If your extraction left you with file(s) that have multiple underscores or spaces, right-click the file choose Rename. Edit and remove extra spaces and underscores but leave the extension .ttf . This will make it a lot easier to copy these files from the command line as you’ll see in a moment.

Open up your Terminal as Super User (su). I usually just select Applications | System Tools | Terminal Program – Super User Mode

Enter your su password.

At the command prompt, path out to your Desktop directory by entering:

cd /home/name_of_your_homearea/Desktop

*Note: In Linux, case matters, so Desktop must have the capital D.

*Note: Enter the exact name of your home area after /home/

To copy the ttf files to your fonts area, enter this at the command line:

cp name_of_file_you_downloaded.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

If you are wanting to copy and entire folder to the fonts area, at the command prompt enter

cp /home/name_of_your_homearea/Desktop/folder_name /usr/share/fonts/truetype -r

*Note: There is a space after cp and after the folder name in the command line

You will have to restart your computer for the changes to go into effect but that’s it!

If you want to check and make sure the files are successfully copied over, open your file explorer and path up (usually it will default open in your home area, so you’ll need to use File | Open Parent a few times to get all the way to the top of the file structure. From the top (double-click Computer and choose Filesystem), path out to usr/share/fonts/truetype and you should see all your fonts including the newly copied ones.

*Note: If you can’t see certain directories, they may be hidden. To view hidden files and folders, select View | Show Hidden from your Explorer window.

Interested in installing the Microsoft fonts to your Linux system in one quick download? Check out this fab tutorial by Mark Sanborn.

First download the latest deb package of KompoZer to your Desktop.

Next, open up your Terminal as Super User (su). I usually just select Applications | System Tools | Terminal Program – Super User Mode

Enter your su password. Now, lets install the package with gdebi by entering gdebi plus the path to the downloaded file at the command line. Press the Enter key to begin the install.

gdebi /home/your_home_folder_name/Desktop/name_of_file_you_downloaded

See an example of my entry at the command line and the name /location of the downloaded file – click the image to enlarge. Remember, Unix/Linux based system are case sensitive, so Desktop has to be capitalized in your command line.

Now you will see gdebi unpacking the file and checking for dependancies. It will display the author’s description of the package. And it will ask if you want to install KompoZer. Enter Y and press the Enter key.

Now it will do the actual install. When it’s done, and Terminal returns to the command prompt, type logout to exit Terminal. Click image for a larger screenshot:

That’s it! Kompozer is now installed! I found the icon for it under Applications | Internet.

Now, how to use it, right?! From the fine folks on the sourceforge forums for this app, sessileoak posted some links to two guides. Check them out here:

And for everything you ever needed for installing, setting up, and building the perfect debian lenny system can be found in this awesome tutorial by falco on the How To Forge site. Many thanks to falco – all kudos and good karma to you for your great instruction.

Within Debian or other Linux system, open a Terminal Window in Super User Mode (root). From the command line, we must first download the key and then install the key. Type the following at the command line:

wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add – apt-get update

Now, we add in the google repository of software for linux. Open sources.list by typing sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list at the command prompt.

Then, add these lines at the bottom of the file:

# Google goodies
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

After editing this file and save it by using the CTRL-X to close sources.list.

then use apt as usual, for example, first update the packages list by typing:

apt-get update

And after updating the packages list, if you want to install Picasa, type:

apt-get install picasa