Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Kubuntu Gutsy with Wine 0.9.54

Supposedly Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 now works on any Linux distribution using Wine. Here is how I made it work on my machine:

1. Open a terminal and paste the following commands one by one – hit ENTER after each one .

• wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
• sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
• sudo apt-get update

2. If you do not have Wine installed already, go to Add/Remove and search for Wine and install it. If Wine is already installed simply use the updates available in the systray.

3. Hit ALT+F2 and paste the following command:

• wine iexplore http://appdb.winehq.com/

Install it.

4. Search on Google for the Tahoma font with the following string:

• tahoma filetype:ttf

Save it on your desktop, then move it to the Wine fonts folder (full path -> /home/yourusername/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts).

5. Adobe Photoshop CS2 is now ready to be installed.

This is ofc not legal everywhere (anywhere?) so I don’t know if I should be typing this but here is a working Adobe Photoshop CS2 – Link (torrent)

configure: error: Can’t find X includes.

Many times I run in to this and always have to check the net for a fix cause I never remember it so now I’m going to be smart which took me few times of stupidity and type it down here.

Error:

checking for X…
configure: error: Can’t find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!
Error during sources configuration. Installation aborted!

Fix:

sudo apt-get install kdebase-dev

Kubuntu Gutsy: Privacy Cleaning

The KDE Control Center offer ways to clean privacy, In case you hadn’t noticed. The following screen captures tells 3 different ways how to.

Adding the WineHQ APT Repository and upgrading

I noticed my installation of Wine was not the newest version anymore. To add the Wine respository is a good way to keep up in upgrades. The instruction is available at the Wine HQ on this link:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb 

Kubuntu Gutsy – Problem change Login Theme

Alternative way to change login theme. When the KDM Theme Manager does not work.

1. Alt + F2, type in kdesu konqueror and hit Run.
2. Search your way to this path: /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes.
3. Backup the folder Kubuntu by renaming it to for example kubuntubackup.
4. Unzip a theme, name the folder Kubuntu and place it in /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes.

Open the KDM Theme Manager and see if the theme is there and selected.

1600 x 1200 Wallpapers

I’m preparing to reinstall my Kubuntu Gutsy, thereamong includes saving of files and I am thinking that I am not going to have to burn a CD with my stuff so instead I am saving links and have created a folder with wallpapers online that I thought I would share here. In the format 1600 x 1200 you will find 25 or so wallpapers if you click on the image below which is of one of the walls.

The credit should of course go to the respective creators.

Color Schemes for KDE

Here follows a few links to color schemes for KDE that I find likable.

• Pure Technology
• DarkStik
• CleanStik
• DarkNights
• Baghira Verde Olivo 0.3
• WaSP
• Aqua
• Ultra – Dark color scheme + Baghira style
• Orange Grey
• Pink

How to install color schemes in Kubuntu Gutsy:

• I believe that by default is the KDE Control Center not linked to in the menu. Perhaps I am remebering it all wrong but if you do not have it in the menu right click on the menu icon on the panel and select Menu Editor and view the capture below.

• Under Appearance & Themes are Colors found. When Colors are selected there is an Import Scheme option where to import themes from your computer. More difficult than that it’s not.

A Software that do the Compiling for you.

I have used Kompile a while now and it works well. What is does is to handle ./configure make & install, instead of you doing it manually.

More information about the software is available on the DL page:
KDE APPS – Kompile

PluginPack for Pidgin

Always thought that the default plug-in selection with Pidgin was a bit too minimal but here is a PluginPack with no less than 51 plug-ins.

I couldn’t tell you which repository made this possible for me but you could give it a try. Just copy and paste the following into the console of your choice:

sudo apt-get install pidgin-plugin-pack

AWN Comic Strips

Comics are always fun.