Run Windows Software in Linux with PlayOnLinux

As we are very much familiar with the windows software, we always tend to use that software only, whether we are working on Linux or on any other OS. And this can be possible by using Wine any many other alternatives. PlayOnLinux is one of those alternatives with an interface where you can get list of options for applications and you have to just click and easily install it. So it reduces the tedious work. PlayOnLinux uses Wine for its back-end and it plays as a front-end.

You can install the PlayOnLinux from Ubuntu Software Center or you can install it through the terminal:-

       sudo apt-get install playonlinux

You can also install it from the PlayOnLinux website. You have to double click on Ubuntu and then click on the available package to install it. Also there are few commands for your Ubuntu versions, that you can run in your terminal to keep up-to-date with the latest version and this will add the PlayOnLinux software repository in your system.

After it is installed, you can launch the PlayOnLinux by searching it in the dash.

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PlayOnLinux  will start a wizard first for the first time use.

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After that you can see the window of PlayOnLinux with many tabs in it.

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To install any applications you need to click on install and then you can see the Installation Menu Window where different categories are provided as you can see in the below fig. You can select the category and then the application under that and just click on Install button.

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The application will install by starting a wizard.

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That's it your application is downloaded and installed.

You can use the other tabs like configuration and shortcut also. In configuration tab, you can configure the packages that you have installed. And at shortcut tab, you can create a shortcut for the application in the desktop that you have installed.

Enjoy using PlayOnLinux

How to Tweet from Linux Terminal

Twitter is a great social networking site and many of us has being addicted to it. But as on twitter we mostly do tweeting which is a text part so why not we tweet while we're working in the Linux terminal .It's quite of fun.

You can do this with Twidge. Twidge is a terminal client for microblogging sites such as Twitter. Twidge is a simple Twitter client for the Linux command line. There are also some other command line Twitter clients, but Twidge is simple and easy to install.

Twidge is available in the 11.10 repositories so if you are using 11.10 version then simply installs it by the following command:-

    sudo apt-get install twidge

Or you can download it from Ubuntu software centre.

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But if you are using any other version of Ubuntu, you need to manually add the repositories for Twidge.

Do the following commands:-

    sudo gedit /etc/apt/source.list

Append the following line at the end of the text

    deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main

Save this repository to your source.list to be able to download Twidge. Then you can install it from the command line. Run the following commands:-

    sudo apt-get update

  

    sudo apt-get install twidge

Now after installing Twidge, you have to do the set up of Twidge. You can do this by the following command:-

  

     twidge setup

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As shown in above fig, Twidge setup will generate an URL for the authentication. Copy that URL and paste it in your browser, then it will ask you for your login stuffs, just login and it will generate an authentication code. Now you have to just enter the generated authentication code in your terminal and enter and then you are done. After that you can get ready to tweet.

To update your status you can run the following command:-

       twidge update

And then type your status. The status should be of 140 characters limit that much Twidge allows.

You can check your replies by the following command:-

 

       twidge lsreplies

You can check the recent updates by the following command:-

 

       twidge lsrecent

There are many other commands for follow, unfollow. For that you can check into man pages by following command

    man twidge

Or, you can use lscommands to see the full list of commands at a glance.

   twidge lscommands.

Have fun with the new style of updating your twitter.