Monday, September 29, 2014

Add "open in terminal" to your nautilus file manager in Ubuntu

Terminal is a very powerful tool in Linux. Fast, accurate and easy to use. You can navigate through your entire system using your terminal. For example if we want to install any packages it's easy, if we want to got to a particular directory or path, of course we can! But there are times we do not want to type a big 'cd' command to navigate to a specific place in our system. Do not worry, with the help of this nautilus's add-on we can directly open terminal without entering a command, but just by a right click! This is called "open in terminal" shortcut. Here's how to add it to your nautilus file manager.

Steps:

Open your terminal and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

Enter your sudo password and that's it, this new feature will get installed. To use it you just need to restart your nautilus as follows:

Monday, September 1, 2014

Install Microsoft online applications in Ubuntu

One of the few things that's stopping people from using linux is Microsoft Ofiice. A guy named Dejan Petrovic released a non-official version of Microsoft Online Applications, using which we can do whatever we can do with MS Office, but online for now! Something is better than nothing right! Okay here's how to install them.

Steps: Open terminal and enter following commands:

wget atareao.es/downloads/varios/microsoft_online_apps.deb

sudo dpkg -i microsoft_online_apps.deb

Just open your dash and you will find your apps there! Amen!