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Upgrade Hydrogen in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope to v0.9.4rc1

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:43:20 +0000

I noticed that the kind developers of Hydrogen have posted an update for us at their website. This worked on Jaunty Jackalope for me. Also available are Windows binaries for Hydrogen that work in Vista.

You can install it by downloading from SourceForge using the commands below:

cd mkdir source cd source wget http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/hydrogen/hydrogen_0.9.4rc1_i386.intrepid.deb dpkg -i hydrogen_0.9.4rc1_i386.intrepid.deb

Of note, is more use of Qt4 elements with less eye candy on the skins, and questionably easier to interpret. I kind of feel it clashes, but the Instrument and drum kit editor have been combined. It means one less place to find things, and that is progress.

Hydrogen drum computer software running on Ubuntu Linux

Success Upgrading to Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:07:53 +0000

I’ve resisted too long. Finally I was coerced into it. After having spent a lot of time on a different project, I’ve tried to spend a little more time in KDE 4, and then Konqueror stopped working. It would give me a fatal error every time i tried opening. I found someone else reporting the error and it had been suggested to go ahead and upgrade KDE. I checked for new packages in Hardy Heron, but none were available. The upgrade from the run prompt using

kdesudo “adept_manager –dist-upgrade”

After a successful install on the machine that has the most packages, I chose to repeat on the other machines. Yay, I’m able to use Konqueror again.

I’ve also been very happy with some of the other improvements. While I was disappointed to see that KDE3 is missing, KDE4 now supports saving sessions and locking the terminal. Both were my biggest complaints aside from crashes.

Get Your Ubuntu and Kubuntu Stickers

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:34:30 +0000

In honor of the upcoming release of Intrepid Ibex, Bauer Power is returning Ubuntu or Kubuntu stickers to people who mail him a self-addressed stamped envelope. I mailed my request today! He said his mailbox was full. I wonder if he’s been able to fill all of the requests. I’d like to drop a note of thanks to him for this kind of gracious offer. Here’s another example of the fine people in the open-source software community.

Thanks Bauer Power!