Installing Ubuntu One on Kubuntu 9.10

One of the key new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is Ubuntu One and the ability to sync files into the cloud.  This product is developed by Canonical and functions similarly to Dropbox.  More information can be found on the website including a FAQ.

However, Ubuntu One is not installed as part of a default install of Kubuntu (this is as of the Release Candidate, I don’t know if it might change in release).  This post will help explain how to install Ubuntu One and get it working.

The first I installed Kubuntu and tried to get Ubuntu One working, I did a simple apt-cache search ubuntu | grep one to try and figure out what packages I need to install, however there a couple of packages to install, which ones do I?

• python-ubuntuone-client
• python-ubuntu-one-storageprotocol
• ubunto-one-client
• ubuntu-one-client-gnome
• ubuntuone-client-tools

The first time I just installed ubuntu-one-client but couldn’t get anything to work.  The problem is you need ubuntu-one-client-gnome to install and work.

The problem with installing Ubuntu One are the 42 additional packages that get added as we install a lot of gnome packages.  Below is the list of packages included.

The following extra packages will be installed:
  gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring libgconf2-4 libgcr0 libglade2-0
  libgnome-keyring0 libgp11-0 libidl0 libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1
  liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libprotobuf3 libsexy2
  libstartup-notification0 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxcb-atom1 libxcb-aux0
  libxcb-event1 libxres1 notification-daemon protobuf-compiler python-cairo
  python-configglue python-gnomekeyring python-gtk2 python-notify
  python-openssl python-pam python-protobuf python-pyinotify python-serial
  python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-twisted-names
  python-twisted-web python-ubuntuone-client python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol
  ubuntuone-client
Suggested packages:
  gconf-defaults-service python-gtk2-doc python-numpy python-openssl-doc
  python-openssl-dbg python-pam-dbg python-pyinotify-doc python-psyco
  python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxgtk python-twisted-bin-dbg
  python-tk python-glade2 python-qt3 python-profiler
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring libgconf2-4 libgcr0 libglade2-0
  libgnome-keyring0 libgp11-0 libidl0 libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1
  liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libprotobuf3 libsexy2
  libstartup-notification0 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxcb-atom1 libxcb-aux0
  libxcb-event1 libxres1 notification-daemon protobuf-compiler python-cairo
  python-configglue python-gnomekeyring python-gtk2 python-notify
  python-openssl python-pam python-protobuf python-pyinotify python-serial
  python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core python-twisted-names
  python-twisted-web python-ubuntuone-client python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol
  ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome

 

Once everything is installed launch ubuntuone-client-applet to finish the setup.

Burton Group names Symantec, RSA, and Websense as best DLP vendors

Recently came across an article, from my Google News feed in regards to a recent study about DLP products.

A great point from the article is that DLP is no longer just concerned about monitoring the network and what happens there, there is an even bigger need to monitor data on the endpoint and also on file shares.  Data at Rest (DAR) is only a click away from being Data In Motion (DIM) and needs to be protected just as well.

Another interesting point is the convergence via acquisition that is occurring as the big companies are snapping up the smaller DLP players and integrating them into the existing product suite.

Happy 5th Birthday Ubuntu

I have seen several other posts in regards to Ubuntu 5th birthday and wanted to chime in and say Happy Birthday as well.

I have been using Linux for a long time, I think my first attempt was my sophomore year in college with some form of Red Hat.  Then I ordered some Slackware CDs which came with a stuffed penguin, which I have floating around someplace.

I used Slackware, Debian, and SUSE several times before settling into Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community.  Why did I choose Ubuntu?  Because of the openness in the community and the way a non-coder could contribute back to the distro.  The Ubuntu-Doc welcomed me with open arms as I posted bug reports in bugzilla and finally started hacking away at the docbook files themselves.  Finally when Kubuntu came out I took over as maintainer of the Kubuntu-Docs, which I know co-maintain w/ Richard Johnson.

I think the greatest part about the community that has developed in Ubuntu is the openness in welcome those non-coders into the family.

 

Happy birhtday Ubuntu :0

9 out of 10 firms??? – Really???

Saw this linked from Kevin Rowney, from Symantec, head of the DLP product and wanted to respond.

The article, “Nine out of 10 firms use data leakage prevention tools" and I wanted to respond “Oh Really?”   What exactly is their definition of data leakage tools?  A lot of the companies I work with and talk have no data loss prevention tools and in fact most of them don’t have anything budgeted in regards to these types of tools

A DLP purchase is often times not a budgeted purchase, but something that is driven by a business need and not an IT need.

Interested in DLP, drop me a note

What the Kubuntu Netbook Live CD looks like

In a blog post yesterday, I did a brief review of Kubuntu Netbook edition on my Dell Mini 9.

