Howto Ubuntu

Notes about installing and setup of various apps and features in Ubuntu.

• Mediawiki setup
• Mysql notes
• Octave setup
• Trac setup
• OpenOffice setup

• ssh with a private-public key
• svn notes - Subversion
• SciTe notes - the lightweight programmers editor
• simpleproxy - Simple TCP proxy for linux

• XMMS setup for Ubuntu 8.04 and up - from source
• XMMS setup for Ubuntu Hardy - from deb.

Other nice external links and howto-s

• ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy

In short:
$ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server
Then set in Firefox to use a SOCKS proxy: “localhost", port 9999

• Acroread on Ubuntu

• Check the ports and apps listening on them:

netstat -lnptu