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I thought about doing:

sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs gstreamer0.10-pitfdll w32codecs

Nothing!

Maybe:

sudo aptitude install totem-xine

Nope…

Maybe… then:

sudo aptitude install mplayer

Yesss… that worked! Too bad mplayer gnome integration looks like shit…

[edit]

Of course, this works beter: aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Try it!
[/edit]

This was a ha(n/r)dy guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51486

So because I am always losing with UT and keep blaming it on the poor performance of my laptop I was forced to optimise UT. After fiddling with new engines, I discovered that doesn’t make any difference at all.

I logged out of gnome and stopped gdm. With xinit I started a new X(org) server, ran UT and voila: much better performance. But this are waaaay to many steps so I created some scripts to do this for me.

I have two scripts:

ut
This runs wine and invoked the UT binary

newscreen
This runs a new xserver without gnome or anything.

I placed both scripts in ~/bin

UT:

#!/bin/bash
wine=`which wine`

$wine ~/.wine/drive_c/UnrealTournament/System/UnrealTournament.exe $*

newscreen:

#!/bin/bash

MINARGS=1
E_NOARGS=70
E_NOTEXE=71
EXECUTABLE=`which $1`

NR_OF_SCREENS=`pgrep -x Xorg |wc -l`
NEW_SCREEN=$(($NR_OF_SCREENS - 0))

if [ $# -lt $MINARGS ]; then
echo "You have to use at least 1 argument in the form of an executable"
exit $E_NOARGS
fi

if [ ! -x "$EXECUTABLE" ]; then
echo "The argument should be (the path to) an executable"
exit $E_NOTEXE
fi

xinit $* -- :$NEW_SCREEN  > /dev/null

I am especially proud of the newscreen command. I think it’s really nice. Especially because it counts the current number of running xservers. So if it’s only one (usually) it creates :1. If there are more it raises the number.

The commands are used like:

newscreen ut #start ut on a new :1 server
newscreen xclock #start xclock on :2

Nice eh?

I used the following resources to accomplish this:

• http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208426

First add an additional deb source for feisty packages. I did it like this:

touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list
echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse" >>  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list

Then you have to tell apt that feisty has preference for the firefox packages:

nano -w /etc/apt/preferences

And add this to the file:

Package: firefox
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: firefox-gnome-support
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

And the last thing to do:

aptitude install firefox

Make sure all of this is executed as sudo!

[edit]
They fixed this “problem”. You can now install firefox-2 instead of using this overlay stuff.

sudo aptitude install firefox-2 firefox-2-gnome-support

I fired up rhythmbox today to play my music. I pointed rhythmbox to my ~/Music directory and it index 10% of my songs. Huh? WTF!?

Apparently not all required codecs are installed eh? I didn’t want to search through documentation and what not, to find out what it was exactyle missing. So I did a:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

and all was peace again…

echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install acroread

Worked like a charm!