Well, today they finally released the new version of 8.04, Hardy Heron. It is a LTS release, and I encourage you to all download it. Please, please, please, use the Torrents. The download servers will be crawling for a few days so if you download using torrents, it will help us all. Help out your fellow downloaders and do not close your program after they download. Here are the links:
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Gourmet has finally been added to the repositories as of Ubuntu 9.04, so check out my modified instructions to install it in a much easier way.
Since recently becoming vegan, I have found it important to make it easier to save recipes. I knew I could make a database in OOo Base, but that seemed difficult and more work than I was willing to do. I searched through the package manager and found KRecipes and anymeal, but both are for the KDE environment. In the interest of keeping my system GNOME only, I decided to search further. A quick look on Sourceforge found a few promising choices, but the best was a program called Gourmet. If you want to install this, understand that you will be installing a DEB from outside the Ubuntu repositories and it could harm your system. It worked fine for me, but I cannot guarantee it will for you. If you want to install Krecipes or anymeal if you're using Kubuntu, or if you just don't want to use software outside of the repositories, I will give those instructions as well.
Verify you have the universe repositories enabled.
Open Konsole, or the terminal of your choice.
Type (or Copy/Paste) the following into your terminal:
sudo aptitude install krecipes krecipes-data
Run the program.
Verify you have the universe repositories enabled.
Open Konsole, or the terminal of your choice.
Type (or Copy/Paste) the following into your terminal:
sudo aptitude install anymeal
Run the program.
Open the Terminal.
Type (or Copy/Paste) the following into your terminal:
sudo apt-get install gourmet
Open the Terminal.
Type (or Copy/Paste) the following into your terminal:
sudo apt-get install python-reportlab python-pysqlite2
Type (or Copy/Paste) the following into your terminal:
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/grecipe-manager/gourmet_0.13.4-1_all.deb
Type (or Copy/Paste) the following into your terminal:
sudo dpkg -i gourmet_0.13.4-1_all.deb
Run the program.
Figure 1: Gourmet Recipe Manager working under Ubuntu
Figure 2: A recipe in Gourmet Recipe Manager
I hope this helps some of us out there who are not only Ubuntu Linux fans, but budding chefs as well.
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Well, first off, welcome to my newest - and only currently published - blog I have. A little bit about myself: First, I am Justin Miller and have been using computers now for a little over twelve years. I pretty much knew when I got my first PC in 1994 (I had used a Commodore 128 prior to this) that I had found my calling in life.
The computer I started out on was a Gateway 2000 486sx with 16mb of RAM and a whopping 512 MB hard drive. It also ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11. My first foray into the online world was on a Bulletin Board Service (BBS) which I joined in the summer of 2005 before the World Wide Web became a hit. I was really active in one BBS in particular, and was a junior SYSOP before it finally closed its doors in 1999.
My first time on the Internet was sometime in 1996. Time Warner Cable had begun a test marketing for a new high-speed ISP called RoadRunner in my area and I was one of the first ones to get it. I started making web pages after I started looking at what was underneath, as well as learning about email, the WWW, FTP, and newsgroups. Suffice to say, I am pretty much self-taught on almost all of my computer knowledge.
It was also in the year 1996 that I built my first computer from the Motherboard up. It was an AMD-based system and I was pretty proud of myself for it. I used it throughout my high school years, and when I began college in the fall of 1998 majoring in computer engineering, I had received a new Dell for my HS graduation gift. Long story short, I still have that Dell, and have given it a few upgrades throughout the years. I don't actually use it anymore and really only keep it because of its high initial cost and the fact that I have full replacement value on my renter's insurance policy.
For reasons that don't need to be named here, I never wound up graduating college, and in 2000, I began work in a reputable shipping firm as a senior level tech support representative and was employed by them until mid-2001 when the economy crashed. I jumped from job to job with only a year and a half of professional experience, no degree, and no industry certifications under my belt. Finally in 2003, I joined the US Army, where I am currently working as a Network Administrator at a battalion level. In this position, I've learned how to use Cisco switches and routers, effectively troubleshoot systems, and got my first taste of Linux with Solaris and Red Hat. I also began college again, and am now three semesters away from graduating, this time with a degree in MIS.
Throughout the years, I have always used Windows, from WFW 3.11 through XP (skipping over NT4 and ME). I had always wanted to try out Linux for myself, but never found a distribution that I was comfortable with. I found out through Slashdot about a distro called Ubuntu in early 2007, and gave it a look, finally installing it in June of this year, dual-booting with XP. I have been completely impressed by it, I have had only a few qualms, such as the near-impossibility to install drivers for my WiFi (though from reading, that appears to be no longer an issue in 7.10), and I am looking forward to the day I can have a system that is completely open source. There are still Windows-proprietary things I need for my classes that I will eventually try to get working in Wine, but until then I have to remain a dual-user.
I have recently become an activist for Open Source software. Except for Windows and iTunes, I am using open source programs such as Firefox & OpenOffice.org in lieu of MS Office or Internet Explorer. I encourage others to use Open Source software. As for what this blog is about, I hope to share with you my experiences in using Ubuntu, any tips, tricks, and tweaks I find out, reviews of books on Linux (specifically Ubuntu), and any other stuff about Open Source I can find out that I think will help. I will try to update it at least once a week.
Once again, welcome. I hope you have as good a time reading this as I did writing it.
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