCL
At some point, the people at Google, who brought you the Linux-based Android platform and the Summer of Code, decided that they still were not geeky enough. To resolve that gut feeling, they have released GoogleCL.
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iOS4 and Linux
You maybe wondering what the latest version of Apple's mobile OS has to do with Linux. As set out on this page, you can now connect your iPhone to your Linux box and sync music, back it up, add ringtones to it, and tether it.
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Customize the Web with Greasemonkey
If you're like me, then chances are you often run across websites that don't work quite as you would like. Wouldn't it be great if you could rewrite the Web to suit your tastes, for instance, change YouTube's color scheme or invert Google's color scheme to reduce eye fatigue?
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Cross platform interoperability importance to fade
Cross platform efforts to provide interoperability with Windows on Linux systems may cease to be of importance in future as the acceptance of alternative OSes widens, say industry watchers.
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Can’t wait till the latest version of digiKam appears in the official Ubuntu software repositories? You don’t have to: using the personal package archives (PPA) provided by the Launchpad service, you can install the latest release of digiKam with a few simple commands.
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Linux's old KDE 3 desktop lives!?
I love it. KDE 3.x, which has always remained my favorite Linux desktop interface, is making a come back. A tiny group of open-source developers from Pearson Computing is trying to bring KDE 3.x from the grave in a project that they're calling Trinity.
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Open source media player embraces HD
The VideoLAN project is shipping version 1.1 of its open source VLC media player, adding hardware acceleration, WebM support, and faster HD decoding, but deleting Shoutcast support. Meanwhile, several industry reports suggest possible reasons for Adobe's temporary suspension of its beta 64-bit Linux version of Flash.
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Make the most of your tablet with My Paint
If you use Linux, have a tablet (or a pen/tablet addon), and want a graphics tool designed specifically for that device, you need to take a look at My Paint.
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