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Some Applications and Troubleshooting for Ubuntu 12 04 1. Installing dropbox in Ubuntu 12.04                    Dropbox installation is not as easy for users behind a proxy. Two major problems seen during dropbox installation are: (i) If dropbox is installed from repositories using apt-get or synaptic or usc, usually a screen appears asking for permission everytime we launch dropbox and most of the times it doesnt launch. (ii)Drobox deamon fails to download and install automatically after dropbox installation.                        The dropbox installation can be easily done as follows. Instead of installing dropbox available in repositories go to dropbox website. Download dropbox for ubuntu 64 bit or 32 bit.Now install this by opening in ubuntu software center or using the following commands: sudo dpkg -i sudo apt-get -f ...

Some Yummy Elementary Applications For those who arent aware Elementary is the top level building block for the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL). The EFLs reached their first stable release almost a year ago, but aside from E17 there havent been very many applications written using these libraries to date. Today I would like to highlight a few applications that are being developed using Python and Elementary that have reached a usable state. Epour - Torrent Client: Epour uses libtorrent as a back end and currently supports all the basic features you need for a functional torrent client. You can pause/resume torrents and it resumes a partially finished torrent just fine. Epour is currently being developed by Kai Huuhko. eCcess - System Tool: eCcess is intended to be a desktop neutral GUI for managing various system tasks. It is still very much a work in progress, but currently it allows you to: Create users Delete users Change a users password Change the current ti...