Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Play music in terminal console

There are lot of options around to play music ,but playing music in terminal console in uniq.
lot of utilities are available on Linux to do same work but you will enjoy to work with this utility named-
Mp3Blaster so lets start with this simple tutorial .( detailed manual )
mp3blaster
 Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows. This does not limit the way you can control the player whilst playing though; just like any graphical mp3 player, there are cd-style buttons like play, stop, pause, next track, etc.

steps are bellow-

  • open terminal (internet connection needed)
  • sudo apt-get install mp3blaster
  • mp3blaster (to run mp3blaster )
  • press F1 (to add files)
  • browse for mp3 files 
  • select mp3 file, hit enter
  • for more shortcuts press + key  
  • see man page for more details



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Monday, 17 December 2012

Recover Grub2 after installing Windows

Recover Grub2 after installing Windows 

This is another way to recover Grub2 i already wrote a post on recovering grub(Link) so,use the way you like more easier.
So you were enjoying life using Ubuntu and then one day you had to install Windows for that one application your boss makes you use and now no more Ubuntu. When we need a dual boot system it’s always best to install Windows first then Ubuntu due to Windows stripping out the boot loader but what if you have no choice? or a crash that corrupted the boot loader. Boot-repair  to the rescue. 

So what is Boot-Repair?
Its a small graphical tool used to restore access to Ubuntu and other OS’s such as Windows when disaster strikes, it has two basic options.(See Figure)  and follow steps below-
Boot-repair

  •  run Ubuntu  media in live mode.
  •  connect Ubuntu to Internet source
  • open up a terminal and type the following- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
  • click "Recommended repair" and apply.  make sure you leave the "Reinstall GRUB" check-box ticked. Now reboot your system. now you can see GRUB back.