Today we take a look at the default desktop from the Live CD

 

 

One of the first we notice is the way the desktop is laid out.  By using plasma-netbook we are longer focused on using the Application Launcher to open programs, we utilize the Search and Locate folder along with Favorites. 

To install Kubuntu Netbook Edition, simply click on Install Kubuntu from the Favorites section and install as the rest of the Ubuntu versions.

More posts to follow describing navigation and using the Search and Locate desktop setting.

An Review of Kubuntu Netbook Edition

I have a Dell Mini 9 and use it as my testing machine, and for testing I mean load various operating systems to see how they work on a Netbook.

When the Kubuntu devs announced a version built on the plasma-netbook part of KDE 4.  From the Wiki Page (KubuntuKarmicNetbook):

KDE4 is designed from the ground up to be scalable to many form factors. Many Kubuntu users are already using it in netbook computers. The intent is to make it easy for Kubuntu to just work.

And just working is how things go with Kubuntu Netbook…. One problem in an out of box install on the Dell Mini 9 is the Wireless driver which requires a proprietary driver.  Jockey takes care of installing the driver and after a restart I was able to connect.

One of the things I’ve noticed (and its partly my fault as being a member of the Ubuntu-Docs team) is a lack of documentation.  As it is past String Freeze< I will be using my blog to post documentation with the goal to move it into docbook format for Lucid.

 

More to come

Gotta love the trolls on Slashdot

There is an interesting story linked on slashdot, in regards to Samba 4 and how a Windows Server will be able to join, trust and replicate a Samba based domain controller.

See the whole article here and the summary on how the Samba team and Microsoft worked together.  This is great for Samba and FLOSS as a Windows 2008 R2 server can now be part of a Samba domain.

However the last line of the summary on slashdot is an example of the trolls and a big reason people shudder away from the religion of FLOSS:
“OR it could be a trap”

Seriously folks?  You take good news and turn it to once again make Microsoft the evil software company.  Yes MS is doing this so they can make more money and sell more Windows machines, but guess what, helping out is better then suing them

Deployment Server 7.1 Roadmap

At the Cleveland user group meeting Hugo Parra the PM for Deployment Solution presented the roadmap for DS.

DS 6.X will continue to get changes and support, DS 6.9 SP4 will be released in Q2 2010 including hardware updates, OS Updates, and any fixes to priority defects

DS 7.X Roadmap

7.0 is currently out there

Limited functionality

Not a point solution

7.1 (Code named Avalon)

December release

Will help out in the following questions:

1. DS Servers need to share data and keep in sync’ed
2. Make it easier to manage images and software packages to get to the locations where they are needed
3. Better security roles, more granular, global scoping
4. Provide job status and reports, what machines have pending jobs, how long have they been waiting for a job, which jobs failed/succeeded/etc
5. Smarter jobs with better branch logic, more reusability
6. Dynamic groups and filters
7. Make P2V and V2p transformations more fluid, provide advanced deployment capabilities of virtual machines

Based on the NS 7 (Symantec Management Platform) console, complete integration

PXE support

Will be brought back into DS

A site server will have the option to have the PXE Server service installed on it

PXE updates will occur through the Altiris NS agent

Server Support will be back into DS

Able to do a bare metal build of a server

Single Database, the Symantec_CMDB

No longer use the AClient or DAgent

Everything will run though the NS Agent and the DS Plug-in

DS Portal page

“Home” page for working within DS 7.1

Built on Silverlight

Drag and drop ability within the console

Can Drag jobs to computers, computers to jobs

7.2 (Codenamed Everest)

July 2010 release

MAC support

Thin client support (completely on par with DS 6.9)

Saw a demo of DS 7.1 and it looked really really cool, the DS Portal built on Silverlight was very fast and responsive, liked the drag and drop capability

Would love to hear your thoughts

Windows 7 Install Report

I recently needed to reinstall my main desktop at home.  When my wife started working from home her work only supported Windows XP and the VPN software would only work for some reason on XP.

I’ve been have lots of problems in regards to this machine and as she is no longer working on this machine it provided me a chance to reload the machine to Windows 7.

The machine is a Dell Dimension E510 and has stock everything from Dell except for the wireless PCI card I put in.

This card was the only problem I had driver wise, the cd I had to install was not trusted, so I had to manually accept and install the driver.

Otherwise I’m loving it.

Enabling Ayatana notifications in Kubuntu 9.10

In Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) there is the ability to use two different notification systems, the standard KDE notifications, or the notifications used by the Canonical created notification system Ayatana.

I have been wondering how to enable these notifications for awhilend recently stumbled on a way to enable them.

NOTE: This is in a development release and may change

If you right-click on the Systray and select “System Tray Settings” you will be able to make the change:

Once the System Tray Settings is open, under the section labeled “Pop Up Notices” select which system you would like to use and also the position of these notifications.

 

In my install of Kubuntu Netbook, I have moved the notifications  to the top right