Download the Essential Codecs package from the mplayers homepage http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Unzip and move to the directory: /usr/local/lib/codecs (create if it does not exist, need to use SUDO command)

Then run these two lines of code:
cd ~/.gnome2/totem-addons
for file in /usr/local/lib/codecs/* ; do ln -sf $file && chmod +r $file ; done

http://www.skeedz.com/lamp.php

A tipsheet for how to get XGL running on Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/Xgl

LAMPP instructions:

Download.
run command: sudo tar -xvzf xampp-linux-1.5.2.tar.gz -C /opt
run command: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
run command: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security
edit php.ini to have a output_buffering value of 4096

Download Sound Juicer

Make sure multiverse is available

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

edit Sound Jucier settings
Add a profile
For Gstreamerpipline have:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc bitrate=128

Save and exit Sound Juicer

add
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse

To the repos and then download:
libxine-extracodecs

Restart Amarok

To make wireless card bootup automatically

edit /etc/network/interfaces
add:
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-mode managed
wireless-essid ’ssid goes here’
wireless-key ‘key goes here’

eth1 is your network interface
essid is your network ssid

To get fonts to show up on flash you must run:

sudo apt-get install gsfonts gsfonts-x11

and restart firefox

Disable IPv6 for Kubuntu/Ubuntu

1. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases (or your preferred text editor)
2. Find the line: alias net-pf-10 ipv6
3. Edit this to: alias net-pf-10 off
4. Save the file and reboot

This is how you change the default windows manager for linux…

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm or gdm