Oh Shit, Ubuntu

Easy solutions for everyday problems

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xge/vimrc

My very own vimrc

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Surround Sound (5.1) with a CMI8788

Setting it to 5.1 in sound preferences (System Settings > Sound) was not enough. I had to manually uncomment the following line in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:

default-sample-channels = 6

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Installing packages for a specific architecture via apt

Simply append the target architecture, seperated by a colon (e.g. :i386), to the package name. Useful for installing 32bit libs on a 64bit OS.

Example:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libc6:i386

Yes, this was used to get Steam up and running.

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Spotify on Linux

Directly from their website. Works like a charm!

# 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by # editing your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free # 2. If you want to verify the downloaded packages, # you will need to add our public key sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59 # 3. Run apt-get update sudo apt-get update # 4. Install spotify! sudo apt-get install spotify-client

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Inverted mouse scrolling aka "Natural Scrolling"

Install zedtux/naturalscrolling

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zedtux/naturalscrolling sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install naturalscrolling

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Force apt to use IPv4

uncomment precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100 in /etc/gai.conf