Ubuntu on VMWare as guest OS

VMWare is not so difficult to use, so I am not going to explain it.

Just give a few getting start tips.

If you are not sure about those setting, here is what you can try

1. virtual harddisk use SCSI adapter setting.

2. network use bridged setting.

3. add usb and audio by device wizard.

Once you are in your guest OS, two hot-key your must know:

1. ctrl+alt to get your input device out from the guest OS.

2. ctrl+alt+enter to shift to full screen and get back.

After these, you may find your mouse scroll not working.

Here is what you do:

run this in terminal : $ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Find Option “Protocol” “PS/2″ and change it to “IMPS/2″

then restart X windows by ctrl+alt+backspace.

Enjoy~

install Flash plugin on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn AMD64

I just want to watch youtube on my ubuntu linux.

but then I found out it is troublesome on 64bit ubuntu.

Here is the steps I follow on some tutorial online and it works.

First of all, you have to turn on some repository.

double click ./etc/apt/sources.list and turn on two Edgy repository.

And then run this command in terminal to get those 32bit libs

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk linux32 lib32asound2

and then install nspluginwrapper to wrap the 32bit flash plugin.

you can get it by adding repository from here http://www.janvitus.netsons.org/repository/

and then run this command

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper gsfonts-x11

Next, download Flash player from Adobe here.

untar it, moves the 2 files “libflashplayer.so” and “flashplayer.xpt” from that folder into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

run the last command

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

copy the file which we have just generated npwrapper.libflashplayer.so from

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

Now you can enjoy youtube on AMD64 bit Ubuntu. ^^