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Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG - the Gnu Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.

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Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE.

Compiz Features

Easily extendible through plugins.

A growing, friendly community of users.

Increases productivity and enjoyment.

Impress your family and friends.

Compiz is actively developed.

Requirements

The bare minimum is 3D capable Graphic’s card and atleast 512 MB of ram.

Install Compiz in Debian

#apt-get install compiz

this will install compiz along with its dependencies.

Configuring Compiz

Now you need to manually edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

#vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then added these two lines under the “Screen” section

Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps”
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “true”

then added these lines under “Device”

Option “AllowGLXWithComposite” “true”
Option “RenderAccel” “true”

added one line under “Server Layout”

Option “AIGLX” “on”

Finally at the end of the file add these lines

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection

After making the following chages you need to save and exit the file.

Add “compiz –replace” to “Desktop -> Preferences -> Sessions -> Startup Programs”.

Now restart the Xserver, Better is to restart the whole system.

After you login you will directly be in a compizified environment.

This HOWTO will describe how to install uTorrent on your Debian Linux desktop using wine and how to get a more suitable tray icon using alltray.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

µTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows with many features.

First of all we need to add a new repo for this you need to edit the sources.list file

#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this to the end of the file, save and quit:

deb http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian/ ./
deb-src http://eclipxe.com.mx/debian ./

Update the source list using the following command

# apt-get update

Now we will install Wine and Alltray

# apt-get install alltray wine

Download latest µTorrent from here

create a dir using the following command

#mkdir utorrent

go in to the utorrent directory

#cd utorrent

#wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.6.1/utorrent.exe

Get icon using the following command

#wget http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5093/utorrenteh8.png

Now we will create a menu entry for uTorrent, so su to root again:

# vi /usr/share/applications/utorrent.desktop

You should now have an empty file, copy and paste this (and replace “USERNAME” with your actual username:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=uTorrent
GenericName=BitTorrent Client
Icon=/home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png
Exec=alltray --icon /home/”USERNAME”/.utorrent/utorrenteh8.png wine /home/”USERNAME”/utorrent/utorrent.exe
Path=
Terminal=false
MimeType=
Categories=Application;Network;

Save the file and exit.

You need to provide the Exe path according to where you want to keep utorrent .exe file

To refresh gnome-panel, issue this command

killall gnome-panel

µTorrent should now be found in the “Applications—>Internet” menu.

ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple ‘virtual’ FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.

phpftpwho is a program written in PHP that tells you the status of your local FTP server. It uses the unix/linux command ftpwho and formats and displays the information. The program is licensed under the GPL license.

phpftpwho Requirements

A webserver, Apache is a great one.

A recent version of PHP.

The FTP server Proftpd.

A Unix/Linux operating system.

Install Apache Webserver with PHP Support

If you want to install Apache Webserver with PHP Support check here

Install Proftpd Server

If you want to Install Proftpd Server check here

Install phpftpwho

Note :- phpftpwho must be installed on the same machine that is running Proftpd server.

Download phpftpwho from here using the following command in apache web server root document folder (/var/www)

#wget http://www.rivetcode.com/files/phpftpwho/phpftpwho-0_9.tar.gz

Now you have tar.gz file you need to extract using the following command

tar xzvf phpftpwho-0_9.tar.gz

Now you should be having phpftpwho folder in your apache root document folder(/var/www)

If you want to access your phpftpwho program you need to go to http://yourserverip/phpftpwho

Now you need to login into the ftp server and refresh your phpftpwho page you should see similar to the following screen

Security configuration

If you want to configure security for phpftpwho you need to create a .htaccess file under phpftpwho folder in /var/www/ so that any one who is trying to access this page it will prompt for username and password.

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.

OTRS Requirements

Apache Web server
Mysql or Postgresql Database
Perl 5.8,Perl Modules

Install OTRS in debian

If you want to install otrs in debian sarge you need to use the following command

#apt-get install otrs

If you want to install otrs in debian etch you need to use the following command

#apt-get install otrs2

This will start the installation process and if you want to configure database using dbconfig-common you need to select yes in the following screen and press enter in this example i am configuring using dbconfig-common.

Now you need to select which database you want to use in this example i am using Mysql database select ok and press enter

You need to enter the database administrative user password select ok and press enter

Now you need to enter the mysql application password for otrs select ok and press enter

This will complete the installation.

Now you need to access otrs using the following URL

http://your server ip/otrs/index.pl for admin access

You should see the following screen

Now you need to use the following username and password to login

Username :- root@localhost

Password :- root

Once you login in to the otrs you should see the following screen

If you want to give customer interface use the following url

http://your server ip/otrs/customer.pl

Now if you want to know how to use otrs you need to check otrs documentation

Possible Error and Solution

When you try to access http://your server ip/otrs/index.pl to login you can see the following error

Problem

no connection to syslog available - /dev/log is not a socket at /usr/share/otrs//Kernel/System/Log/SysLog.pm line 64

Solution

Edit the /usr/share/otrs/Kernel/Config/Defaults.pm file and un comment the following lines

$Self->{’LogModule’} = ‘Kernel::System::Log::File’;
$Self->{’LogModule::SysLog::Facility’} = ‘user’;
$Self->{’LogModule::LogFile::Date’} = 0;

Restart your apache web server using the folloing command

#/etc/init.d/apache2 restart