A simple Python program to simplify control of the AcerHK radio's --- Wifi and Bluetooth. It enables users to turn on / off the Bluetooth and Wifi Radios. It depends on the AcerHK driver to function.
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One more improvement in jaunty is mozilla-gtk-vnc,mozilla-virt-viewer packages for firefox browser
mozilla-gtk-vnc
A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (mozilla plugin)It is built using coroutines, allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded. It supports RFB protocols 3.3 through 3.8 and the VeNCrypt authentication extension providing SSL/TLS encryption with x509 certificate authentication.
The core library is written in C and a binding for Python using PyGTK is available. The networking layer supports connections over both IPv4 and IPv6.This package contains the experimental mozilla plugin.
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Using apt (Advanced Packaging Tool) in Ubuntu
The Advanced Packaging Tool, which has since been ported by Conectiva for use with rpm and has been adopted by some other distributions.
The apt-get command is a powerful command-line tool used to work with Ubuntu's Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) performing such functions as installation of new software packages, upgrade of existing software packages, updating of the package list index, and even upgrading the entire Ubuntu system.
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When you try to install Guest Additions in Ubuntu 9.04 alpha6 . After executing the installer
sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run x11
You might see similar to the following error
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Dpkg is the Ubuntu package manager dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage Ubuntu packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is dselect.dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters,which consist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way.