Creating a Backup

It's Saturday and I am here at the office creating a backup of our backup site. :) Done installing all the needed packages and have fully configured Drupal and had restored our modules and its database. Done configuring the radius server but have not tested it yet. Done testing the scripts that runs rsync...

It's now 5:42pm and time to jog. :)

Installing GIMP 2.6.6 in Ubuntu 8.04

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a free opensource alternative software for Adobe Photoshop or CorelDraw Photopaint. For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty the latest GIMP version is 2.6.7 but for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy the latest suggested version is GIMP 2.6.6.

Here are the steps I have made to install GIMP 2.6.6 in Ubuntu 8.04:

1. Choose your right version of GIMP from this site GetDeb
   Download the following debian packages here:
   
   • gimp
   
   
   • libgimp2.0
   
   
   • gimp-data
   
   
   • libbabl-0.0-0
   
   
   • libgegl-0.0-0


2. Run a terminal application, go to Applications->Accessories->Terminal


3. Install the packages in the following order to avoid dependency problems:
   $ sudo dpkg -i libbabl-0.0-0_0.0.22-1~getdeb1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libgegl-0.0-0_0.0.18-1~getdeb1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libgimp2.0_2.6.6-1~getdeb1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i gimp-data_2.6.6-1~getdeb1_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i gimp_2.6.6-1~getdeb1_i386.deb

So there you have it, you now have installed the GIMP application in you Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron machine!

To run GIMP, go to Applications->Graphics->GIMP Image Editor.