How to Find the Most Memory taking process in Ubuntu Linux

Some Times system administrators need to kill the memory eater process. When your system become slower, check the following command and find the memory eater.


Open a terminal and Type the following command

#ps aux | sort -nrk 4 | head

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How to Enable Multimedia Support (MP3, Mpeg4, Divx, 3gp, avi) in Fedora 13

How to Enable Multimedia support in Fedora 13

By default fedora will not support MP3, AVI, Divx, 3gp, Mpeg4 etc.

Simply you can add this features in Fedora 13


Open a terminal and become root or Login as root user, then run this command:



# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Install all other plug-ins

# yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg

After successful installation you can rum MP3 files


You can install Popular Media VCD/DVD Player with MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs Support by using the following command


# yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss

Doing this will also install a number of support libraries, including the libdvdcss plugin

Install Popular VLC Player in Fedora 13 by using the following
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install vlc


XMMS
Try the following for install xmms and make it MP3-capable

# yum install xmms xmms-mp3

How to install Download Manager - Multiget - in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid

MultiGet is an easy-to-use GUI  download manager for ubuntu / debian linux. It is Look and work like famous windows download manager flashget.

It supports resuming downloads,  It supports HTTP/FTP protocols . It supports multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server. You can reconfigure   the thread number without stopping the current task.

MultiGet runs natively on Linux, and it supports multiple operating system too.  It was tested on many system such as : Windows XP, ubuntu ,kubuntu, xubuntu, Fedora, opensuse, mandriva, MEPIS , PCLinuxOS, CentOS, Puppy,  FreeBSD, MacOS etc.

MultiGet is available from Ubuntu universe respository

Howto Install in Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install multiget

or you can use Synaptic Package Manager

How to Install XBMC MediaPlayer in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox.
Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available.

How to Install XBMC MediaPlayer in Ubuntu 10.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc-standalone

How to Install extra screensavers with XScreensaver in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx"

XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for X11 containing more than 200 screen savers.  This package is used by both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver.

To install XScreensaver open  Synaptic Package Manager  and type xscreensaver in the search field. Mark xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl-extra and xscreensaver-data-extra for installation and click on the Apply button.

or

$sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

How to Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

 
 
How to Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
 
First You have to Download the package  

For 32-bit
$ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32
For 64-bit
$ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64 
Install The following Libraries 
libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2
 $sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2
 
Now Install the pckage
 
$ sudo dpkg -i skype-XXXXXXXXXXXX.deb
 
If you have any error due to dependency Problem  do the following   
 
$ sudo apt-get -f install