Ubuntu tips and tricks
Here you will find various tips and tricks for Ubuntu that I find useful. You will also find a link to my PPA and a short description of the packages that I have in my PPA.
HDAPS
You can find a guide to get hdaps and tp-smapi to work on an Lenovo ThinkPad T500
here. The guide should also work on at least an Lenovo ThinkPad T400. The guide is written to work with Ubuntu.
PPA
You can find my PPA at https://launchpad.net/~jonasped/+archive/ppa. I have these packages in my PPA because there are either bugs in the version found in Ubuntu, newer version is available or is simply missing from the official archive.i
Below is a list of packages that I currently have in my PPA.
hdapsd
This is an updated package. An updated version is required for it to work on newer Lenovo Thinkpad models like the T500. The package is available for Jaunty. You can find a setup guide
here.
DCC
This is
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses. The package is not available in Ubuntu Jaunty. I have packed it for Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic and made it available on my PPA.
GCstar
Newer version of
GCStar than the one availble in Intrepid and Jaunty. It can be used to track your movies, music and other types of media.
Gparted
Various bugfixes that did not make it into the Jaunty release.
Mdadm
Fixes a minor bug in mdadm package. The updated package is available for Jaunty.
Rawstudio
Rawstudio is an application to convert your RAW photos to various other formats. This is an updated version compared to the version available in Jaunty.
wireshark
This is an updated version compared to the one available in jaunty.
diffuse
This is a diff and merge tool written in Python and it is using GTK. The version in Jaunty is quite old compared to the latest release. I have put diffuse version 0.4.0 for both Jaunty and Karmic in my PPA. For Karmic version 0.4.1 is available as well.
notify-osd
I just updated my laptop to Lucid development release. Got tired of notify-osd having debug enabled. Only change in this package is to disable debug.
