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MUTT – The Ultimate Mailing Client

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. The current stable public release version is 1.4.2.3; the current development release version is 1.5.21. For more information, refer : http://mutt.org

First of all,

Download Needed files.

Next, Installing Mutt.

for Debian based : $ sudo apt-get install mutt urlview
for RPM based : $ sudo yum install mutt urlview

Thats it, mutt is installed, next you need to have a .muttrc configuration file now. Firstly execute following commands :

$ mkdir ~/.mutt
$ mkdir ~/.mutt/cache
$ mkdir ~/.mutt/cache/{bodies,headers}
$ touch ~/.mutt/certificates

Now look for muttrc file in the tar.gz archive, make changes according to your user,password and set your favourite editor to to compose messages. Place this file into your home directory and rename to .muttrc . Now you’re done, start mutt with :

$ mutt

Basic usage :

enter : To open a message and scroll down in a message
i : To get back to all messages screen
backspace : To scroll up in a message
r : To reply a message
m : To compose
y : To send composed email
left arrow : To go to previous message in reading screen
right arrow : To go to next message in reading screen
c then ? : To go to gmail folder list

That all for now, use “?” at any screen for help menu. Let your mouse, have some sleep ;-).

All email clients suck, this one just sucks less ~ Mutt.
Happy Mutting !

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Fedora 15 (LoveLock) – Things to do after installation

Recently I shifted from ubuntu 11.04 to fedora 15 (64 Bit), the graphics of fedora are pretty nice. As Fedora is redhat based, so its very different from ubuntu and hard to operate likely for basic users. I faced many problem regarding the installing the basic software, I found solutions by searching so hereby I share with everyone.

1) Adobe Flash Player only for 64 bit.

Download ->

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

Extract ->

tar xzvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

Move to mozilla plugins folder ->

su -c 'cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/'

The solution will work only for firefox, if you also use Google Chrome, you need to do an extra step after this

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugin/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins

Restart your browsers and Hope it works.

2) Nvidia Graphic Drivers

First of all, add rpmfusion repositories ->

su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

Install the Driver ->

su -c "yum install -y nvidia-settings nvidia-kmod"

REMEMBER, Do not Reboot, one step left, or you will face a Blank Screen ->

su -c "nvidia-xconfig"

after this to ensure that computer will run properly again, we will recheck ->

sudo gedit /bot/grub/grub.conf

look for rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 in the file, if you found it, then it is okay, otherwise add code in the end of the file and make sure it is not commented ( # is used for comments).

Now you can reboot your machine, use this for configuring your graphic settings ->
su -c "nvidia-xconfig"

3) Broadcom Wireless Drivers

Adding the Repositories, both free and non-free ->

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

Update ->

sudo yum update

Install Wireless Drivers

sudo yum install kmod-wl

Restart your system, Hope this works for you, worked for mine too !

Regards,

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Linux User Group Ludhiana ( LUG )

Howdy,
Recently, I was interviewed for joining of Linux User Group Ludhiana (LUG), which is a group of all the linux users in our College. I am so much excited to Work n’ Learn in this group. Actually this Group is inspiring me to work more hard and making me think more logically. Personally, I really got a good feeling about this Group, so I want to dedicate my time to this Group as much I can, so to promote this Group, Promote The Linux, and everything or everyone related to Open Source. So lets see how it goes on. Hereby, I request everyone studying at GNDE College, who is to willing to work and learn under Linux, Please Join !

Thats all for now !

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